New Books

Deep Wood Press. Chad Pastotnik. PO Box 726, Mancelona, MI 49659, USA. Tel: +12315870506. Website: http://www.deepwoodpress.com/.

James Bernard Gross. The LIQUORSTORE pomes. 2024. 109 pages. 25 x 16.5 in. Garamond #3 on Hahnemühle Biblio with 2 wood engravings by Chad Pastotnik. Printed on Vandercook 219 OS. 60 copies: 55 quarter bound in Harmatan Oxblood goat with Asahi heavy textured grey linen cloth over boards with marbled end papers; title foiled in black on spine and in gold on the cover on a brown goat skiver, designed and bound by Chad Pastotnik. Price: $500. 1 variant edition copy bound in full leather in a blue Nouvo goat; tight rounded back with a sprinkled panel binding; title in copper foil on cover along with other accented tooling in copper; housed in a drop spine box with spine label. Price : NFS. With an introduction by Toby Olson and 2 color printing throughout, this book is a collection of 36 poems centered on James’ father Herman Gross, growing up in Gary and Chicago and the Liquor Stores Herman owned. An homage to family, life in the rustbelt in the 1950’s and 60’s and the adventures, joys and hardships that left an enduring charming impression on James. At the author’s wish, the poems are printed on the recto pages only.

Gibraltar Editions. Denise Brady. 5050 Pratt Street, Omaha, NE 68104, USA. Tel: +14022504926. Website: https://www.gibraltareditions.co.

Jane Vincent Taylor. Skylight. 2024. 43 pages. 6.75 x 4.5 in. Bembo on Arches wove text and various papers for endsheets, with an original drawing by Hannah Demma on the her over-beaten abaca paper. Printed on a Vandercook No. 4. 55 copies bound by Denise Brady with a long stitch to sew the signatures into covers of lime green Cave Paper; the title face is 48 pt. Schwabacher printed from a photopolymer plate made by Boxcar Press after a proof of slightly damaged BB&S foundry sorts.. Price: $65. Out of print. Jane Vincent Taylor’s collection “Skylight” is a twenty-four poem narrative told in the voice of a woman — Lu, a teacher and poet — spending her final days in an assisted living facility. Though physically failing, she continues to read, observe, communicate, and dream. Taylor references many literary and visuals artworks in these poems.

Incline Press. Graham Moss. 36 Bow Street Oldham, Lancashire OL1 1SJ, UK. Tel: +44166271966. Website: https://www.inclinepress.com/.

Graham Moss. The Book, The Whole Book and Nothing But. 2024. 32 pages. 220 x 120 mm. Scotch Roman on Zerkall Butten, with 6 reproductions of woodcuts from Jost Amman’s Book of Trades from the 1560’s, 1 reproduction of a drawing from William Hogarth, an advertisement cut of an Arab press (circa 1930), 2 line drawings done for Incline Press, and 1 tipped-in plate facsimile of a broadsheet given to participants at the Society of Bookbinders 50th anniversary conference. Printed on an Arab press. 225 copies bound by Graham and Helen Moss in hardback covers with quarter bound cloth spine, yellow-based marbled paper by Claire Hooson of Marsh Marbling, and a front cover label. Also available in sheets to binders. Price: £60. Contains two essays by Moss about making books by hand at Incline Press. The first is about binding and was written in response to the Lifetime Achievement Award given to the author by the Society of Bookbinders in York during August 2024. The second essay is about Mr. Taberer’s Arab printing press that first came to Incline Press in 1999 and was recently returned after a sojourn in the south.

The Melville Press. Catherine Kanner. 572 Radcliffe Avenue, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272, USA. Tel: +13104899497. Website: https://www.themelvillepress.com.

Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson Poems of Travel. 2024. Foreword by Caroline Kempner Kanner. 84 pages. 8 x 8 in, with 3 foldouts to 32 in. Text printed letterpress by Arthur Larson in Avenir Next on Mohawk Superfine White Paper, with 3 hand-painted prints formatted digitally in the style of Japanese wood block on Moab Entrada Rag Paper. Printed on digital press with archival pigmented inks. 100 copies: handbound by Stephanie Gibbs Bookbinder in full cloth white binding, with title stamped in silver foil on spine and front cover, artwork grain-critical along 8-inch edge, with endpapers of Mohawk Superfine White Paper. Price: $850. Rarely venturing beyond her Amherst home, Emily Dickinson wrote nearly two thousand poems, many set in regions far outside her experience: distant volcanoes, tempestuous seas, heaven. This edition presents selections of these poems of “travel”. The book design is contemporary. Each of three sections, Earth, Sea and Air, commences with an art piece which opens beyond the confines of the book, as Dickinson’s poetic visions expanded beyond the confines of her place and status.

Suntup Editions. Paul Suntup. 101 Stepping Stone, Irvine, CA 92603, USA. Tel: +19495337272. Website: https://suntup.press.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wall-Paper. 2024. 64 pages. 6.25 x 9.25 in. Monotype Baskerville on mouldmade Somerset Book, with 3 multi-block wood engravings by Chris Daunt. Printed on a Heidelberg Cylinder. 366 copies: 340 numbered copies bound at the Suntup Editions bindery in a Millimeter style binding covered in Hahnemühle Bugra Chamois paper with mustard Chieftain Goat trim on the spine and fore edges, letterpress printed cover with a design cast in Monotype ornaments, with cover and spine labels printed letterpress on Hahnemühle Bugra Chamois; housed in a solander enclosure covered in Dubletta cloth with velour lined trays. Price: $325. Out of print. 26 lettered copies on handmade Twinrocker paper, bound by Rosy Gray at Black Cat Bindery, sewn with linen thread, rounded and backed and made on a hollow before being full bound in yellow Pentland goatskin with black embossed leather onlays in terracotta and leaf green, with a terracotta leather title label placed between two raised bands on the spine, and handmade leather head & tail bands; housed in a solander enclosure covered in Dubletta cloth with velour lined trays. Price: $2500. Out of print. Designed, cast in metal and printed by Scott Vile at the Ascensius press in Buxton, Maine. The leather of both the numbered and lettered editions are from J Hewit & Sons.

Atelier Kiss. Ilona Kiss. Csalogany u. 40, Budapest, Hungary1015. Website: www.atelier-kiss-ilona-kiss.hu.

Laurent Grison. Vaporetto. 2020. 4 pages. 220 x 180 mm. Plantin on canvas, with brush paintings and linocuts by Ilona Kiss. Computer printed. 6 copies bound by Kiss in carpet fabric, painted by Kiss, with linocut ‘V’ printed on the front cover. Price: €300. The text is a poem by Laurent Grison (1963-). Vaporettos are the water busses connecting Venice and its islands. The poem is about Venice’s cemetery San Michele. It mentions Ezra, Sergey, and Igor, referring to Pound, Diaghilev and Stravinsky, who have found their resting place there.

Incline Press. Graham Moss. 36 Bow Street Oldham, Lancashire OL1 1SJ, UK. Tel: +44166271966. Website: https://www.inclinepress.com/.

John Payne Collier and Henry Mayhew. Edited by Graham and Helen Moss. Punch & Judy. 2024. 52 pages. 260 x 160 mm. Scotch Roman (cast by Matt McKenzie at his Paekakariki Press, London) on Liber Charta by John Purcell Paper, with 16 multicoloured engravings by Helen Moss. Text printed on an Autovic and images on an Albion, Squintani Model No. 4 and a Victoria. 150 copies (of which 20 are available unbound): 130 bound in house by Graham Moss, with a lino print cover of red stripes and spine cloth in matching red, rounded and backed at the spine with a board and spine letterpress label on yellow paper. Price: £150. Our text begins with an edited show recorded by journalist John Payne Collier in the 1790s. To this illustrated script we have added the earliest known account of a Punch & Judy man, describing his career with all its trials and tribulations, as recorded by Henry Mayhew in 1850.

