Desertstones
Subtitle: excerpts from The book of questions: Yaël, Elya, Aely
By: by Edmond Jabès ; translations by Rosmarie Waldrop ; with lithographs by Ed Colker
Contributors: Colker, Ed, 1927-; Waldrop, Rosmarie; Haybarn Press
Publisher: [Haybarn Press]
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Millwood, NY]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Artists' illustrated books
Other titles: Desert stones
Work titles: Livre des questions
Notes: Text pages and plates on French Rives BFK papers. Text typeset in Palatino. The texts printed letterpress by Bradley Hutchinson and the lithographs by Maurice Sanchez at Derrière L'Etoile Studio. Frontispiece printed by Graphics on Canson Mi-Teintes. Images additionally hand colored as pochoir by artist. Each copy contains an insert with a stone fragment from the Negev desert. Laid in paper wrapper with title printed in red on front cover and cutout for stone fragment to pop through. Housed in clamshell box covered in Canapetta cloth.

Pages numbered 1, 3, 5, etc., with content only on one side.

Edition of 50 exemplars.

Rare Book copy: No. 24.

Signed by the translator and artist, in pencil, on the colophon.