Current Merchandise Catalog
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The Playwright broadsheet
Format: Broadsheet signed by Kealan Patrick Burke and George A. Walker
Number of Copies: 200
Availability: AvailableSummary: THE PLAYWRIGHT was hand printed in a limited edition of 200 signed copies. The paper used is Arches Velin Cream 100% rag paper. Printing was done by George A. Walker on a Vandercook SP15 letterpress. The broadsheet was made by incorporating a 1910 Royal Barlock typewriter font, Irish Runes, a woodcut of a typewriter and blind embossing. A translation of the runes will reveal a quote from Homer’s Iliad the ancient Greek poem. Each sheet is signed by Kealan and George.
Past Merchandise Catalog
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A Is 4 Alice
Format: Book
Availability: Please contact your local bookseller. View more details for seller links.Summary: Twenty-six magical images gleaned from almost two hundred wood engravings made by George A. Walker for extremely rare editions of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) published by Cheshire Cat Press in 1988 and 1998, respectively.
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Book of Hours: A Wordless Novel Told in 99 Wood Engravings
Format: Book
Availability: Please contact your local bookseller. View more details for seller links.Summary: In the Book of Hours, award-winning wood engraver George A. Walker creates a modern-day, secular devotional that captures in narrative imagery what is too devastating for words: the individual moments of innocence and routine life that ended with the onslaught of 9/11.
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The Life and Times of Conrad Black: A Wordless Biography
Format: Book
Availability: Please contact your local bookseller. View more details for seller links.Summary: Master engraver George A. Walker presents The Life and Times of Conrad Black, a wordless biography of the Canadian-born media mogul. With 100 stunning woodcuts, Walker affords readers a glimpse of Black as a child, as a successful businessman, as a British peer, and as a convicted felon.
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The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson
Format: Book
Availability: Please contact your local bookseller. View more details for seller links.Summary: In master engraver George A. Walker’s newest work, The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson, the circumstances surrounding the death and disappearance of the iconic Canadian artist are explored through some one hundred and nine wood engravings, creating a work that eulogizes not only the artist himself, but the struggle of the artist’s attempt to express himself while constrained by society, the reality of the moment, and mortality.
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The Woodcut Artist's Handbook: Techniques and Tools for Relief Printmaking
Format: Book
Availability: Please contact your local bookseller. View more details for seller links.Summary: The history of woodcuts goes back more than a thousand years. Working carefully and with great precision, the woodcut artist carves a mirror image of a design on wood or other suitable material. The design is then inked and pressed against paper. The technique allows the artist to create an almost unlimited number of impressions of the same work. The precision of the work and the ability of the artist to create multiple impressions allow many fine woodcut artists to create pieces at a reasonable price, which an average collector can afford.
The Woodcut Artist's Handbook provides the basics of this craft with a detailed analysis of its tools and media. This improved second edition features two new chapters that teach artists step by step how to make an engraving and linocut. Artists can improve and develop considerable skill in this art by following these instructions and the author's professional tips. Beginners and advanced woodcutters and collectors will gain a deeper understanding of and appreciation for this craft and art.
This profusely illustrated book is ideal for artists, printmakers, designers and collectors.
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The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook: A Biography in 80 Wood Engravings
Format: Book
Availability: Please contact your local bookseller. View more details for seller links.Summary: The Wordless Leonard Cohen Songbook is a graphic retrospective of Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen's career. Consisting of 80 black and white wood engravings, the book was crafted by master engraver George A. Walker in honour of Cohen's 80th birthday.
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Written in Wood: Three Wordless Graphic Narratives
Format: Book
Availability: Please contact your local bookseller. View more details for seller links.Summary: A cold case from 1917, the tragic cost of the events of 9/11, and the rise and fall of a media baron. These are the themes as imagined by George Walker in his three wordless contemporary narratives -- The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson, The Book of Hours and Conrad Black -- told in wood engravings.
