My Letter to the Troops

Book with 18 linoleum cuts and one poem by Jim Dine printed in letterpress, one additional linoleum cut on the cover; book design by Jim Dine and Michael Woolworth; published 2016; 64 pages; with slipcase

The linoleum cuts represent (in order of appearance):

The artist, a skull, Marc Moyano, Kathy Kuehn, Diana Michener, Ruth Lingen, Julien Torhy, Pinocchio, Nancy Geary, Nina Dine, Jason Treffry, Michael Woolworth, Marc Mader, Julia D'Amario, Olympe Racana-Weiler, Daniel Clarke, Vincent Katz, and Aldo Crommelynck

Dimensions

Book: 16 3/4 × 12 1/2 x 9/16 (42.5 × 31.8 × 1.5)

Slipcase: 17 1/8 x 12 13/16 x 15/16 (43.5 × 32.2 × 2.3)

Inscriptions

Numbered and signed "Jim Dine" (on colophon)

Edition and proofs

40, 8 AP, 7 PP

Publisher

Michael Woolworth Publications, Paris

Printers and workshops

Marc Moyano and Julien Torhy at Atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris (linoleum cuts); S.A.I.G., L'Haÿ-les-Roses (letterpress); Reliure du Centre, Limoges (binding); Stéphanie Dumont, Ivry-sur-Seine (slipcase)

Working period

2015 (poem)-September 2016

Printing order

1.   Black, letterpress

2.   Black, linoleum plates (linoleum cut)

Type and paper

Baskerville on Arches Vellum 200 gsm paper

Binding

Thread sewn softcover with French flaps

Whereabouts

Essen (ed. 15/40)

Literature

About the Love of Printing, fig. 10-17, p. 223

Comments

Trade edition differing in format and design published in 2019 by Steidl, Göttingen (cat. no. 629).

The poem "My Letter to the Troops" was also published in 2020 in A Song at Twilight (cat, no. 634).