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. Email:paul@suntupeditions.com. Website: https://suntup.press.
Richard Matheson. Born of Man and Woman. 2024. 16 pages. 5.5 x 7.5 in. Foundry Grotesque 6 from Stephenson Blake type foundry on Mouldmade Hahnemühle Gutenberg, with one linocut by Vladimir Zimakov. Printed on FAG Swiss Proof 40. 276 copies: 250 hand sewn by the printer into Barcham Green de Wint paper covers from a 1970s making and housed in a solander enclosure covered in beige half-linen. Price: $250. OOP. 26 copies in Barcham Green Dover handmade paper from a 1982 making and bound at the Suntup Editions bindery in full black goatskin featuring haptic onlays across the front and back boards in grey goatskin, with leather head & tail bands and housed in a Dubletta cloth-covered solander enclosure with suede lined trays. Price: $995. OOP. Designed by Jerry Kelly and printed by John Grice at the Evergreen Press in Gloucestershire, England. The leather is J. Hewit & Sons.
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.
