A Moon Book |
When Hak began work on the pages for
A Moon Book in 1961, we were living in our apartment-gallery, "The
One Flight Up," on St. Marks Place in New York. It was printed
in an edition of 500, photo-offset, by Bill Dalzell. Bill was the printer
for Liberation magazine, the official publication of the Fellowship
of Reconciliation, edited by the wonderful and inspiring A. J. Muste,
minister, war resister and humanitarian.
(Hak did a beautiful drawing for one of Liberation's covers, will try to find it.) Bill brought the pages over from his print shop in a child's red wagon. We put it together, cutting out and pasting the moons that were to be done that way. We stitched it with black embroidery thread in the Japanese style. Copies were sold from our gallery and shops in the area including the 8th Street Bookstore on the corner of Macdougal, and Frances Steloff's Gotham Book Mart. About 400 were sold, we have about 100 left, still unbound. All the drawings were pen and ink on white glossy paper cut from the wide, blank edges of Vogue magazines. These direct, unplanned drawings are part of the spirit of the times. JEV, 5-7-07 |
