2007 Raucous Auction
to benefit the VABC
October 26 5:30-8 p.m.
Virginia Arts of the Book Center
Admission free ($5 per person suggested minimum donation)
Wine and subtler refreshments
Hors d'oeuvres
Schedule:
6 PM. First Auction begins.
7 PM Second Auction begins.
7:45 PM. Silent Auction ends.
See what is currently scheduled for auction, silent auction, and for sale at the upcoming event.
 Apartment in Paris |
 “Nude Woman Imploring the Heavens” |
- One week for two in apartment in Paris!
An apartment in the 8th arrondissement (central Paris). Range of available dates: mid-November through January 1; March 1 through 10 (UVa Spring Break); March 19 through April 1st. Details on the apartment here.
(2nd Auction, opening bid $500)
- Rare Book School class (1st Auction, opening bid $300)
- “Nude Woman Imploring the Heavens” by Dean Dass, 2007. Pencil, ink, gouache. Dimensions: 10"x14", framed 14"x20" (2nd Auction, opening bid $300)
- Hesitant Ruin—VABC collaborative project featuring work by etching, letterpress, polymer, and blockcut work by the current artists of the VABC. (2nd Auction, opening bid $250)
- Cautionary Tale portfolio: VABC collaborative project featuring etching, letterpress, polymer, and blockcut work by Josef Beery, Bonnie Bernstein, John Bylander, Dean Dass, Johanna Drucker, Barbara Heritage, Angie Hogan, Karen Kevorkian, John McCarthy, Kevin McFadden, Jessie Merriam, Kelsey Mosley, Frank Riccio, Maggie Sullivan. Original artworks on Rives paper. (2nd Auction, opening bid $250)
- Gift pack from the Art Box. The Art Box’s Beautiful Bouquet of Papers and Bookmaking Supplies. A stunning collection of supplies for the book artist: fine papers, book cloth, needs, beeswax, awl, bone folder, binder’s tape and thread. (Opening bid, $50)
- Four professionally framed prints from the Creation portfolio: Josef Beery’s “Creation” (1st Auction, bid $100) ; Anne Chesnut’s “Genesis” (1st Auction, bid $100); Dean Dass’s “Achilles Strophe” (2nd Auction, bid $100); and Johanna Drucker’s “Eve”; framing by Creative Framing (2nd Auction, bid $100)
- Restaurant de Athrow—Hand-bound artist book by Kristin Adolfson. Menus (last meals) of every executed offender on Texas Department of Criminal Justice Death Row since 1982 until 2002. Includes the executed offender's photo (if available), inmate number, day of execution, last meal request, and their last words before being executed. 10.5 x 14" black vellum with debossed title on cover, red silk ribbon page marker, 307 pages. (2nd Auction, opening bid $100)
- Set of framed prints by Josef Beery: Cautionary Tale "The Restoration" and Hesitant Ruin "Liberty"(2nd Auction, opening bid $75)
- Sappho’s Fragments. A portfolio of fragments translated and grouped for this edition by Anne Carson and letterpressed by VABC artist Karen Kevorkian. (1st Auction, opening bid $130)
- Gods and Monsters! Three signed, hardcover editions of the most recent Susan Tyler Hitchcock books: Geography of Religion (2004), Mad Mary Lamb (2005), and Frankenstein: A Cultural History (2007). (Retail $80, opening bid $40, 2nd auction)
- History of the/my Wor(l)d, by Johanna Drucker. Recently re-issued from a letterpress original. The combination of typographic innovation, visual puns and linguistic play make this aritst’s book autobiography a classic. (Opening bid, $50)
- Five aquatints by John McCarthy: “Pomegranates,” “Six Quinces,” “Daybreak Song,” “Rivanna Nocturne,” and “Ghost Tulips.” Auctioned separately. (Opening bids $30)
- Make Me a Letterpressed Poster! Advertise your public event or private function with a specially letterpressed edition by the VABC apprentices, Jessie and Patrick. Your bid will secure an edition of fifty letterpressed 3-color posters or handbills: you supply the content (just the facts, 50 words max) and they’ll do the rest. No design input whatsoever…let go, and let them make you an attractive announcement that stands out. (Opening bid, $50)
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A weekend in historic downtown Charleston, walking distance to everywhere, during the week of the Spoleto Festival May 23 – June 8, 2008. During this arts festival (music, dance, theater productions) it is almost impossible to find a place downtown. Choose to stay with your host in the house or insist on the place all to yourself. Lots going on with Spoleto and Charleston is so beautiful in May. (opening bid, $100)
- Creation portfolio: VABC collaborative project featuring etching, letterpress, polymer, and blockcut work by Kristin Adolfson, Barbara Heritage, Sarah Stein, Maggie Sullivan, and Adam Wolpa. Original artworks on handmade paper. (opening bids, $30)
- The 2007 Jamestowne Suite: signed copy of Jamestown: The Buried Truth by William M. Kelso; “New Perspectives on Jamestown” 5-CD audio set; and limited edition “Good Newes from Virginia” — portfolio of facsimile and translation of the first published verse in English written in North America (suggested opening bid $40)
- Furious Flower broadside set: 23 poems from a landmark conference. Featuring letterpressed poems by African American poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, and Sonia Sanchez. (opening bid $35)
- Hiatus: a signed broadside of a poem by Lisa Russ Spaar. Created by a class at the VABC. (suggested opening bid $25)
- Luck’s Shining Child: a signed poetry broadside and commemorative jacket by former Virginia Poet Laureate George Garrett. (suggested opening bid $25)
- Is: a signed, framed poetry broadside by Kevin McFadden, the first poem in his forthcoming book Hardscrabble
(March 08). (suggested opening bid $25)
- Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. A large broadside of the document that engendered First Amendment rights regarding freedom of religion and expression. Great gift for teachers, lawyers, or historians. (suggested opening bid $20)
- Companion Poems: a poetry broadside of two poems by Cherryl Floyd-Miller. Winner of the Companion Poems poetry contest, designed by Kristin Adolfson, printed by Angie Hogand and Kevin McFadden. (suggested opening bid $20)
- First Night 2000: a signed poetry broadside by Elton Glaser. Created by a class at the VABC. (suggested opening bid $10)
- Dolly Sonnet, a poem by Gail Wronsky, from her book Poems for Infidels. Created by Karen Kevorkian. (suggested opening bid $10)
- Little Big Form Comic Poetry Chapbook: a VABC Press limited edition letterpressed collection of humorous poems. Winning selections from the On-in-Ten Comic Poetry Contest, including poems by Browning Porter, George Garrett, and R.H.W. Dillard. (suggested opening bid $10)
- The Century of Artists’ Books, by Johanna Drucker. With details of more than 200 artworks, outlining their relationship to a variety of art movements of the last century. (Suggested opening bid, $18)
- “Fragment” watercolor. [forthcoming]
- Social Cue Cards—“Out on the Town” edition: Useful and discreet sentiments for wallets and purses. Literary quotes on the back! ($8)
- Card sets ($12-$15) and individual cards ($2-$5)
- Marbled papers ($1-2 sheets)
