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Feeling too big or too small? Is it all too much or not enough? A Treadwell Press Pocket Book of Wonderment offers you a reviving dose of majesty held in the palm of your hand. This folded one-page book series featuring astonishing space phenomena began in 2021 as part of the Quarantine Public Library (QPL) project.

This third installation in the Wonderment series tells the tale of the oldest known Earth rock. Nope, it wasn’t found on the third planet from the sun.

Archival print on 8.5 × 11” paper, folded into an 8 page mini pamphlet. Price includes printing, packaging, shipping and fees.

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Reading Divinations is akin to flipping through a deck of cards (perhaps Tarot), with the front and back of fifteen altered Cabinet Card reproduced at life-size.

Divinations Book Details

• 15 reproductions of Cabinet Cards (front and back)

• Afterward by Rachel Phillips

• 6 x 7.75 inches

• Spiral bound

• Pages, digital offset on acid free cover stock

• Cover, archival pigment print on Stonehenge

• First edition, second printing of 75 copies

• Signed by the artist

• Published in 2016 in Pacifica, California

Permanent Holdings: Texas Women’s University, TX

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Minted: The Nifty NFT Manifesto is written in the voice of a fictional aging archivist and librarian named Madge Cameron, who has long struggled to bridge the analog/digital divide. Cameron leads the reader on a trip down the rabbit hole of what she terms “Financialized Web Land” before popping up on the other side with a renewed appreciation for our material world.

Regular Edition of 125 signed copies: $20 + $5 S&H
Special Edition of 18 signed and numbered sets: (SOLD OUT)

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Permanent Holdings: Harvard University, MA; Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; MassArt, Boston, MA; SFMOMA Library + Archives, CA; Smith College, MA; University of Arizona, AZ; University of Colorado Boulder, CO; University of Iowa, IA; University of Miami, FL; University of Minnesota, MN; University of Utah, UT; University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI; Yale University, CT

Institutional acquisitions: for help with purchasing or to place a book on hold, please contact Rachel

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Each booklet in this three-part set riffs on silent films, creating a montage of fantasy Art Deco architecture, silhouettes, vernacular snapshots and a snippet of writing hinting at plot. The books triangulate between photography, film and theater—mysterious and evocative spaces where stories are told through words and pictures in the dark. The Maquette Edition includes a small theatrical sculpture. Please scroll down for video.

The Theater Maquette Edition Includes:

Three 5x8 inch Risograph printed booklets and one laser cut theater maquette in a 5x8 inch holder with an archival pigment print “slide” on Kozo paper. Housed in two stamped thread and button envelopes.

Black 100% linen envelope with thread and button closure.

Theater Maquette Edition is a signed and numbered edition of 9 + 1 A/P. The booklet sets included in this edition are the last ten sets from the regular edition of 100, numbered 90-100.

Photographed, designed, written and sewn by Rachel Phillips. Printed and bound by Risolve Studios; laser cut by Pagoda Arts.

Permanent Holdings: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA; MassArts, MA; San Diego State University, CA; University of Iowa, IA; Yale University, CT

Available copies remaining in edition: 3

Maquette Edition published in March of 2021, in Pacifica, California.

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CHAIN MAIL is a visual meditation in the form of a postcard pack. Here, ten international artists interpret the theme “Hiding in Plain Sight.”

Artists include Libby Black, Johnnie Chatman, Adam Chin, Binh Danh, Noah Doely, Dan Estabrook, Lezley Saar, Anaïs Tondeur, Ruth van Beek and Vanessa Woods.

Printed on heavyweight card stock with a classy matte finish on the image side, each pack is 4x6 inches and includes the same assortment of 10 images packaged in a sealed clear bag. Images © the respective artists, all rights reserved.

$10 plus $2 shipping/handling/fees

Variety pack featuring 8 new images from the film Beyond the Horizon, incorporating magic lantern slides, vernacular footage and original imagery.

Printed on heavyweight card stock with a classy matte finish on the image side, and subtly distressed lines for writing on the back (for all y’all that are also ter-eeble at writing straight: we see you at Treadwell Press!). Each is 4x6 inches.

Each pack includes the same assortment of 8 images.

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Variety pack featuring 8 new images from legendary archivist Madge Cameron. Incorporating digital artifacts into analog vernacular objects, Cameron considers the ghost in the machine and the by turns delightful and alarming failures of technology to render truth.

Printed on heavyweight card stock with a classy matte finish on the image side, and subtly distressed lines for writing on the back (for all y’all that are also ter-eeble at writing straight: we see you at Treadwell Press!). Each is 4x6 inches.

Each pack includes the same assortment of 8 images.

$10 plus $2 shipping/handling/fees

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Feeling too big or too small? Is it all too much or not enough? A Treadwell Press Pocket Book of Wonderment offers you a reviving dose of majesty held in the palm of your hand.

Print one for every pocket you own!™

Did you know the star Earendel is the oldest, most distant star ever observed by humans thanks to the Webb Telescope? Called a redshift star, its light reached our telescope after being warped (shifted) into the infrared spectrum by the expanding spacetime of the universe.

This one-page book, printed on 8.5x11 inch paper, was inspired by the 2021 Quarantine Public Library (QPL) project.

• Print the Pocket Book of Wonderment: Earendel for FREE

• Find folding instructions for assembling your one-page books

Prefer your reviving dose of majesty already printed and folded? Order a pigment printed version for $5 including shipping through the link below.

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Feeling too big or too small? Is it all too much or not enough? A Treadwell Press Pocket Book of Wonderment offers you a reviving dose of majesty held in the palm of your hand.

Print one for every pocket you own!™

Did you know the asteroid Vesta has the largest known mountain in our solar system?

This one-page book, printed on 8.5x11 inch paper, was part of the 2021 Quarantine Public Library (QPL) project.

• Print the Pocket Book of Wonderment: Vesta for FREE

• Find folding instructions for assembling your one-page books

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Expanded publication of FIXED, featuring the work of artist Rachel Phillips' alter-ego Madge Cameron.

• 32 pages, 14 color plates, autobiographical notes

• Photographs and writing by Rachel Phillips

• Spiral bound, 12x12 inches

• 3D glasses included

• Printed in USA, second printing, 2016

Free USA shipping. Please email for international shipping.

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Each booklet in this three-part set riffs on silent films, creating a montage of fantasy Art Deco architecture, silhouettes, vernacular snapshots and a snippet of writing hinting at plot. The books triangulate between photography, film and theater—mysterious and evocative spaces where stories are told through words and pictures cast in the dark.

Booklet Set Details:

• Three 5x8 inch booklets with 12 pages in each. Risograph printed and saddle stitch bound by Risolve Studio in Pennsylvania

• Cover is ColorPlan Sapphire Blue and pages are Domtar Cougar

• Housed in a custom stamped thread and button envelope

• Signed and numbered limited edition of 100 sets (the last ten sets, numbered 90-100, are reserved for the Theater Maquette Edition)

• Photographed, designed and written by Rachel Phillips

• Published in November of 2020 in Pacifica, California

Permanent Holdings: Mills College, CA; Skidmore College, NY (circulating collection); Texas Women’s University, TX

The regular edition of Ghost Light Theaters is sold out. Three copies of the special edition remain available through the link below.

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