Bluestem Cottage Press. Julie Baugnet. 3121 Wabenoor Drive, Allouez, WI 54301, USA. Tel: +19203714221. Website: https://jabaugnet.wixsite.com/books/books.

Julie Baugnet. They Say That Fate is in the Stars and That Nothing Can Change Destiny. 2024. 13 pages.10 x 5.5 in. Trebuchet MS 11/14 on Rives BFK (white, tan, and grey), with three full-page screen-printed illustrations by Baugnet. Printed on a Vandercook Universal 1. 11 copies bound by Baugnet in drum leaf binding with semi-soft front and back covers with French Folds, creating a wrapper on the fore edge; imitation gold leaf on the front and various inside pages; end sheets in Revere black; and housed in a slipcase of tan Rives BK with screen-printed patterns. Price: $725.00. Fold out page features William Stafford’s poem, “The Way It Is”.

Abstract Orange. Lauren Emeritz. 1543 44th St NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA. Tel: +12022303532. Website: http://abstractorange.com.

Lauren Emeritz. Civil Rights Act of 1964. 2024. 12 pages. 280 x 178 mm. Wood type on chipboard. Printed on Vandercook. 20 copies bound in a bright green paper wrapper with velcro closure. Price $1200. Based on the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 and created to celebrate the 60th Anniversary.

Corvus Works. Christopher Wakeling. 9 Ravenside Terrace, Blackhill, Consett, Durham DH8 0LB, UK. Tel: +447824397664. Website: https://www.corvusworks.co.uk.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Schneidler–Goethe–Prometheus. 2024. 12+6 pages. 270 x 200 mm. Schneidler-Mediaeval and Legende on Zerkall mould-made 145 gsm, plus Zerkall Ingres (red, orange and buff). Printed on a Phoenix IV Art Platen. 110 copies: 100 sewn into Hahnemühle black wrapper, with red dust jacket printed in black, 4 page folded insert plus 2 single sheet inserts, at Corvus Works. Price: £48. A type specimen of two faces by Ernst Schneidler for the Bauer type foundry in the mid-1930s, Mediaeval and Legende. The main text is set to the words of ‘Prometheus’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Dual language, English in 20pt Legende printed red, German in 20pt Mediaeval printed black. Mediaeval also shown in 16, 24 and 28pt, and Legende in 16pt. 4-page insert showing synopsis of the two typefaces.

Artichoke Editions. Jonathan L. Clark. 550 Mountain View Avenue, Mountain View, CA 9404, USA. Tel: +16509694110. Website: http://www.artichokepress.net.

Joseph Stroud. Letter to Robinson Jeffers. 2024. 11 pages. 335 x 250 mm. Pegasus [Berthold Wolpe] on Cragbourn — rare vintage American paper made circa 1935 on a cylinder-mould machine by Hurlbut Paper Mill (South Lee, MA, est. 1806); a favorite paper of Bruce Rogers and other fine-press printers in the 1930s – with hand-coated inkjet-printed photograph “Hawk Tower, Tor House, 1970” by Jonathan L. Clark. Printed on Vandercook 232P. 30 copies bound by the printer in decorative paper-covered boards with natural linen spine with a cover paper design derived from a photographic image of the stones of Robinson Jeffers’s Hawk Tower. Price: $275. Signed by the author. In his long poem, “Letter to Robinson Jeffers: Big Sur Coast, Winter, 2005”, Joseph Stroud addresses Jeffers’s ghostly presence and finds relevance for our age in the poet’s philosophy, as “the Nightmare of the future as relentless as the surge of the sea is gathering around us”. California poet Joseph Stroud is the author of six books of poetry, including the award-winning “Of This World: New and Selected Poems”. Other honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Witter Bynner Fellowship in Poetry from the Library of Congress, the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature.

Muttons & Nuts. Philip Treble. Calf House Studios, Cold Harbour Farm, Bishop Burton, East Yorkshire HU17 8JF, UK. Tel: +447706146974. Website: https://www.muttonsandnuts.co.uk.

