$130 item # 26

                                               Old Swayback, Jim Heynen, Midnight Paper Sales, 2006.  26 pages. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches.  128 copies.

The men said it was time to tear down the old barn.  The boys were afraid this was coming.  For years and old mare named Swayback moped around the farm.  When she died, the men started calling the old barn Swayback.  This was not a good sign.

In this, the seventh in the Little Book Series, Jim Heynen writes of an old mare and and older barn.  The mare has died and the barn is soon to go.  The men would like to see it leveled.  The boys are determined to keep it standing. 
The engraving is of Patti & Lowell Moline's old barn, off of county road N.  It has been carved from finished maple half-rounds, and printed on Japanese Paper.  The remainder of the book was printed on Zerkall mould-made paper by Ben Verhoeven and Gaylord Schanilec in the summer of 2006.  The text was hand-set by Julia Hinderlie in Italian Old Style which was cast by Scott King.  Issued in a slipcase.