Hunter-Gatherer: Family Musiness, Mario

Korf, Mario [author]
Hunter-gatherer : family business, Mario / [Mario Korf] ; Kumi Korf
Spec. N7433.4.K69 H86 2002 fol.
(Easton, Pa. : Published by the Experimental Printmaking Institute and the David Bishop Skillman Library, Lafayette College, c2002)
[9] folded leaves : col. ill. ; 21 x 35 cm. in a box 23 x 36 cm.

• In free verse.
• "Text and the original video stills by Mario Korf, a freediver/hunter-gatherer living on the Pacific Coast in California" -- Colophon.
• "Calligraphy on the title page by Kumi Korf. Intaglio plates by Kumi Korf, printed by Christa Wolf at Rikka Press, Ithaca, NY, on Copperplate Hahnemuhle paper. Digital images printed onto the intaglio prints by Chris Tague at the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College. Garamond type set by Michael and Winifred Bixler and printed by Brad Benedict, Blacks Corner Letterpress. Binding design by Kumi Korf. Edition bound by Beth Sica ... There are sixteen books and four artist proofs in the edition" -- Colophon.
• Unfolded cover measures 21 x 123 cm.
• One edge of each folded leaf is tacked with thread to a thin metal dowel and sewn through an accordion-pleated spine. Pulling on a brown string attached to the colophon leaf (leaf 9, a double leaf that does not unfold) will expand the spine to lay the leaves flatter.
• Spec copy: No. 1 of 16; signed by Kumi Korf.
• Spec copy: Full brown silk boards; cover has printed paper label; fastened by an arrowhead stone clasp; in a drop-spine box.
• Spec copy: Accompanied by 1 leaf in plastic covering ("How to open and close the book"); biography/book description (2 leaves); and note from Kumi Korf to Anne Posega (originally laid in).