Description
Loujon books are never just books. Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb built their books, by hand, one page at a time—layered papers, multiple inks, odd insertions, cork boards, all mixed with a kind of controlled chaos that makes each copy feel constructed rather than printed. Order and Chaos sits right in the middle of that run, produced in Tucson after the New Orleans years, and it carries all of that tactile, obsessive energy.
This is the “Cork Edition”, the “working” edition—1,399 copies—but even here the Webbs couldn’t help themselves: mixed papers, gauze leaves, bold typography, and that unmistakable Loujon feel. The slipcase you see here is standard issue for the edition—what matters is what’s inside and what’s survived with it. And that’s where this copy separates. The large Henry Miller bicycle marketing broadside—roughly poster-sized—is laid-in. It’s a piece that isn’t common.
Jon & Gypsy Lou didn’t just publish books—they made them, and you can feel that in every piece they produced.
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