He just wanted to make beautiful books

Kim Merker in 1991 by Robert McCamant

There’s a lovely memorial to Kim Merker, a hand-press printer from Iowa City, in the NY Times this morning. He ran Windhover Press at the University of Iowa and founded the University’s Center for the Book. Here are a few of the books he printed from a nice exhibit about Windhover Press at Okanagan College Library.. (The photo above is by Kim Merker in 1991 by Robert McCamant)

Merker’s Flowers of August

Flowers of August

book by merker and windhover press

Robert the Devil.

Merker’s  “Within the Walls,” by Hilda Doolittle.

“Within the Walls,” by Hilda Doolittle