Philip Treble. Pylon 4ZR 25. 2024. 124 pages. 207 x 129 mm. Monotype Bell on Fedrigoni Tintoretto Gesso 140 gsm, with 87 photographs. Printed on Vandercook SP-15. 20 copies handbound by Philip Treble in an asymmetric hardback case binding in letterpress-printed black Windsor full-cloth on the back, and quarter-bound on the front with a letterpress printed side using 135gsm Slate Colorplan. Price: £190. A photo book capturing a year in the life of a pylon in the Yorkshire Wolds, inviting viewers to find beauty in the seemingly mundane. Every time I was at my studio throughout 2022, I would go for a walk to take a photograph of a pylon in a field of wheat. The resulting collection of photographs recorded much more than just the pylon: the changing seasons, the weather, the crops growing, and eventual harvesting.

NewLights Press. Aaron Cohick. PO Box 19781, Louisville, KY 40259, USA. Tel: +14805676894. Website: https://www.newlightspress.com.

Aaron Cohick. Drift • Fragment. 2024. 48 pages. 317.5 x 190.5 mm. Threshold Alphabet on Somerset Book lightweight, with 24 printed and hand-painted double-page spreads using Risograph, sumi ink, gesso, acrylic ink wash, graphite, non-photo-blue pencil, and delamination. 12 copies in sewn-boards binding with cloth spine and painted board wrappers; clamshell box by Adam Bryant with colophon set into the bottom tray. Price: $2500. Drift • Fragment is an editioned, hand-painted text-image poem about reading, memory, time, labor, and rest. Each copy contains the same text but the construction of each page spread varies from book to book, obscuring some fragments and revealing others. The twenty-four double-page spreads track the hours of the day using a changing palette of colors. Three threads of text move through the book, each rendered in a different size of an experimental set of letterforms called the Threshold Alphabet.

Linda Landers Fine Press Books. Linda Landers. 68, Elsham Road, Flat C, London, London W14 8HD, UK. Tel: +447852449021. Website: https://lindalanders.art.

William Blake. Ah! Sunflower! 2023. Accordion fold. 700 x 493 mm. Snell roundhand for colophon on Somerset White Satin 250gsm, with sunflower and poem linocut by Linda Landers and two small etchings after William Blake and a decorative flora and fauna border added. Printed by computer and hand. 10 copies in cloth cover, printed and collaged with linocut and gold leaf, endpapers of hand-stenciled Fabriano, and closure of bone, parchment and ribbon. Made on order. Price: On request.

Abstract Orange. Lauren Emeritz. 1543 44th St NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA. Tel: +1 2022303532. Website: http://abstractorange.com/.

Lauren Emeritz, Abstract Orange. Water. 2024. 44 pages. 280 x 178 mm. Wood type on artist’s handmade paper. Printed on a Vandercook. 20 copies, variable, sewn and glue bound by the artist, price: $1500.

Incline Press. Graham Moss. 36 Bow Street, Oldham, Lancashire OL1 1SJ, UK. Tel: +441616271966. Website: https://www.inclinepress.com/.

John Baskerville and Caroline Archer-Parré. PREFACE. 2024. 10 pages. 270 x195 mm. Three different Baskervilles on Zerkall. Two line blocks – one from a linocut, the other from a steel engraving – by unknown illustrators. Printed on an Autovic. 148 copies: 100 sewn into heavy handmade paper from Two Rivers Paper Mill, commissioned to suit the style of Baskerville as referred to in his invoice book, price £25; 48 hardback with paper over boards, cloth spine, and design in the style of a Roxburgh Club general edition, paper stained deep reddish brown, price: £48 (OP). All work in house.

First Bite Press. Stephanie Kimbro Dolin. 228 Westridge Drive, Portola Valley, CA 94028, USA. Tel: +1 9106195530. Website: https://www.firstbitepress.com.

