Becoming Flight, by Paul Zarzyski
The Heavy Duty Guide to Ornithology

Illustrated by Tom Stack, Foreword by Gennie Nord

9 1/2″ x 5 1/4″ x 1/2″, 92 pages. The letters that make the words that make the five poems are made of lead, cast into Linotype 10-point Century Expanded mats by a Model C Intertype Linecasting Machine. The titles and subtitles are hand-set lead foundry types, both Morris Benton’s Century Expanded and Whedon Davis’s Whedons Gothic. Sixteen illustrations printed from engravings manufactured by Royal Graphix in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Printed, without impression, by two hands and one foot with a 1960’s era flatbed cylinder proof press printed in black, sky blue, and grass green ink on Classic Crest 80 lb Super Smooth Text paper in St. Francis, Wisconsin. Six tabular throw-out pages of Hahnemuhle Bugra, each of a different color, envelope the poems and sort the illustrations. Pages of a commercially printed, middle-twentieth-century bird atlas function as flysheets, making each copy of the book unique, and unifying the edition. Hand-bound with an exposed coptic stitch into Spanish blue foil-stamped Leatherflex covers, and dressed in a jacket of Hahnemuhle Natur Text, printed with two colors. Limited edition of 125 copies, 60 of which were never bound and have been destroyed, sadly leaving a total of only 65 copies in the great big world.

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