Contains "Where It Is", an Ursula K. Le Guin story from Always Coming Home, and "Dry Creek Bed – Napa Valley" three photographs by Michael Mundy. Place of publication: San Francisco.
This large pamphlet is made out of eight 22 cm × 57 cm sheets folded in half to form sixteen 22 xm × 28.5 cm folios hand-stitched and knotted with three holes. To the first of these sheets is attached the burgundy cover.
The pamphlet has no page numbers. Worldcat/OCLC states that the book has 18 pages. Taking the front cover as page 1, it appears that this count runs from p. 8 to p. 25. The contents of the pamphlet are as follows:
1. Front cover
2–7 blank
8–9 Title page (spread)
10 blank
11 Dedication: In memoriam Adrian Wilson
12 Photograph signed in pencil "M Mundy"
13 The Roots
14–15 The Roots | and Springs (spread)
16 Photograph signed in pencil "M Mundy"
17 The Roots and Springs
18–19 The Roots and Springs | of the Valley (spread)
20 Photograph signed in pencil "M Mundy"
21 The Roots and Springs | of the Valley
22 The Roots and Springs | of the Valley
23–24 blank
25 Colophon
26–31 blank
32 Back cover
The colophon states:
Publisher's Notes
It has long been the photographer's desire to produce a triptych: three photographs taken quickly, with spontaneity as the effective aesthetic binding agent. This lyrical text by Ursula LeGuin recently and naturally presented itself as the catalyst for his project, and we spent a day last June exploring the Valley to realize Michael's vision. Dry Creek Bed – Napa Valley is the result. The pictures reflect the cool character of the Valley, which had remained enshrouded in fog all morning. About noon, however, the fog lifted, and the sunlight produced light and shadows on the rocks for the first time that day. In addition to our inevitable appreciaton of the Valley's vintages, the single other memorable event of our outing was the apparent affection show to me by an adventuresome, but doomed, wood tick. —James Linden
A Note by the Photographer
The negatives were made rapidly in succesion, with 35-mm Kodak TMAX roll film and a Minolta 7000i camera, hand-held. The camera settings were not changed between pictures. The prints were made on Ilford Multigrade FB paper and affixed to this stock, using the dry-mount technique. Each print is signed. —Michael Mundy
The Edition
This text comprises the entire chapter entitled "Where it is" from Always Coming Home by Ursula K. LeGuin. Reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
Designed & published by James Linden, San Francisco. The types are monotype Centaur and Arrighi, composed by M & H Type. The paper for the text is Rives BFK Heavyweight, and the wrapper is burgundy Curtis Flannel Cover. The presswork is by Julie Holcomb Printers. Klaus-Ulrich Rötzscher executed the binding.
This edition is limited to eighty-seven copies, of which ten copies numbered I through X and two copies hors de commerce are bound with van Heek Brillianta cloth over boards. Each numbered copy is signed on this page by the publisher and by the photographer and contains a separate signed photograph taken in the Napa Valley. The additional photograph is presented on pH-neutral stock.
{{PV|Evertype}}'s copy is one of the 87 unnumbered copies.