Miranda Culp and Jef Delman. The Canon of Aphrodisia in Four Volumes. 2024. Ca. 90 pages per volume. 146 x 80 mm. Perpetua and Johanna on Arches Rives Lightweight book with a full-page frontispiece per volume and a frontispiece before each of the 12 stories in the collection, hand-drawn by Laurelin Gilmore, and with ornaments unique to each volume based on the flower and border chosen by the artist for the theme of the volume. Printed on a Vandercook Universal III. 125 copies: 100 hardback in full cloth with stamping on the spine, each volume in the collection a different color, housed in a slipcase of handmade Cave Paper, price: $800; 25 covered in Cave Paper with leather spines (different colored leather for each volume), leather headbands, decorative stamping and titling, hand-marbled endsheets, the 4 full-page frontispieces hand-painted by Laurelin Gilmore, a portfolio in Cave Paper containing 5 hand-printed illustrations not included in the limited edition, housed in a telescoping box with an acrylic window to show the spines, price: $2100. All binding by Amy Borezo. The collection contains 12 erotic stories including Authors’ Notes with historical context following each tale. The authors use erotic scenes as a fresh way to explore familiar character arcs and thematic elements, taking great care to present each tale in the idiom and voice of the original author, so that each story might work on its own terms. The original stories were conceived in a patriarchal, hetero-normative context, but by shining an egalitarian light on each of them, unexpected dynamics emerge.

The Heavy Duty Press. Michael Koppa. E10650 Old HWY 56, Viola, WI 54664, USA. Tel: +1 6086065854. Website: https://heavydutypress.com

Augustine Maxwell Jones. Understanding This Book. 2023. 20 pages. 279 x 229 mm. Franklin Gothic on Hahnemühle Biblio and Hahnemühle Ingres with 4 photographs by Koppa, giclee printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag inside cover. Printed on a Vandercook SP15. 18 copies bound with a pamphlet stitch in Photo Rag 300 gsm, tucked in a Hahnemühle Bugra jacket, stiffened with board, no adhesive, price: $400. Typographical documentation of cleaning and organizing type purchased from a retired commercial printer in 1995, presented in a 20-page book featuring every last sort from nine California job cases of ATF Franklin Gothic typefaces, and arranged according to a variety of strategies only likely to occur when composing metal types by hand.

Muttons & Nuts. Philip Treble 14 Dene Road, Cottingham, East Yorkshire HU16 5PJ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)7706146974. Website: https://www.muttonsandnuts.co.uk/.

Philip Treble. Tints. 2024. 16 pages. 200 x 130 mm. Monotype Grotesque on Mohawk Superfine White Eggshell 148 gsm. Printed on a Vandercook SP-15. 20 copies bound in a single section hardback by Philip Treble using white Windsor book cloth printed letterpress with the title from a laser engraved MDF plate, price: £90. This is a book showing a selection of eight ink colours from Hawthorn Printmaker Supplies and how to tint them using weighed-out ink in ratios of transparent white to base colour. The ratios shown are base colour, 3/1, 10/1, 30/1, 100/1 and 200/1.

Alice Austin Artist Books. Alice Austin. 1024 Carpenter Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147, USA. Website: http://amaustin.com.

Alice Austin. Blanket Bog. 2023. 5 pages. 130 x 155 mm. Garamond on Mohawk Superfine with 8 hand-cut linoleum prints, three of which are reduction prints in multiple colors, by Austin. Printed on a Vandercook SP-15. 25 copies of a five-panel tunnel book, constructed and bound by Austin, price: $700. Evokes a drive through the blanket bog along the west coast of Ireland in County Mayo. A herd of sheep stops the car and the viewer contemplates the hillside, with piles of peat, cut and stacked to dry. Printed from hand-cut linoleum prints, the side panels take the viewer along the road from farmland into the bog. The last panel is a five-color reduction linoleum print of the landscape. The back of the tunnel book has a poem written by the artist about the blanket bog.

Interrobang Letterpress. Michael Babcock. 18 Kenton Road, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, USA. Tel: +1 6176201931. Website: https://interrobangletterpress.com.

