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KUTENAI PRESS
NOTE: Small Presses in the Rocky Mountain West covers this and three other presses from Montana and Wyoming in detail.
Emily Mason Strayer established the Kutenai Press at Missoula, Montana, in 1986. Missoula, being a university town (the University of Montana is located there), has always had an active literary community which she was able to draw upon to her advantage. She published at least six works there before moving the Press, as she discovered that the area around Missoula, while supportive of her work, was not quite large enough for a prolonged presence. Consequently, she moved the Press to Willington, Connecticut in 1990. There, she published at least three books and completed two commissioned works before moving the Press to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1993. I have found only two titles and one commissioned work for that period, but I am sure there were more. Emily moved the Press for the last time to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1998. I have found but one work published there, and have not been able to ascertain when the Press was closed. I cannot speak to the reasons for her peregrinations.
NOTE: more recent research shows she was following her husband around from school to various jobs. They currently live in California
While in the East, she collaborated with Gerald Lange of the Beiler Press on several projects.
Probably the most important work issued by the Press from any location was A. B. Guthrie, Jr.’s book of verse, Four Miles From Ear Mountain. This was a collection of twenty-three poems written between 1935 and 1987, illustrated with four woodcuts by Kathy Bogan in an edition of 300 copies, all signed by Guthrie & Bogan. The book was issued while at the Missoula location, and at this late point in his life—he died in 1991—Mr. Guthrie was living in Missoula, having moved from his home in Choteau, Montana, some years previously, which made the collaboration much easier than otherwise. As Guthrie was a best-selling novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (for The Way West), his work is highly sought after. Consequently, this book is currently going for $300 to $425 on the secondary market.
The output of the Press is readily found in the secondary market in collectible condition at reasonable prices for most titles with a few exceptions, the Guthrie book being the most notable.
LIST OF PRINTED WORKS
Missoula, Montana
Matthew Hanson. Clearing. 1986
A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Four Miles From Ear Mountain. 1987 (Illustrated below)
William Kittredge. Phantom Silver. 1987
David Romtvedt. Letters From Mexico. 1988 (Highlighted below)
James Welch. The Indian Lawyer. Broadside. 1989 (Illustrated below) James Welch (d. 2003) was the author of the novel Winter in the Blood which was made into a movie of the same name, and of several other novels, including Fool’s Crow. He was of mixed ancestry; his father was Blackfeet (Pikuni) and his mother Gros Ventre (A'aninin) with some Irish back there somewhere, too.
Paul Zarzaski. Tracks. 1989
Willington, Connecticut
Specimen of an Etymological Dictionary Attributed to John Mitchell Kemble. commissioned work for Rulon-Miller Books.. Work was designed by Gerald Lange of the Beiler Press and printed by Emily Strayer at the Kutenai Press. 1990
Joan Joffe Hall. Summer Heat: Three Stories. 1991
Joan Seliger Sidney. The Way the Past Comes Back. 1991
Marilyn Nelson Wenick. Partial Truth. 1992
Lindsay Hill. Kill Series. commissioned work for Arundel Press.
St. Paul, Minnesota
David Long. Perfection. 1993
Margot Fortunato. The Country’s Way With Rain. 1994
Chris Offutt. Two-Eleven All Around commissioned work for Danger! Books, St. Paul. 1998 This may have been printed in Princeton.
Princeton, New Jersey
Alexs Pate. Innocent. 1998
FEATURED WORK: Letters from Mexico
Missoula, Montana, (1988). Edition of 150 numbered copies on Frankfurt Cream paper; Indian handmade covers, Moriki endsheets; text is set in Goudy Californian. Five monoprints by Pat Weyer of Seattle, Washington. Copies signed by author and artist. 6.5 x 10 inches, 55 pp. ISBN 0-937459-04-6. $50.00. Copies of this book can be had for anywhere from $30 to $56. I love the feel of both the cover paper and the text. Very scrumptious.
I apologize for this scan....it slipped a bit during the process and I was not in a mood to re-do it.
THE PROSPECTUS
NOTE: The following images have been pulled off the internet. I am, therefore, not responsible for the quality or lack thereof.
THE JAMES WELCH BROADSIDE
A. B. GUTHRIE BOOK. Handset in Deepdene, printed on Frankfurt White paper. 300 copies, signed by Guthrie and the artist, Kathy Bogan. The wrappers are HMP Sierra.
