COLOPHON: "Colophon/afterword number one-hundred-twenty-one Jettison those jim-jams and stretch out on your big old Ottoman to enjoy this 121st book made pretty much by Hand using passé technology. Paintings can be ideas as Nutty as apples and words paint with alphabets shifting Softly as a floating Owl changes its way on a tailwind in An autumn orchard. There are 125 copies of this book Prominently press-numbered below. Different kinds of Paper from Europe & Japan were used, some hand made Last summer here in Perry Township Usa by the printer's Elder daughter. Regretting bookstore indifference, your Serious written inquiries should be addressed directly to Post Box Seventeen·Mount Horeb·Wisconsin 53572"
From the Prospectus: "Ostensibly, a children's book concerning apples via the paintings and poems. More than apparently there is a tête-à-tête agenda concerning 'admission of structure' which is an attempt to show how books grow from idea to artifact. Right off, the unfinished-looking front cover is Not glued down and two of the seven signatures are left uncut and untrimmed, replete with colorbars, etc.! There are many 'unexpected, open hearted' surprises to delight the receptive and confound the costive. A nifty counterpointing of '...still and measured and austere... against the playful activity [gives] a peaceful energy in this on.' The painter's ten-year-old granddaughter had a look and said 'cool' so we are believing increasingly in our endeavor. An absolute pedagogical necessity for the children of all well-to-do graphic designers!..."