A Lily's Wrath by Carl Krow

ONLY 25 COPIES WITH A PRINT / The color of the cover will be randomly selected

This edition includes one large risograph print on Awagami paper, and every copy is made entirely by hand—no shortcuts, no automation, no distance between maker and object. The result is something you don’t just read, but hold: a book where every step is intentional and fully lived.

Inside, the pages are risograph printed with Japanese soy ink on Awagami, Washi, and recycled papers. The binding follows the traditional Japanese stab-binding method, sewn with waxed thread, while the covers are built from hand-cut and hand-glued Noren hemp fabric, screen printed with acrylic ink—materials and processes chosen for their texture, weight, and presence.

Noren—those cloth dividers you see at the entrances of bathhouses, restaurants, and inns—aren’t only practical. They act like a psychological threshold: you pass through, and something subtly shifts, like crossing under a temple gate into a different rhythm of breath and attention. This book is conceived in that spirit—a small portal—while remaining one-of-a-kind, with fabric colors that vary from copy to copy, sent at random.