NOTE: Small Presses in the Rocky Mountain West covers this and three other presses from Montana and Wyoming in detail.
Emily Mason Strayer established the Kutenai Press at Missoula, Montana, in 1986. Missoula, being a university town (the University of Montana is located there), has always had an active literary community which she was able to draw upon to her advantage. She published at least six works there before moving the Press, as she discovered that the area around Missoula, while supportive of her work, was not quite large enough for a prolonged presence. Consequently, she moved the Press to Willington, Connecticut in 1990. There, she published at least three books and completed two commissioned works before moving the Press to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1993. I have found only two titles and one commissioned work for that period, but I am sure there were more. Emily moved the Press for the last time to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1998. I have found but one work published there, and have not been able to ascertain when the Press was closed. I cannot speak to the reasons for her peregrinations.
NOTE: more recent research shows she was following her husband around from school to various jobs. They currently live in California
While in the East, she collaborated with Gerald Lange of the Beiler Press on several projects.
Probably the most important work issued by the Press from any location was A. B. Guthrie, Jr.’s book of verse, Four Miles From Ear Mountain. This was a collection of twenty-three poems written between 1935 and 1987, illustrated with four woodcuts by Kathy Bogan in an edition of 300 copies, all signed by Guthrie & Bogan. The book was issued while at the Missoula location, and at this late point in his life—he died in 1991—Mr. Guthrie was living in Missoula, having moved from his home in Choteau, Montana, some years previously, which made the collaboration much easier than otherwise. As Guthrie was a best-selling novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner (for The Way West), his work is highly sought after. Consequently, this book is currently going for $300 to $425 on the secondary market.
The output of the Press is readily found in the secondary market in collectible condition at reasonable prices for most titles with a few exceptions, the Guthrie book being the most notable.
LIST OF PRINTED WORKS
Missoula, Montana
Matthew Hanson. Clearing. 1986
A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Four Miles From Ear Mountain. 1987 (Illustrated below)
William Kittredge. Phantom Silver. 1987
David Romtvedt. Letters From Mexico. 1988 (Highlighted below)
James Welch. The Indian Lawyer. Broadside. 1989 (Illustrated below) James Welch (d. 2003) was the author of the novel Winter in the Blood which was made into a movie of the same name, and of several other novels, including Fool’s Crow. He was of mixed ancestry; his father was Blackfeet (Pikuni) and his mother Gros Ventre (A'aninin) with some Irish back there somewhere, too.
Paul Zarzaski. Tracks. 1989
Willington, Connecticut
Specimen of an Etymological Dictionary Attributed to John Mitchell Kemble. commissioned work for Rulon-Miller Books.. Work was designed by Gerald Lange of the Beiler Press and printed by Emily Strayer at the Kutenai Press. 1990
Joan Joffe Hall. Summer Heat: Three Stories. 1991
Joan Seliger Sidney. The Way the Past Comes Back. 1991
Marilyn Nelson Wenick. Partial Truth. 1992
Lindsay Hill. Kill Series. commissioned work for Arundel Press.
St. Paul, Minnesota
David Long. Perfection. 1993
Margot Fortunato. The Country’s Way With Rain. 1994
Chris Offutt. Two-Eleven All Around commissioned work for Danger! Books, St. Paul. 1998 This may have been printed in Princeton.
Princeton, New Jersey
Alexs Pate. Innocent. 1998
FEATURED WORK: Letters from Mexico
Missoula, Montana, (1988). Edition of 150 numbered copies on Frankfurt Cream paper; Indian handmade covers, Moriki endsheets; text is set in Goudy Californian. Five monoprints by Pat Weyer of Seattle, Washington. Copies signed by author and artist. 6.5 x 10 inches, 55 pp. ISBN 0-937459-04-6. $50.00. Copies of this book can be had for anywhere from $30 to $56. I love the feel of both the cover paper and the text. Very scrumptious.
I apologize for this scan....it slipped a bit during the process and I was not in a mood to re-do it.
THE PROSPECTUS
NOTE: The following images have been pulled off the internet. I am, therefore, not responsible for the quality or lack thereof.
THE JAMES WELCH BROADSIDE
A. B. GUTHRIE BOOK. Handset in Deepdene, printed on Frankfurt White paper. 300 copies, signed by Guthrie and the artist, Kathy Bogan. The wrappers are HMP Sierra.
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