ALLISON WEINER
IMPRINT COORDINATION BY KATHERINE CASE
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2009
Edition of 100
20 pages
Letterpress printed
4x4"
2 color; text with illustrations
3-hole pamphlet stitch binding sewn with hand-spun rabbit fur thread and paper slipcase enclosure
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Rabbitpox, written and illustrated by Allison Weiner, casts rabbits as the heroes and the pawns in a tale of biological warfare. The story is inspired by a 2004 Harper's Magazine item describing American scientists as having engineered extra-lethal forms of mousepox, cowpox and, of course, rabbitpox. Allison's book combines text, inventive design, and diagrammatic illustrations with a whole lot of personality to find humor, absurdity, and alarm at the dark extremes of biological science. The type in Rabbitpox was hand set in Century Schoolbook and printed on a Vandercook proof press by Allison, Pam DeLuco and SFCB's generous volunteers. Each book is housed in a handmade box and bound with thread spun by Pam from the fur of her pet rabbit Charisma, a white German Angora who reportedly had a show career.