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.)

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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.

Two of these (the two on either side of the two boys silhouetted) were 20-30 pages, 14” by 11,”” and hand lettered. With these two, I actually printed two copies at Krishna Copy in San Francisco, on a Canon Laser Copier (the first of the color copy machines, which cost around $60,000). I then had a bookbinder friend glue backing pages together and then bind the two books.