Gwendolyn Jensen. We Owe the Dead the Truth. Jerrold Kappes, editor; Tom Tolnay, co-editor. 2023. 120 pages. 216 x 140 mm. Display face is Trump Gravur cast by Rainer Gerstenberg; text is Trump Mediäval set on the Linotype Model 31. The paper is 80T Mohawk Superfine eggshell, with three gesture illustrations by Helen Febbo printed from blocks, one pastel portrait tip-in by Susan Hicks Ford printed inkjet by Stephen Stinehour at Stinehour Editions. Printed on a Vandercook SP15. 200 copies: 125 softcover, French-sewn block, in duplexed Hahnemühle Bugra Blue /Mint green with an Oxford hollow, printed spine, and trimmed flush, price: $75; 75 casebound, quarter bound, flat-backed in Cialux “Slate” cloth and Hahnemühle Bugra Blue paper over boards and Hahnemühle Mint green end sheets with spine labels, price: $125. All handbound in house. Process can be seen here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/interrobang918/albums/72177720297912197. A letterpress printed prospectus is available.

Springtide Press. Jessica Spring. 818 N. Yakima Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98403, USA. Tel: +1 2536278629. Website: https://www.springtidepress.com.

Jessica Spring. One Liners. 2023. 74 pages. 9.375 x 6 in. Parsons on Mohawk Superfine with embellishers, festoons, and vintage cuts throughout for decoration and filling out page lengths, including an extra chapter featuring initials and monograms highlighted with several two-color specimens. Printed on a Vandercook Universal 1. 150 copies: Tue-mouche binding with Hook Pottery Paper Case covers by Gabby Cooksey, delivered in protective custom archival wrapper, price: $461. Features single line specimens from 238 metal typefaces in the collection at Springtide Press. Set daily from January 1, 2021 to April 6, 2022, the intent was to capture each day, from the most mundane and personal, to events unfolding in the world. One Liners is both journal and typographic specimen, revealing 461 days in the life of a printer, shared through her love of letters and wordplay. Three deluxe copies were bound by Donald Glaister, Gabby Cooksey and Susan Estelle Kwas.

Tudor Black Press. Hugh Macfarlane. 9 Rue de Frontenay, Lion de Marnes, Marnes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine 79600, FR. Tel: +33 (0)780586168. Website: https://www.tudorblackpress.co.uk.

Unknown. Arden of Feversham. 2023. 78 pages. 266×190 mm. Caslon Old Face on Zerkall off-white 145 gsm with 5 linocuts by Hugh Ribbans. Printed on an Albion hand press. 58 copies: 45 quarter bound in natural brown leather, with Fleur de Lis marbled paper on the boards, bound at the Tudor Black Press bindery, price: £240; 12 on handmade off-white Viceversa 140gsm, quarter bound in brown tooled leather with laced-on oak boards and housed in a drop back box, price: £470. The marbled papers for the special copies have a specially made Fleur de Lis design created by Papiers Prina in Brussels.

The Counter Press. Elizabeth Ellis and David Marshall. 3 Dower Cottages, Barrow Hill, Wick, South Glos. BS30 5RQ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)7725913618. Website: https://www.thecounterpress.co.uk.

Samuel Johnson. The Idler No.1. Elizabeth Ellis and David Marshall, editors. 2023. 12 pages. 257 x 170 mm. Diethelm on Velin BFK Rives Blanc 180 gsm. Printed on Grafix GX1N & Vandercook SP20. 50 copies hand bound at The Counter Press in deckle-edged Somerset Velvet Newsprint Grey 280 gsm with pink thread matched to the pink ink used. OP. Samuel Johnson began writing “The Idler” essays anonymously in 1758, publishing 103 over two years. Roused from idleness, we have chosen to republish some of these, beginning with ’The Idler No.1’ – the original text is accompanied here by definitions from Dr Johnson’s famous dictionary. Typesetting is by hand in various sizes of founders’ Diethelm, and letterpress printed in three colours. A 26-line condensed grotesque wood letter, giving the definition of an ‘Idler’, features on the inside covers.