Harsimus Press. Barbara Henry, 548 Manatawny Street, Pottstown, PA, USA. Tel: +1 201 779 5923. Website: https://www.harsimuspress.com.
J. Matthew Schley. What We Found. Introduction by Barbara Henry. Harsimus Press. 2021. 16 prints (loose). 14.5 x10.5 in. Bulmer on Zerkall Book (occasional plates on other papers), 14 intaglio by J. Matthew Schley and 2 pochoir by Barbara Henry. Printed on a Vandercook/etching press. 10 copies, clamshell box in red cloth, cover label, price $1200. Chronicles objects discovered in the restoration of an 1807 farmhouse in Pennsylvania.
Mad Parrot Press. Chad Pastotnik, PO Box 726 Mancelona, MI, USA. Tel: +1 231 587 0506 Website: https://www.deepwoodpress.com.
Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. James Dissette and Kathleen Jones, eds. Introduction by Peter Hunt. Mad Parrot Press. 2021. 148 pp. 355 x 260 mm. 14pt Centaur on custom paper from Papeterie Saint-Armand with 13 large multi-colour linoleum cuts and 9 smaller in two colours, all by Vladimir Zimakov. Printed on a Vandercook 219OS. 95 copies: 75 quarter bound, rounded and backed, in a very dark moss green Natural Goat from Siegel Leather with a cinnamon cotton book cloth, endpapers of printed pattern on mocha Hahnemühle Bugra with a cloth inner hinge, title in gilt foil on the spine in copper and silver, debossed panel on the front cover featuring Rat & Mole in a crossed oar emblem foiled in dull copper on grey-dyed goatskin, price $2000; 10 deluxe copies in individual presentation bindings, price $2500-$7500; and 5 copies reserved to be sold in sheets to book binders, price $1500.
interrobang letterpress. Michael Babcock, 18 Kenton Road Jamaica Plain, MA, USA. Tel: +1 617 522 4236 Website: https://interrobangletterpress.com.
Michael Tarbox. Night Train to Chelsea. interrobang letterpress. 2021. 20 pp. 5 x 8.5 mm. Optima Nova Pro/ Stempel Optima on 80# Cougar Natural interior and 100gsm Hahnemühle Ingres jacket. Printed on a Vandercook SP15. 100 copies. Pamphlet stitched and wrapped in the Hahnemühle, price $30. I admit that due to both the printer/designer (me), and the author/musician (Tarbox) being of limited means and minimal budget, the interior is printed digital offset, and only the jacket is printed by letterpress from type. That written, the Optima Nova Pro has an extended character set that the metal never had.
Press on Scroll Road. Bob Baris. 3387 Ormond Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118, USA. Tel: +1 216 704 6203. Website: https://www.thepressonscrollroad.com.
Richard Olney. Culinary Herbs. Press on Scroll Road. 2019. 26 pp. 280 x 190 mm. Cloister Light Face on handmade paper from the Morgan Conservancy, Cleveland, OH, with a wood engraving by Abigail Rorer. Printed on Washington Handpress. 50 copies, full bound in gray cloth with spine label by Priscilla Spitler, price $250.
Joseph Wechsberg. The Formidable Monsieur Point: Concerning the Renowned Restaurateur Fernand Point and His Restaurant De La Pyramide. 2021. 20 pp. 280 x 200 mm. Cloister Light Face on handmade paper from the Morgan Conservancy, Cleveland, OH. Printed on Washington Handpress. 50 copies, full bound in red cloth with spine label by Priscilla Spitler, price $250.
Shanty Bay Press. Walter Bachinski, 152 Drury Mill Road, Oro-Medonte, ON, Canada. Tel: +1 705 721 2491. Website: https://www.shantybaypress.com.
Walter Bachinski, Janis Butler. My Landscape. Shanty Bay Press. 2022. 64 pp. 279 X 279 mm. 16 pt Bembo on BFK Rives 175 gsm for text, seven pochoirs and seven colour reduction linocuts, and Heavy Kurotoni 5 for five woodcuts. Printed on a Vandercook Universal 1. 30 copies: 25 quarter bound in cloth, housed in a slip case, price $3000 (USD); 5 NFS. The text consists of nature poems by 14 renowned Canadian Poets. The illustrations, all by Walter Bachinski, are based on sketches and paintings done over decades of an area of northern Ontario from the Killarney Wilderness Park west to the Algoma Highlands.
