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.
