Warblers

Jonathan Skinner

IN PRINT. Albion Books Series 3, Volume 2. Published in December of 2010 in an edition of 120 copies, of which the first twenty are signed by the author. Cover stock off-cuts courtesy of Logos Graphics and San Francisco Center for the Book.

I wanted this book to be a tribute to the birds Jonathan writes about with such precision, ingenuity, love and wit. So I modeled the colors after those of the Prothonotary Warbler, images of which I use for the half-title and title pages. I also liked the idea of the reader having to “hunt” for the book’s author and title, since, as Jonathan writes, “warblers are restless, hard to see, and give you a crick in the neck.”