Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2001. Poems by American poet laureate Hecht and intaglios by Michael Kuch form a series of 12 fold-out triptychs. 8 x 15. In a black silk tri-fold binding which supports the unfolded sheets. A red window in the upper cover reveals the half-title. Fine in slipcase... More
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2001. 8 x 15. Ten poems by Hecht and 25 intaglios by Kuch appear in a series of 12 fold-out triptychs. In a black silk tri-fold binding which supports the fold-out sheets. A red window in the upper cover reveals the half-title. WITH an extra suite... More
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2004. 18 x 14. 24 leaves. A satiric "natural history." Ten plates (13 1/2 x 9 1/2) are etched with images of the beasts, their common names & binomial nomenclature. The etchings are hand colored by Kuch, in the tradition of natural history books. A description... More
Hadley: Double Elephant Press, 2006. 17 x 12. Poetry, lithographs, and etchings by Michael Kuch retell the Biblical story of Samson from Delilah's point of view. The book's images refer to and play upon well-known works of art. The upper cover has a collage of a temple with marbled paper... More
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2002. 11 1/2 x 15. 42 leaves: fourteen poems printed letterpress and twenty-one etchings, mostly in color. Three of the images are large, foldout etchings; two of the images are repeated, making a total of 23 etchings. The binding suggests the former World Trade Towers on... More
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2002. Two volumes. 11 1/2 x 15. 42 leaves: fourteen poems printed letterpress and twenty-one etchings, mostly in color. Three of the images are large, foldout etchings; two of the images are repeated, making a total of 23 etchings. The binding suggests the former World Trade... More
Hadley: Double Elephant Press, 2007. 15 x 13. Eight chapters each headed by a poem, and followed by five intaglios, "explore the inner landscape of memory, thought & dream." Each leaf suspends from lengths of twine attached to a copper-ribbed spine at the top of the book, which is cloth... More
NY: Double Elephant Press, 1998. 8 1/4 x 9 1/2. A double accordion-fold of 34 leaves: 17 leaves for Gluttons and 17 for Angels, mounted back--to-back and hinged with linen. There are 29 copper-plate etchings: those for Gluttons in shades of brown & rust; Angels in gold, green, and blue... More
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 2014. 9 x 11 1/2. 29 leaves: there are 13 relief etchings (including the calligraphy) with hand painted marginalia, around a passe partout, revealing the 13 mezzotints of invented martyrs. Bound in molded boardcovered in more relief etchings and edged with copper. In copper-lined black cloth... More
Northampton: Double Elephant Press, 1994. 8 x 8. Half title, title, 7 pages of text with wood engravings, 28 color etchings with tissue guards. One etching (in black) is a double fold out. Bound by Shoshannah Wineberg in green marbled paper over boards, red morocco spine label & tips, in... More
(Northampton), 1999. A figure seated within a large clockwork mechanism is drawn by two buffalo reaping wheat. The colors are ochre, orange, vermillion, blues, greens, and purple. Pastel measures 9 1/2 x 13 1/2 and is tipped to a larger mat. Signed "Kuch 1999." Fine. Kuch creates his book images... More
Asparagus Valley (Hadley): Double Elephant Press, 2004. 7 1/2 x 10. 16 leaves, 6 of which fold out plus a coded spinning wheel. Printed throughout with woodcuts and chiaroscuro woodcuts in several colors on Japanese handmade paper. Bound by Mark Tomlinson in Shannon Brock's flax fiber wraps printed with a.... More
(Northampton) Oxingale Press, 2000. 11 1/2 x 11 1/2. 34 leaves with sixteen color etchings by Michael Kuch. Bound by Claudia Cohen in lemon-colored cloth & her pastepaper boards with an additional etching inset into upper cover. This deluxe set is accompanied by four cloth-bound portfolios, containing: (1) a CD of... More
