Camino Press. Matt Kelsey, 14321 Lutheria Way, Saratoga, California 95070, U.S.A. Tel: +1 408 313 3306. www.liberapertus.com/camino
Dave Farey. Goudy’s Last Christmas. 2020. 15 pp. 230 × 150 mm. Kennerley on Arturo Book with three images of Goudy and one of the Kennerley pinmark printed from line blocks. Printed on a Challenge MP-15 proof press. 110 copies sewn into card covers and printed red paper wrappers, price $45. A ‘shaggy dog story’ about Goudy, printed using a fount of Kennerly cast by the short-lived Advance Type Foundry.
Wigtown Press. Helen Morley, Scotland. Tel: +44 (0)1988 402802. www.helenmorley.org/
Max Erhmann. The Desiderata. 2020. 24 pp. 100 × 118 mm. Baskerville on cartridge paper with ten acrylic-engravings by Helen Morley. Printed on a Cropper Minerva treadle press. 50 copies in quarter red cloth with patterned paper-covered boards, price £50. The first book from the Press.
Egremont Press. Gordon Chesterman, 17 Richmond Road, Cambridge CB4 3PP, England. Tel: +44 (0)7786 013452. www.flickr.com/photos/84352305@N00/
A Little Book of Poems and Illustrations. 48 pp. 180 × 120 mm. Nicolas Cochin on laid paper with four drawings by Fiona Whitehouse printed from line blocks. Printed on an Adana 8 × 5 press. 120 copies in quarter dark red cloth with printed paper-covered boards. Not for sale. A selection of thirty poems by diverse authors.
Fork and Broom Press. Annette C. Disslin, Oppenweher Strasse 9, Stemwede, NRW D-32351, Germany. Tel: +49 176 46105026. www.forkandbroompress.net
William Dean Howells. Earliest Spring. 2020. 12 pp. 255 × 165 mm. Trajanus and Jaguar on Hahnemühle with two linocuts by Annette C. Disslin. Printed on a Grafix proof press. Seven copies sewn into printed paper wrappers, price €40.
Incline Press. Graham Moss, 36 Bow Street, Oldham, Lancashire OL1 1SJ, England. Tel: +44 (0)1616 271966. www.inclinepress.com
Fredric Brewer. The Printer’s Fist. 2019. 6 pp. 115 × 90 mm. Poliphilus on W. S. Head hand-made with cast fists and a woodcut by Matt Mckellier. Printed on an AutoVic treadle press. 120 copies sewn into St Armand card covers, price £10. Printed to accompany the exhibition ‘A show of hands’ at Corsham Court during September and October 2019.
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Keith Pettit. Stillness. Introduction by Graham Moss. 2019. 6 pp. 172 × 110 mm. Fairbanks on Velke Losiny hand-made with a wood-engraving of the Long Man of Wilmington by Pettit. Printed on an AutoVic treadle press. 60 copies sewn into Two Rivers paper covers, price £25.
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Robert Burns. Two Songs. Introduction by Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen. 12 pp. 170 × 115 mm. Bembo on hand-made paper with three Victorian stock-blocks and an ampersand by Mark McKellier. Printed on an AutoVic treadle press. 110 copies: 65 sewn into printed pink Khadi wrappers; 45 sewn into printed pale blue ingres wrappers, price £25. Printed to celebrate Burns’ Night. The paper was made for the Stanbrook Abbey Press. Most copies were sent as a parting gift from Kathy Whalen to those who had sent her their good wishes during her final illness.
No Reply Press. Griffin Gonzales, 1820 SE 16th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97214, U.S.A. Tel: +1 503 367 0082. www.noreplypress.com
Markus Zusak. The Failurist. 2020. 16 pp. 215 × 140 mm. Caslon on Mohawk Feltmark. Printed on a Vandercook Universal I proof press. 127 copies: 96 in pastepaper-covered boards, cover- and spine-labels, price $85; 26 in French marbled paper-covered boards, cover- and spine-labels, in a slip case, price $185.
St Brigid Press. Emily Hancock, P.O. Box 114, Afton, Virginia 22920, U.S.A. Tel: +1 540 649 2064. www.stbrigidpress.net/
Arthur Sze. Starlight Behind Daylight. 2020. 28 pp. 305 × 203 mm. Centaur and Arrighi on Mohawk with two linocuts by Emily Hancock. Printed on a Challenge MP-15 proof press. 134 copies sewn into printed St Armand paper covers, price $75.00. Twelve poems, six selected from the author’s collection Sight Lines. The linocuts depict the constellations Cygnus and Orion.
Press at Colorado College. Aaron Cohick, 14 E. Cache la Poudre Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903, U.S.A. Tel: +1 719 389 6376. www.thepressatcoloradocollege.org/
Divya Victor. CURB. 2019. 90 pp (concertina-folded). 320 × 205 mm. Filosofia on Somerset Book with 18 original rubbings by Aaron Cohick. Printed on a Vandercook 219 proof press. 30 copies in full printed cloth, price $1150. Each copy is unique, containing different rubbings made by Cohick from assorted curbs and ‘sidewalks’.
The CODEX Foundation. Peter R. Koch, 2203 Fourth Street, Berkeley, California 94710, U.S.A. Tel: +1 510 849 0673. www.codexfoundation.org/
Gerald W. Cloud, editor. The CODEX Papers, Volume 2. 2020. 144 pp. 215 × 170 mm. Quadraat on Cougar opaque with numerous photographs and facsimiles in colour and monochrome. Printed offset by Puritan Press. 400 copies in cream paper covers and wrappers (printed letterpress), price $75.00 (by subscription). Includes contributions by Megan Adie, Tatjana Bergelt, Michael Bixler, Deidre Brollo, Carolee Campbell, Gerald W. Cloud, Helen Cole, Des Cowley, Marian Crawford, Caren Florance, Noreen Grahame, Amelia Grounds, Eva Hejdström, Peter R. Koch, Russell Maret, Tim Mosely, Monica Oppen, Susanne Padberg, Aaron Parrett, Juan Pascoe, Vicki Reynolds, Felicia Rice, Annie Schlechter, Doug Spowart, Alicia Stevenson, Paul Thompson and Pierre Walusinski.
Peter and Donna Thomas. 260 15th Avenue, Santa Cruz, California 95062, U.S.A. Tel: +1 831 475 1455. members.cruzio.com/~peteranddonna/
Jan Davidson and Maya Angelou. Free Little Bird. 2019. 12 leaves (double concertina-folded). 175 × 75 mm. Canterbury on papers hand-made by Peter Thomas, with eleven linocuts by Donna Thomas (one on the slip case) and cut-out decorations on every leaf. Printed on a Vandercook proof press. 39 copies in decorated mahogany boards, in a slip case, price $375. There are two texts, a folk-song collected by Jan Davidson and an extract from Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, printed within the double-concertina structure.