Z’roah. Roni Gross, 427 East 6th Street 2W, New York, NY, USA. Tel: +1 212 677 4157. Website: https://ronigross.com.
Elsbeth Pancrazi. The Valley. Z’roah. 2019. 17 pp. 229 x 152 mm. Grotesque, Modern No. 20 on Somerset with 16 illustrations from polymer plates and cut foam pressure printed shapes, with the addition of colored pencil by Peter Schell. Printed on a Vandercook 219. 15 copies. Accordion bound by Uriel Cidor in orange japanese cloth with a meandering inset channel of green cloth, with box of same green cloth with a silver hot stamped title, price $850; 10 copies in envelope made by Roni Gross from green St. Armand paper, with 9 unbound prints/with text, price $350. A series of six poems described by the poet as “meditations on loss, a breadcrumb trail through the territory of grief. Each poem, comprised of two stacks of short lines, invites multiple readings and provokes reverberations of phrase and feeling.” Written in two columns, which can be read across both or down each, designed and set to clue the reader into the multiple possibilities.
Boss Dog Press. Don Rash, 50 Burke St Plains, PA, USA. Tel: +1 570 239 8643. Website: http://donrashfinebookbinder.com.
Don Rash. Fritz Eberhardt’s Finishing Tools and Technique. Boss Dog Press. 2021. 51 pp. 220 x 158 mm. Aldus (digital) on University of Iowa handmade Chancery paper with 19 digital images printed on Japanese paper and tipped in. Printed on a Washington hand press. 80 copies: 70 in full decorated paper (Payne’s Gray and off white) over boards with ochre goat leather edges at head and tail, gold stamping on front and rear boards, spine title stamped in gold, price $375; 10 in sheets for binders, price $275.
Peter and Donna Thomas. Peter Thomas, 260 15th Ave Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Tel: +1 831 475 1455. Website: http://members.cruzio.com/~peteranddonna/.
Peter and Donna Thomas. Evidence: Overruns and Ephemera. Peter and Donna Thomas. 2021. One 8-page pamphlet, two 4-flap portfolios (one with sample pages from the authors’ printed books, one with ephemera) in archival clamshell storage box with printed label. 406 x 305 mm (16 x 12 in). Centaur and gothic wood type on white handmade paper. Printed on a Vandercook. 30 copies: pamphlet stitched into blue handmade paper cover, portfolios made of blue handmade paper; copies 1-10, $975; 11-20, $850; 21-30 $625. A limited edition portfolio created to complement The Legacy Press’ recently published trade book: Peter and Donna Thomas: Bibliography, 1974-2020. The number of items per box ranges from 72 down to 46.
Rooksmoor Press. Katie Beard, The Nook Rooksmoor, Woodchester Stroud, Glos., UK. Tel: +44(0)7791 887 515. Email: rooksmoorpress@gmail.com. Website: https://www.rooksmoorpress.co.uk.
Christopher Smart. Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat. Rooksmoor Press. 2021. 8 pp. 318 x 218 mm mm. Monotype Caslon on Zerkall with one hand drawn line illustration by Katie Beard. Printed on a Swissproof 40 hand press. 200 copies hand sewn with red thread, with printed Conqueror envelope, price £12.
Two Trick Pony Press. Sarah Scarr, 300 James I Harrison Junior Parkway East, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35405, U.S.A. Tel: +1 5714 427 771. Website: sarahscarr.com
Sarah Scarr and Sophie Strohmeier. Gay and Lesbian Studies. 2021. 30 pp. 254 × 165 mm. Poliphilus on Zerkall and Masa with ten drawings by Sophie Strohmeier interpreted typographically by Sarah Scarr. Printed on a Vandercook No. 4 proof press. 45 copies in printed paper-covered boards, leather endbands and spine-label, price $350.00. Four of the illustrations are fold-outs, two incorporating direct prints from fishnet stockings.
