Heidi
Over the years I’ve done a bunch of one-off books, booklets, flyers. Not intended for printing presses, but rather single hand-made copies. Just for the love of it, not intended for sale. In fact, it’s the way I started making books.
I posted the first one here — made in 1965 — on April 14, 2026, and this is the 2nd one, done maybe a year later, consisting of six pages.
On a weekend, Sarah and I and our son Peter, age 5, had gone to spend the weekend with some friends at their country shack in Mariposa County (in Yosemite territory). We also took along Heidi, one of Peter’s friends.
One morning I went out in a field with my camera. I was sitting on a rock when Heidi came across the field and engaged me in a game of hide and seek.
Heidi, where are you now? (She would be about 60 years old.)
I’m gonna start posting excerpts from some of these books here. All the subsequent ones are larger; below are a bunch of them. Many of them were from my road trips.









JB Bryan - La Alameda Press instigator/designer says he wishes we’d solely gone the route of hand-produced books. So nice to hear your admiration of all of your book made to give away over the years. Solidarity.
Yes please to more of your books! 📚