World without end by Julie Chen

"Special thanks to the following people: to David Turner for fabricating all the wooden elements for this piece; to Bonnie Cohen for fabricating the handmade paper covers; to Diane Jaquier and Bonnie McLeskey for their invaluable assistance in the bindery"--Colophon

"This book was designed, printed & bound by Julie Chen .... It was letterpress printed on a variety of papers, including an assortment of found maps, resulting in each copy being slightly different from every other."--Colophon

Limited ed. of 25 copies, signed and numbered by the artist

The book and stand are housed in a tray built into a clamshell box (39 x 31 x 5 cm.). The box is covered with rust- and sage-colored diamond-figured cloth and lined with quilted, aqua-colored satin

Title from cover

Triangular book fans open, circling back on itself, and fastens front to back to form a diamond-shaped globe. The book-globe is suspended by a metal rod on a crescent-shaped, wooden stand. The text pops forward on printed strips, five to each two-page spread, to form uniform peaks against a backdrop of maps, each overprinted with textual waves. Covers are of handmade paper with twig inclusions. An accordion-folded booklet, attached to the inner box top, shows, through 5 color photographs, the step-by-step assembly

CHMRB copy 39088015314677 is no. 15 of the limited ed

CHMRB copy has the triangular book, metal rod, wooden stand (including the diamond-shaped base with separate crescent-shaped holder), and the booklet of photographs; all housed together in the original green and brown patterned-cloth-covered clamshell box with blue cloth lining, and printed paper labels on the spine and front cover

CHMRB preservation buckram enclosures supported by the Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF) in 2014