Close To the Bone
Betty Andrews 1984

This first publication of Ninja Press is a book of short haiku-like poems by California poet, Betty Andrews.

Printed in three colors in Centaur, Arrighi and Goudy Open Italic on Nideggen. The bone image on the title page is from a linoleum block by Carolee Campbell. 275 copies are sewn into a dove-gray paper cover handmade by Harry Reese at Turkey Press. 40 deluxe copies are bound into gray linen-covered boards and include a signed palladium photograph frontispiece by Carolee Campbell. The photograph is hand sensitized and exposed in the sun at Ninja Press. Both editions are signed and numbered.

5.5 inches by 5.5 inches. 8 pages.