Charles D. Jones is an East Texas legend, a Renaissance man by all measures. This newest book from the author of Honey Bucket Charlie and Chopper Blues attests to that talent and artistic brilliance. Here, beautifully printed and housed in an embossed cloth cover is a retrospective of nearly a half-century of Jones's artwork-drawings and sketches, paintings and prints, and woodcuts that range from blues musicians to modern authors, horses to insects, and flora of East Texas. The range of Jones' work is phenomenal; not only have his works hung in prestigious galleries throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin American, but it has graced numerous book covers, promotional items, and cd-jackets. Readers who come to this work will be amazed at the power and energy, the force with which Jones reckons daily.

"A Forest Insect Alphabet "features fifty-one original woodcuts drawn and cut by Master Printer Charles Jones. Twenty-six of the images are color woodcuts of forest insects chosen to represent each letter of the alphabet and accompanied by twenty-three black and white wood engravings. The book features forest insects important for their beauty, impact on the forest environment and intricate ecology. Jones designed and cut capital letters for each insect name, making them an integral part of the compositions. The colors used for each woodcut are based on those of the named insect. A descriptive poetic quatrain, written by Entomolgist Dr. David Kulhavy, is printed below each color print. The wood engravings also offer a detailed study of the insects and are accompanied by scientific text. Printed on 157 gsm. stock, the book features insects important for their beauty, impact on the forest environment and intricate ecology. The colors used for each woodcut are based on the named insect. The book is 10 inches x 10 inches and comes with an accompanying CD featuring songs about forest insects.

Based on a series of one hundred pen and ink drawings by Captain Benjamin Comeau, a POW at Camp #1 in Korea from 1950-53, Honey Bucket Charlie contains letters Comeau wrote during his time in the prison camp, as well as photographs and interviews with his son, brother, and grandson. From Central Texas, Comeau enlisted in the Marine Corps during World War II, was wounded at Iwo Jima, left the Marine Corps and then joined the army in time for service as an infantryman in the Korean War. He was taken as a POW by the Chinese in November of 1951 and remained a prisoner until June of 1953. Comeau remained in the army and later served a year in Vietnam. He was an extraordinary man who has left us an equally extraordinary group of drawings describing his time as a POW. Honey Bucket Charlie has an introductory chapter by author and scholar Lewis Carlson.

"Chopper Blues" is the apex of a unique evolution: it grows from the script of a mixed media introduction performed live for a body of viscerally intense woodcuts, drawings and paintings first exhibited in East Texas at the Tyler Museum of Art and last honored at the Marine Corps Museum in San Diego, California. Musician, painter, printer, sculptor and maturing poet, Jones sustained the experience which made both these images and this text necessary during the three years he served the Marine Corps, almost all of it as Platoon Commander, Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, this enlistment culminating in his '65-'66 Vietnam duty tour and his combat decoration, the Silver Star.
These poems and prose were originally written to accompany the "Vietnam Suite," 40, 38" x 50 inch multimedia works on paper and an accompanying performance piece entitled "Chopper Blues." However, this limited print edition has been expanded to include drawings from Jones' sketchbook from his time in country, Vietnam, 1965--1966, as well as images from the "Vietnam Suite" and woodcuts from a recent publication, "The Bear Went Over the Mountain, "co-written with a Vietnamese Artist from Hanoi, Dinh Viet Luc. Also included in this spectacular collection are never before published photographs of Jones's tour in Vietnam, photographs of villages and schools that vanished immediately after the camera's flash. Finally, included in this limited printing is a cd of the performance piece, featuring a reading of the poems and songs from the book with original and traditional music performed by the artist and friends.

Features 16 poems by Larry D. Thomas, 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. The seventeen images in this book are from original drawings by Corrine Jones, translated into wood cuts and photopolymer relief plates by Charles Jones. This edition of twenty copies was printed on Somerset Book Wove White. The text is Bell MT type and printed fro polymer plates. Volumes are quarter bound with tan Harmatan leather and printed brown book cloth over boards with printed Bugra end papers.

"Poems: Inside and Out" provides a selection of works by the poet Omar S. Pound, son of Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear Pound. The late Omar Pound was a gifted translator, an authority on Persian poetry, and a gifted poet in his own right.125 copies were hand set in Cloister Old Style type and printed on Somerset and superfine papers. The covers are printed blue book cloth over boards. The images are linoleum cuts by John Daniel and were printed from the original blocks.