Mountain Dream Tarot: 1st Edition

$2000

This deck the original limited edition photographic deck from 1975. Cards are offset printed on heavy coated stock and are encased in a burgundy paper covered box. (4 x 5 x .75″) Free shipping in the continental USA. Email us for estimate for all other orders.

Mountain Dream Tarot 1st Edition

Hanged Man T-Shirt

$10

100% Cotton Only available in Extra Large.

This limited edition tee features The Hanged Man from the 1975 Mountain Dream Tarot. Special Sales Price on the last few shirts!

Mountain Dream Tarot: 3rd Edition

$35

This deck is based on the original unique hand colored photographic deck from 1975. Cards are digitally printed on heavy coated stock and are encased in a drawstring bag. (2.75 x 4.75 x 1″) $4 shipping in the continental USA. Email us for estimate for all other orders.

New edition of Mountain Dream Tarot cards!.

Tarot Press Sheet Combo

$50

The complete Higher Arcana from 2001 edition, distributed over two press sheets which also include the Cup images. While supplies last, we will include a 1975 vintage press sheet containing fourteen of the Higher Arcana images. This set of three press sheets comes rolled in a tube. Shipped free in the continental USA. Email us for shipping estimates otherwise.

Create your own Higher Arcana from the 2001 press sheets.

Dante Enters Hell

$30

This version of Dante’s Inferno has been written using photographs of peoples’ surnames from gravestones.

Eight page double sided accordion book in a slipcase.

Knights of Assisi: A Journey Through the Tarot

$10

1990, 24pp., 17 full color plates, 8.5”square, softbound with dust jacket

Shot in Assisi, Italy, this features hand colored portraits based upon the Tarot cards. Full color dust jacket & decorative end-papers with the look of the pink rock walls of Italy.

Original Mountain Dream Tarot Press Sheet: Swords

$25

Offset printed on coated cover stock in 1975. 15 x 19”

This is the press sheet that has the 3 of Swords used as disc icon on Bruce Springsteen’s Magic. Ideal for framing. It will be shipped in a mailing tube.

Original Mountain Dream Tarot Press Sheet: Higher Arcana

$25

Offset printed on coated cover stock in 1975. 15 x 19”

This press sheet includes 14 of the 22 named cards. Ideal for framing. It will be shipped in a mailing tube.

THE OBSERVER: My Constant Companion

Spiral bound book 3” x 5”

$30

In 2005, Nettles produced this palm-sized book at the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia with her portraits at every decade, from a girl of ten to a woman in her fifties. The eyes are cut out to reveal alternately the young eyes in the older face, then the older eyes in the younger face. It is a humorous, jarring, but truthful study of the process of aging

Portraits from 5 decades.

PLACE

Four booklets in a slipcase

$40

American history is written using last names from gravestones that serve as nouns, verbs and adjectives. Slipcase measures 10″ square, each booklet is printed front and back and unfolds to 9 x 18.” Digital offset on 80lb cover stock.

Books about the history of the North, South, East & West

STONE TURNER: Card Deck

$20

A bridge-sized card deck 3.5 x 2.25” with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are antonyms, ie Polite/Rude.

Surnames that are antonyms.

STONE TURNER: Card Deck

Mini sized boxed set of 52 cards

$15

A mini-sized card deck 1.75 x 2.5” with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are antonyms, ie Polite/Rude.

Surnames that are anotonyms

Stone Turner JR: Card Deck

$20

A second bridge-sized card deck 3.5 x 2.25” with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are antonyms, ie Askew/Straight.

Surnames that are antonyms.

STONE TURNER JR: Card Deck

Mini sized boxed set of 52 cards

$15

A mini-sized card deck 1.75 x 2.5” with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are antonyms, ie Askew/Straight.

More surnames that are antonyms.

Stone Turner Thirds: Card Deck

$20

A third bridge-sized card deck 3.5 x 2.25” with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are antonyms, ie Alas/Bravo.

Surnames that are antonyms.

STONE TURNER THIRDS Card Deck

Mini boxed set of 52 cards

$15

A mini-sized card deck 1.75 x 2.5” with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are antonyms, ie Alas/Bravo.

More surnames that are antonyms!

WORKING CLASS: Card Deck

Boxed set of 52 cards

$20

A bridge-sized card deck 3.5 x 2.25” with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are people’s jobs.

Gravestone surnames that are aptonyms, or people’s jobs.

WORKING CLASS: Card Deck

Mini boxed set of 52 cards

$15

A mini-sized card deck 1.75 x 2.5″ with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are people’s jobs.

Surnames that are aptonyms.

AULD OLD: Card Deck

Boxed set of 52 cards

$20

A bridge-sized card deck 3.5 x 2.25” with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are homonyms.

Gravestone surnames that are homonyms.

AULD OLD: Card Deck

Mini boxed set of 52 cards

$15

A mini-sized card deck 1.75 x 2.5″ with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are homonyms.

Surnames that are homonyms.

FAMOUS PAIR: Card Deck

Boxed set of 52 cards

$20

A bridge-sized card deck 3.5 x 2.25” with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are duos.

Gravestone surnames that are duos.

FAMOUS PAIR: Card Deck

Mini boxed set of 52 cards

$15

A mini-sized card deck 1.75 x 2.5″ with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are duos.

Surnames that are duos.

WRITE RIGHT: Card Deck

Boxed set of 52 cards

$20

A bridge-sized card deck 3.5 x 2.25” with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are homonyms.

Gravestone surnames that are homonyms.

