Cover title; Leaves are accordion folded; ... letterpress printed with Goudy and Garamont types on Rives Lightweight and folded into covers of Kuzuryu Green, an endsheet of olive dyed paper, and a label printed on Hagakure Brown. Text, design, and reduction linoleum cuts by Catherine Michaelis. One hundred seventy-five copies printed and bound --Colophon; Rare Books has copy 33, signed by the author/artist, Signed by the author/artist
This accordion fold book is a shaped book in the manner of the child's game of cutting paper garlands. Each page is shaped like a dress with paper tabs at the sholders like paper dolls have. These references to childhood games contribute to the content of the short story printed along the base of each page telling of a memory Michaelis has of watching her mother get dressed for a party. Each side of each cut-out is made of a different patterned paper and edged with lace. Issued in hand-made silver paper portfolio., Signed by the artist
First part of title consists of three Cherokee syllabary characters; The Cherokee (Tsalagi) syllabary was invented by Sequoyah ... --Leaf [16];Edition limited to 100 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Bound in Mexican bark paper made by the Otomi. The pages are Rives Heavyweight printed on a C & P platen press. The types are Garamont Light and Franklin gothic;Rare Books has copy no. 77, signed by the artist, Signed by the artist
![[go-we-li] book : a Cherokee primer / Catherine Michaelis](/thumbnails/h/8/oregondigital-df70bw98h.jpg "[go-we-li] book : a Cherokee primer / Catherine Michaelis")
