$125 standard item # 23ST
	$250 special item # 23SP

                                    The Intruder, Clayton Schanilec, Midnight Paper Sales, 2004.

My brother Clayton and I have been fishing together all of our lives: most always amiably, and always with an edge of brotherly competitiveness. In The Intruder, Clayton’s para nymph, a determined fellow named Blake, takes the ultimate step for a fisherman:

Quickly he uncinched his boots and pulled them off, yanked his waders down over his hips, and then off one foot, hopping madly to keep from falling when he loosened the second foot. The sox required two quick tugs. He pulled three shirts over his head in one motion only to fumble with the buttons of one. Glancing left and right to make certain he was alone, he shoved his jeans to the ground and stepped out naked toward his prize.

The text was handset by Franny Bannen with Monotype Emerson originally cast for New York Revisited (The Grolier Club, 2002). The type was redistributed into the case by her and then re-set for The Intruder. I have added a three-page, 5 x 13 inch panoramic engraving of Clayton (mercifully fully clothed) fishing his favorite pool. The panorama was printed in four colors on gray Hahnemuhle Ingres paper. A 2-color cover engraving was printed with a split-fountain technique on black Hahnemuhle Ingres for the covers of the book, and a little 3-color vignette of the Intruder’s “plug” adorns the title page.

Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper in an edition of 146 copies. 120 copies are bound in quarter blue Cialux cloth, with printed paper over boards and a paper title label printed with gold ink on black Arches cover. Enclosed in a slipcase. 26 special copies are quarter bound in leather by Gregor Campbell and contained in a clamshell box with a separate portfolio of inkjet facsimiles of working materials.


   5 x 71/2 inches. 32 pages.

   Clayton fishing his favorite pool.