WRITE RIGHT: Card Deck

Mini boxed set of 52 cards

$15

A mini-sized card deck 1.75 x 2.5″ with photographs of last names found on headstones in cemeteries across the USA that are homonyms.

Surnames that are homonyms.

HAWK/DOVE

$125

There are 2 versions of the book (one last copy of this version remains, email for availability.) This open edition version is bound in grey museum board with the title HAWK on one side, and DOVE (reversed) on the other. It’s is a four fold accordion digitally printed on cotton rag paper housed in a white paper wrap. 5.25 x 9.5″ opening to 5.25 x 38″.

Poems of war and peace written in the surnames of Vets found on their gravestones.

Seasonal Special

Collection of 9 titles

$65

Here is an excellent opportunity to acquire a selection of Nettles’ books: Flamingo in the Dark, Complexities, Seasonal Turns, Life’s Lessons, The Skirted Garden, 28 Days, Grace’s Daughter, Turning 50 & Knights of Assisi. Valued at $123 if bought individually. Free shipping in the lower 48 States. Contact us by email for shipping estimates anywhere else.

Collection of nine offset books.

Women’s Lives

Collection of 6 titles

$36

This selection of Nettles’ books focuses on many of the issues faced by women. Included: Life’s Lessons, The Skirted Garden, Complexities, 28 Days, Grace’s Daughter, and Turning 50. $68 value.

Collection of six offset books.

Cooking the Books: A Concise Guide to Bookbinding

$15

Black & White Digital Offset with laminated cover, Spiral Bound, 8.5 x 11”

This easy to follow workbook includes folded, sewn & glued structures, the classic codex, basic boxes and three slipcases.

Stonecipher: A Book of Seasons

Open edition

$25

Poetry about each season written in gravestones that are nouns, verbs and adjectives located in Champaign County, Illinois.

4 page accordion in slipcase.

An Oxbow ABC

Open Edition

$40

2011, An alphabet accordion printed on cotton rag paper and mounted on museum board covers.

Shot at Oxbow, Saugatuck, Michigan during a Paper & Book Intensive conference. Letterforms were found in the trees.

Family Resemblances: 50 Years of Florida Family Portraits

$100

2007, 5.5 x 7.5,” Digital offset. Handbound codex. Cloth covered (leather is sold out). Edition of 10 (four in stock)

Nettles has photographed her family in Florida from the day she got her first camera at age 10 Here she features her family member’s physical looks and investigates the similarities in their personalities. She bound the books by hand.

Seasonal Turns

$10

1998, 4 accordion booklets, 56 duotones, boxed. 3.5×24.5″

The passing of the seasons is represented by accordion books of sequenced photographs, each in a different color, combining evocative landscapes and portraits.

28 Days: A Deck of Cards

2nd edition

$5

1991, 28 cards, duotones, boxed 3.5×4.5″

28 cards represent some of the emotions & physical sensations of the menstrual cycle. Medical text and personal statements blend mystery, honesty, & humor, hoping to open discussion on this universal, but practically invisible female experience.

Flamingo In The Dark

$35

1979, 72pp., full color plates, 11″ square, hardbound.

A visual autobiography of over 65 bichromate images created in multi-layered color, predating digitally manipulated photographs by years.

Turning 50

10th Anniversary Edition

$20

1995, 64pp. duotones, 4″x8″ softbound on acid free stock. Tenth Anniversary Edition.

Over 25 photo triptychs & text by Nettles addressing her response to a particular mountain landscape, past memories, and feelings about turning fifty. Out of print for some years, the original press sheets were bound in a new cover celebrating the book’s 10th anniversary.

Complexities: Images & Text

$15

1992, 48pp.,duotones, 10” square, softbound.

To untangle and examine the complex ties that bind many mothers, Nettles blends her experiences of childhood, pregnancy, childbirth, housework, & professional life in layered images and text. She uses intrusions, improvisation, and balancing as the basis for her art that is tightly woven with her life.

Grace’s Daughter

$8

1994, 48pp.,2 colors, 8” square, softbound, laminated.

This book presents a collection of favorite Southern family stories.

Life’s Lessons: A Mother’s Journal

$15

1990, 68pp., duotones, 8.5×11”, softbound.

Photos and text which examine contemporary mother/child relationships and issues of separation, gender, aggression, materialism, and hopes for the future generation.

Of Loss and Love

Vintage 70′s book

$300

1975, 7 x 9.75,” clothbound, offset printed in 4 color.

Nettles personally ran the offset press on this project, using the press expressively, combining her photographs and the poetry of her mother Grace Nettles. Five copies remain out of the edition of 100.

The Nymph of the Highlands

Vintage 70′s book

$200

1974, 4.5 x5.5,” offset & screen printed paper & mylar. Blue tissue overlays. Saddle stitched with “velvet” textured burgundy covers and stitched green vinyl slipcase.

Nettles illustrated this creation story written by her 13 year old sister Connie. Mixed media children’s book printed at the Visual Studies Workshop with additional screen printing in her studio. Edition of 200, eighteen copies remaining.

Dream Pages

Vintage 70′s book

$300

1974, 7.5 x9.5,” offset & screen printed. Encased in a pale yellow machine stitched vinyl slipcase.

Nettles created these images of her dreams using a Haloid Xerox machine at the Visual Studies Workshop where the book was printed. Additional colors were screen printed in her studio. A vintage 70’s book.

The Skirted Garden: 20 Years of Images

$5

1990, 48pp. numerous images, 8.5×11”, softbound

Major themes in her work were celebrated in 1990 with the production of this very affordable book, a research tool that has been widely used by students studying artist’s methods and motivation.