The mappist
By: Barry Lopez ; images by Charles Hobson.
Contributors: Hobson, Charles, 1943-; Hobson, Charles, 1943-, inscriber.; Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-, inscriber.; Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-; Pacific Editions.; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Pacific Editions
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [San Francisco]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 17
Notes: "The Mappist, Barry Lopez's multi-layered short story, has been made into a limited edition of forty-eight copies in the summer and fall of 2005. Images of hands ... have been reproduced as digital pigment prints on transparent film. Each book has been assembled using original USGS maps for the concertina binding and selected pages, and the cover has been wrapped with a reproduction of a 1911 map of Bogotá from the collection of the Library of Congress. Landscape images and the image of pencils on the adjacent page have been created as monotypes with pastel and printed as digital pigment prints. The text has been printed letterpress by Les Ferriss on BFK Rives using a Garamond Narrow typeface. John DeMerritt made the slipcase and board covers with the assistance of Kris Langan. The book design and images have been created by Charles Hobson who assembled the book with the assitance of Alice Shaw"--Colophon.

"Barry Lopez's story, "The Mappist," appeared in "Light Action in the Caribbean" (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000) and is reproduced here with his kind permission and encouragement"--Colophon.

Leaves of plates are of illustrated transparent film; color ill. are mounted and interspersed in text; pages [11-12] are without the text of the story and composed of a USGS map that has mounted col. ill. recto and verso made from transparent film. Issued in brown faux-wood slipcase with metal label holder and label, mounted on slipcase spine, with title and author printed on label. Slipcase within another corrugated slipcase along with a sheet laid in, "Some suggestions for looking at The Mappist."

LC copy signed on colophon page by Barry Lopez and Charles Hoban.

LC copy numbered "17/48."