The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk-Up, 2014

6.75" X 8.75" (17cm X 22cm)
linen hardcover
digital offset printing
printed in Dalton, Mass by the Studley Press
First edition of 200  

Charles Johnstone and Heather Malesson’s deftly designed book The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk-Up explores the allure of a pulp fiction narrative, “The Blonde” using a Raymond Chandler excerpt from Farewell My Lovely and nineteen-forties design elements to set the tone "It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. She was wearing street clothes that looked black and white, and a hat to match and she was a little haughty, but not too much. Whatever you needed, wherever you happened to be-she had it." The book mirrors his previous self-published title Libby based on his muse and long time collaborator. - David Strettell