The white maiden male
By: Jeffrey Morin
Contributors: sailorBOYpress; Press and Letterfoundry of Michael & Winifred Bixler
Publisher: sailorBOYpress
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stevens Point, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Gay men; History; Artists' books; Specimens; Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Description: Artist's book presenting the story of Rudolph Brazda who, when he died in 2011, was the last known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps who had been incarcerated because he was a homosexual.
Notes: Colophon: "'The White Maiden' is the tale of a hunter who wishes for the ancient wines of the cellars at Thurnberg in a moment of great thirst. His wish is granted by the White Maiden but, as a result of drinking the wine, she forever plagues him with a sense of wanting, an inability to take satisfaction in anything .... The paper used most commonly in this book is from a private stash of Barcham Green ... Other handmade papers come from collaboration with Lisa Beth Robinson, Brian Borchardt, and Caren Heft. The type is Plantin, cast by Michael and Winifred Bixler's Press and Letterfoundry."

Issued in a limited edition of 50 copies.

Sewn binding of matching heavy brown handmade paper; [linoleum?] print of Buchenwald concentration camp stamped in dark brown on upper cover (same image stamped in white on all pages of text); backstrip covered in pink paper printed with colored stamps of Czechoslovakia.

Issued in lidded aluminum box lined with pink paper, half printed witih colored images of Czech stamps; pink silk ribbon secured to floor of box to enable user to easily lift the book from the box; embossed numbers [Brazda's Buchenwald number?] on box lid.