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.