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Graphic Witness: Four Wordless Graphic Novels
Format: Book
Availability: Please contact your local bookseller. View more details for seller links.Summary: Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by four great 20th-century woodcut artists European and North American. The stories they tell reflect the political and social issues of their times as well as the broader issues that are still relevant today.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll, Engravings by George A. Walker
Format: Book
Availability: Please contact your local bookseller. View more details for seller links.Summary: In 1980, George A. Walker was all of nineteen years old and starting his first year at the Ontario College of Art when printmaking instructor Bill Poole approached him with a crazy idea: to create ninety-six wood engravings for Poole’s limited, letterpress edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The project took ten years to complete and only 177 volumes were ever made. It was the very first entirely Canadian publication of Carroll’s beloved classic.
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Neil Gaiman's 8 Rules for Writing broadside
Format: Broadside signed by Neil Gaiman and George Walker
Number of Copies: 251
Availability: SOLD OUTSummary: The Gaiman broadside titled “Eight Rules of Writing" was printed in a limited edition of 251 copies on a Vandercook SP15 proof press. The paper is 10" X 22” Stonehenge Rising white 250gm with a deckle edge on the top and bottom edges. This paper is machine-made in the United States, from 100% cotton fibers and is acid-free making this an archival print suitable for framing. This print will give the owner years of enjoyment free of fading and decay that is the usually the fate of most pulp papers made from trees.
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Neil Gaiman's 8 Rules for Writing poster
Format: Poster
Number of Copies: 500
Availability: SOLD OUTSummary: By Neil Gaiman. Artwork by Keith Minnion. Biting Dog Press did not accept orders for this; it was available to booksellers only.
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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
by Edgar Allan Poe, Engravings by George A. Walker
Format #1: Book - Regular edition
Number of Copies: 60
Availability: SOLD OUT
Format #2: Book - Boxed edition with deluxe slipcase
Number of Copies: 10
Availability: SOLD OUTSummary: Each book features blind stamping on the front and gold on the spine. Edgar Allen Poe's name is on the front cover in gold the rest of the cover design is blind stamped. 60 copies are full bound in chestnut brown and the 10 special deluxe copies are bound in black leather with slip cases. There are 32 pages that measure 7" X 9.75" (18 X 24 cm) Each book is signed and numbered by the artist George A. Walker.
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The Rhyme Maidens
by Neil Gaiman, Engravings by George A. Walker
Format #1: Broadside - Regular edition
Number of Copies: 250
Availability: SOLD OUT
Format #2: Broadside - Folio edition
Number of Copies: 50
Availability: SOLD OUT
Format #3: Broadside - Ultra edition
Number of Copies: 10
Availability: SOLD OUTSummary: These hand-printed broadsheets were made in celebration of the wedding of Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer. The poem was written by Neil Gaiman about the night before their wedding. Fifty unique folios contain two versions of the same broadsheet: a proof copy and the final edition that were printed in a limited edition of 250. The wood engravings were made by George A.Walker who also designed and hand-printed the whole project in the winter of 2012.
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Images from the Neocerebellum
The Wood Engravings of George A. Walker
Format: Book
Availability: Please contact your local bookseller. View more details for seller links.Summary: George A. Walker is an award-winning wood engraver, book artist, teacher, author and illustrator. In this new collection, he presents wood engravings inspired by dreams.
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The Transformed Mouse
by Jack Ketchum, Engravings by George A. Walker
Format #1: Book - Numbered edition
Number of Copies: 250
Price: $100.00 plus $10 UPS insured shipping
Availability: SOLD OUT
Format #2: Book - Lettered edition
Number of Copies: 26
Price: $225.00 plus $10 UPS insured shipping
Availability: SOLD OUTSummary: Written by Jack Ketchum with wood engravings by George Walker and an introduction by Nancy Collins. Signed by all contributors.
The numbered copies will be limited to 250 copies, all hand made, bound in suede. The book will be hotstamped on the front with a mouse's tail hanging out that can be used for a page marker. All the prints are woodcuts printed on Japanese paper.
