Forthcoming

Shadow Affair Cover

 

Caveworks Press is pleased to announce the publication of The Shadow Affair, by Julie Russell-Steuart, Spring 2015. Pre-orders are now open while the book is in production. Pre-order here.

The Shadow Affair is a short fiction piece strong on poetic language and visual imagery. On the face of it, a woman encounters her shadow. Underneath, themes of creativity, self-identity, and mystery are wrapped up in a suspenseful narrative voice. A surprise ending awaits the reader, and perhaps, even a shock of recognition.

About the Author

Julie Russell-Steuart is a visual artist and poet making artist’s books and publishing fine press poetry under the Caveworks Press imprint. Her books have been collected by the University of Iowa Special Collections, the Lucille Little Fine Arts Library at the University of Kentucky, and others. Her visual art has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of a grant from the Iowa Arts Council, making this project possible.

Excerpt of The Shadow Affair by Julie Russell-Steuart

Excerpt of The Shadow Affair by Julie Russell-Steuart

Sketch for woman floating by Julie Russell-Steuart
A sketch for one of three wood engravings

 

About the Edition

The text is hand-set in metal types, printed letterpress on archival paper, illustrated with three original wood-engravings and four color stratography or collograph prints, hand-bound in heavy paper wrappers that are printed in silver ink.
6 x 9 1/8 in, 16 unnumbered pages. Edition of 50. $75.00.
The Shadow Affair

Details:
The text is composed in Garamond. Title typefaces are Glyptic and Della Robbia, cast by Skyline Type Foundry. Additional text ornaments and Glyptic drop caps are printed in blue. The paper is Mohawk Superfine in soft white.

The books are bound in a variation of exposed stitch binding with grey Irish Linen thread. Cover paper is So Wool in Blue Jersey, which has bits of wool fibers in it. The cover collograph print is directly from lace fabric.

Presswork is on a Vandercook Universal III proof press at Caveworks Press in Reinbeck, Iowa by Julie Russell-Steuart.

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