Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: A Story

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed: A Story, by John Irving [John Winslow Irving]; With Artwork by Gilbert Neri. [Las Vegas, Nevada]: Rainmaker Editions, 2005. Autobiographical story/essay by best-selling American writer and academy award-winning screenwriter John Irving. With original imagery by multimedia artist Gilbert Neri who created the torn, burned imagery by placing heated elements on fax paper. These digitized images were then made into photopolymer plates and printed in gunpowder-infused ink.

Designed and printed by Inge Bruggeman at Textura Letterpress Printing, Portland, Oregon. Bound in stiff vellum with pebbled pit leather. Title stamped in brown on upper cover. With gray paper cut-outs over upper and lower tan paper covers. Gray front and back endsheets are made of the same paper as that used for cut-outs. The transparent orange burlap box was produced with visible threads underneath. The spine label is inset.

From the Colophon: “The project required the collaborative efforts of many people across the country. Ann Marie Kennedy made the cover, endsheets, and tan “scrap papers” by hand in her studio in Carrboro, North Carolina. Inge Bruggeman made the boxes, with the assistance of Rachel Wiecking. #7 of 99 numbered copies signed by author and artist.