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Brian and I printed the pages for the book on a Pearl 7" X 11" letterpress printing press made in 1898. The printing took place over a three week period in the summer of 1971. John Carroll let us use his printing press and showed us how to use it. Without his printing press and guidance the book would not have happened. Thank you John. The cover is an original print that I produced of the old 1937 Chevy pickup in the driveway at John Carroll's home. The pickup set out in front of the garage were the press was and I was lucky enough to borrow a super wide lens and photographed it. I made all the prints for the plates and the original silver gelatin print for the covers. The cover prints are fiber base, double weight, matt surface, Luminos B&W paper developed in Dektol. By my standards today the original silver gelatin prints for the cover are very good but the reproductions in the book are low quality. I am not sure why the reproductions inside the book are low quality. It could be my prints made for the plates where not as good as they should be or it may have been the plates made by the Abilene Reporter-News, either way I was only 19 when the book was made. I had no exposure to fine prints by 1971; that would happen about a year later. I made the majority of the photographs for the book as they are about 70% Byron's and 30% Brian's. I do not remember why Brian's name was first in the copyright notice. It may have been he set the type for that page. Brian and I purchased the paper and ink and shared the printing on the old printing press. We also assembled the books and stapled them together. I do not remember what we sold them for back then but I do remember we did not sell all of them. That is why I have three left for sale now.
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Mail shipping with insurance in the USA. Please note: by purchasing any original, you are NOT purchasing rights to the image or rights to reproduce the image. All copyrights remain under the artists ownership.
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