Artists' Books and Zines

Arts Iss Majichk

20 pages of photocopy and collage art in a silkscreen cover.

Slow Graffiti

Two volumes (132, 84 pages, including one sticker sheet) of photographs and a conversation between the artist and the Los Angeles based writer and critic Bruce Hainley, and Sorcery, a photographic comic strip by New York based curator and...

Shift-lab Catalog

An archival catalog demonstrating the work methods of the artist collective called Shift-lab. The sewn 20 page booklet is housed in a cover. The inside back cover is a pocket which contains 5 biographical plates and a promotional card for...

Mobile Phenomena

64 page color illustrated book documenting bookmobiles, mobile forms of commerce, inventive mobile art projects, mobile structures created for use during protest, and some strange applications of mobility that defy easy description...

Everything is a Pyramid Scheme

24 page staple bound zine featuring digital photography and collage. Originally issued as part of the "Zine of the Month" series by Mark Price.

Holy Shmoly 5

32 page staple bound zine featuring graphite drawings and photography. Originally issued as part of the "Zine of the Month" series by Mark Price.

By the River

32 page screen printed zine collecting multi-media works, sketchbook pages, prints, and drawings laying out a saturated and dense vision of the city. Originally issued as part of the "Zine of the Month" series by Mark Price.

Major Players / Team Tricks

32 page staple bound zine featuring graphite and ink drawings. Originally issued as part of the "Zine of the Month" series by Mark Price.

A Day of Plastic

20 pages of drawings. "This book depicts everything I touched in one day that is made of plastic. I am sure I have missed some items, since it is possible for almost anything to have partial plastic content. I did not repeat any objects...

Public Collectors: Paper Blog

38 page staple bound book drawing from the Public Collectors blog on Tumblr. Similar to the blog, each page is a single image-based entry with a short caption explaining where the picture or scan came from. Selections pulled from images...

Holly Holly Hobby Hobby Does Karaoke

Screen printed covers. 26 black and white photocopied pages, including two pages of laser tear-out perforated karaoke call slips. Made in conjunction with OUTLOUD: Artists' Books Performed at the Print Center in Philadelphia on April 3rd...

Today is Our Day

32 page book featuring work by Michael Gerkovich, Bonnie Brenda Scott, Matt Leines, Alex Lukas, Bill McRight, Crystal Stokowski, Jacob Marcinek, Ben Woodward, Anni Altshur, Leah Mackin, Emilia Brintnall, James Ulmer, Kay Healy, Roman...

Listen to the Grand Pastoral Nothing

36 page sewn zine showing the results of a journey of photographs from a cell phone to high contrast xerox format.

Mr. Lupone's Travel Journal

25 page, color illustrated, spiral bound book. This series is an account of a solitary man's wanderings, observing people with an outsider's gaze. He is distanced from family and friends, a network barely held together by infrequent...

Real Raw 6: Trap House

12 page zine stapled in cover. Library copy is number 75 of an edition of 100. Autographed.

So Outta Here 3

48 page hand drawn zine stapled in cover about a transient adventurer seeking the true meaning of "Home." Sometimes fun and sometimes heartbreaking, the slightly autobiographical and part fantasy story follows Skip across state lines...

Ghost Book

Single sheet book, accordion folded in the shape of a house. Library copy is number 23 of an edition of 50.

I Wish

1 sheet, accordion folded and sewn in cover. Printed on a KORS Heidelberg in the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts at The University of the Arts. The cover was printed on a Vandercook SP20. Library copy is number 46 of an edition of...

It is Always Like This

29 pages, color illustrated book documenting a public art collaboration between Temporary Services (Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin & Marc Fischer) and IC-98 (Patrik Soderlund & Visa Suonpaa) during Temporary Services' residency at Sumu...

Penny-Farthing

16 page pamphlet book sewn in cover about a bicycle that crosses treacherous terrain to reach a hot air balloon. Printed in the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts at The University of the Arts. The cover was printed on a Vandercook...

So Outta Here 2

Public Phenomena

148 page color illustrated book documenting the variety of modifications and inventions that people make in public. From roadside memorials to makeshift barriers, people consistently alter shared common spaces to suit their needs, or let...

So Outta Here

40 page hand drawn zine stapled in cover about a transient adventurer seeking the true meaning of "Home." Sometimes fun and sometimes heartbreaking, the slightly autobiographical and part fantasy story follows Skip across state lines...

Public Phenomena: Informal Modifications of Shared Spaces

28 page soft bound color illustrated booklet featuring photos taken in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin between 1998 and 2005. The photos show roadside memorials, parking place savers, block club signs, basketball hoops and a truck in a...

Key Note

28 page staple bound book telling a story blending fact and fiction that spans 250 years. Limited edition.

Ars Botanica: A Collection of Poems

64 page compilation of poems and images inspired by the long tradition of herbariums and botanical books, especially those published in Europe from the 17th Century onward. Poems by: Diane Ackerman, Betty Adcock, Nathalie Anderson, Annie...

House Fire: Remaking Home

26 page hardbound book which tells the story of the artist's experience of losing her home and all her possessions in a house fire. It takes the viewer on a journey of fear and loss followed by the hope of rebuilding place and the feeling...

Chasing the Light

13 folded sheets containing text and photographs, placed in a wrapper. Designed by John Kristensen and Katherine McCanless Ruffin and set in Fairfield and Weiss types in an edition of 300 copies at Firefly Press, Somerville, Massachusetts...

The Elements: A Poem

40 page compilation of poetry and lithograph images inspired by the elements of air, fire, earth and water. The lithographs were hand-pulled by Timothy P. Sheesley, Corridor Press, Otego, New York. The type, Monotype Dante, was cast at the...

Drawn Out

24 page catalog of an exhibition held April 8 - May 13, 2000 at Temporary Services, Chicago, IL. Featuring: "The Ancient Order Guy," Dr. Bronner's Soaps, Rich Mackin, Krista Peel and Tim Donahue, Drawings by Hotel Guests from the...

To Persephone: Poems

37 page compilation of poetry and lithograph images based on the myth of Persephone. The book is housed in a traycase. Includes a folded digital print of a landscape enclosed separately in paper. Poems by: Eavan Boland, Rita Dove, Rachel...

Precessional: Poems

32 page compilation of poetry and lithograph images inspired in part by Greek mythology and by the stars and the gravitational pulls of the sun and moon upon the Earth. The lithographs were hand-pulled by Timothy P. Sheesley and Conrad...

Grace From Simple Stone: Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

44 page compilation of poems and lithograph images inspired by the centenary of the birth of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The lithographs were hand-pulled by Timothy P. Sheesley at Corridor Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The text, set in...

The Library has acquired an eclectic mix of artists’ books, zines and related catalogs in support of the Ursinus College Art Department curriculum. Many of the items represent the work of artists and art collectives based in the Philadelphia region. Most notably, the collection includes several works by Enid Mark, founder of ELM Press. These are finely crafted limited edition artist’s books that feature hand-lithography, letterpress printing, and archival hand binding.

Presented here are images of the titles in the collection. Original items are held in the Founders’ Room of Myrin Library. Please contact the Special Collections department to make an appointment to view the books in person.

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