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Olson, Marian. Desert Hours.

Posted in Individual collections, Letterpress, tagged , , , , , , on 10 March 2008 | 1 Comment »

Northfield, Massachusetts: Lily Pool Press, 2007. Art by Karen Fitzsimmons. Letterpress, sewn binding, 109 pages, 5.5×8.5″. ISBN 978-0-934714-35-8.
With thanks to the author.
Think beautiful. Think demanding, exquisite craftsmanship. Think words lifting from pages into our minds and hearts. Think “book”—in the finest examples you know of, the happiest marriage of text, type, space, and materials possible. [...]

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Madeleine Findlay. Shaped Water: A Haiku Year.

Posted in Individual collections, Letterpress, tagged , , , on 30 January 2008 | No Comments »

Portsmouth, NH: Single Island Press, 2007. 4.25×5.5″ (11×14 cm), approx 64 unnumbered pages, $14.95 from the publisher, 379 State St., 03801.
With thanks to Tom D’Evelyn.
With Shaped Water, editor, publisher and author Madeleine Findlay inaugurates her and Tom D’Evelyn’s “small press”* in fine style. From a four-color wrapper to the letterpress-printed interior in sewn signatures of [...]

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