The lettered edition will be traycased, bound in Japanese silk with a hand drawn sketch by George Walker on the inside page. Limited to 26 copies A-Z.
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Untitled
Hand printed by George A. Walker
Format: Unbound Chapbook
Number of Copies: 200
Availability: SOLD OUTSummary: No summary available.
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The Inverted Line
Written & Illustrated by George A. Walker
Format: Trade Paperback
Availability: Please contact your local bookseller. View more details for seller links.Summary: Printed on acid-free Zephyr Antique laid. Smyth sewn into sixteen page signatures with hand-tipped endleaves, front and back.
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Making A Chair
Broadside commissioned by Neil Gaiman for his 2011 Christmas Card
Format: Broadside
Number of Copies: Limited to 300 copies, 150 made available for sale.
Price: $45.00
Availability: SOLD OUTSummary: 11" x 15" letterpress, 2 color, embossed. Printed on handmade paper. Signed by Neil Gaiman.
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Snow Glass Apples
Written by Neil Gaiman, Engravings by George A. Walker
Format #1: Numbered Copies
Number of Copies: 250 Numbered
Availability: SOLD OUT
Format #2: Boxed Presentation Copies
Number of Copies: 10
Availability: SOLD OUT
Summary: A young princess … her skin as white as snow … her hair as black as coal ... her lips as red as blood … an innocent young girl victimized by her evil stepmother.
Or is she?
Neil Gaiman’s “Snow, Glass, Apples” turns the traditional “Snow White” fairytale on its head and tells the story from the point of view of the “wicked” stepmother, who knows the truth about this less-than-innocent girl and attempts to save the kingdom from her unnatural and monstrous stepdaughter.
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Murder Mysteries
Written by Neil Gaiman, Engravings by George A. Walker
Format #1: Numbered Copies
Number of Copies: 250 Numbered
Availability: SOLD OUT
Format #2: Boxed Presentation Copies
Number of Copies: 10
Availability: SOLD OUT
Summary: In Heaven's City of Angels before the fall, the first crime has been committed: an Angel has been murdered. While the Angelic Hosts labor to create the universe, one of their number is mysteriously slain by one of their own. Raguel, Angel of Vengeance, is commanded to discover both motive and murderer...
While in contemporary Los Angeles, an Englishman learns a dark story of love and consequences.
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The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe, Engravings by George A. Walker
Number of Copies: 65 Numbered
Availability: SOLD OUTSummary: Hand carved images, letterpress with foil stamped handmade paper cover.
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A Writer's Prayer
by Neil Gaiman, Engravings by George A. Walker
Number of Copies: 150
Availability: SOLD OUTSummary: These were commissioned by Neil Gaiman as gifts for friends; none were made available to the public. One of these sold for $900.00 in an art gallery.
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The Curse of the Baskervilles
Engravings by George A. Walker
Format: Broadside
Number of Copies: 221
Availability: SOLD OUTSummary: This limited edition was not made available to the public, however there are a few artist proofs left for purchase.
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The Resurrection and the Life
by Brian Keene, Engravings by George A. Walker
Format #1: Ultra Edition
Number of Copies: Limited to 15 copies, only 10 were made for sale.
Availability: SOLD OUT
Format #2: Lettered Edition
Number of Copies: 52
Availability: SOLD OUT
Format #3: Numbered Edition
Number of Copies: 250
Availability: SOLD OUT
Format #4: P/C Copies
Number of Copies: 50 copies total of which 30 went to author, publisher and artist.
Availability: SOLD OUTSummary: When Jesus of Nazareth gets word that his old friend Lazarus has died, he risks everything to return to Bethany and bring his old friend back to life. But even as he faces murderous priests and betrayal at the hands of his own disciples, Jesus must also battle another enemy . . . Ob, Lord of the Siqquism, who is determined to bring forth The Rising.