Fine Print Time Machine: vol. 2, no. 1, January, 1976
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1Glacierman
#1 has a nice article with b&w illustrations on the bookbinder Philip Smith, and also notes the resurrection of the Shakespeare Head Press with an address in Oxford. It's first two titles were to be Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson, and The Diary of Frank Sidgwick. Sidgwick was partner to A. H. Bullen in the original Shakespeare Head Press.
Recent Press Books
The Attic Press; (William A. Shell, Richmond, VA). Robert Archer. The Night After Christmas. 1975. Hand-colored illus. by Eleanor Shell. Miniature book, 2 x 2.5". 60 copies.
Harold Berliner, Printer (Nevada City, CA). 1975. Haniel Long. The Power Within Us: Cabeza de Vaca's Relation of His Journey from Florida to the Pacific. Preface by Henry Miller. Designed by Wolfgang Lederer. 47 pp; 750 copies in Lutetia types; brown buckram.
Reviewer note: "...thanks are due Mr. Berliner for making a significant text available in attractive format. First published in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in1936, Long's Interlinear to the Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca, as it was first called, poignantly recreates De Vaca's narrative of his odyssey among the Indians and allows him to describe his revelation as he divested himself of his exploitative European attitudes. Miller's perceptive view of the piece as a modern paradigm first appeared in an edition published in London in 1946."
Nota bene: I have this book and it makes an excellent companion to the Narrative itself, which I have in the Imprint Society edition.
Five Trees Press (SF, CA).
Jane Rosenthal. Crocus Sprouting. 1974. Poems. 22 pp; wraps. Drawing of blooming crocus by Jaime Robles on t. p. Designed & Printed by Cheryl Miller. 350 copies. $4.00.
(Hilda Doolittle). HD: The Poet and the Dancer. 1st book edition. Poems. 26 pp; wraps; two color t.p. illus by Jaime Robles. 600 copies printed by Kathy Walkup. $3.25. Hardcover $7.00.
Frank Hallman (NY, NY).
Jean Rhys. My Day: 3 autobiographical pieces. Wraps & h/c, 750 copies total.
Thom Gunn. Jack Straw's Castle. A poem in 11 parts. 300 in wrappers, 100 h/c.
Michael McClure. Man of Moderation. 400 in wrappers, 100 h/c & signed.
The Janus Press.
Estelle Leontief. Whatever Happens. Poems. 1975. 28 pp. Dark grey cloth. 250 copies, signed.
Susan Johanknecht. Spring Clay: poem in twelve parts. 1975. 10 pp. Wrappers of thick, roughly textured Zaan paper with pronounced deckle along lower edge. 2 lithographs by the author. 72 copies, signed. "Crisply printed in grey and black in elegant large Spectrum. Surprisingly ragged deckle very pleasing. A book of delicacy and texture."
The Printery (Kirkwood, MO).
Shaking Hands with Immortality: Encomiums for Vincent Starrett. Contributions by Carl Sandburg, Christopher Morely, August Derleth, and others. 1975. 48 pp;1/4 yellowish brown cloth, brown & gold Bertini paper. Hand set Bulmer; 225 copies, $12.50. "...a fine book and an excellent value."
Rather Press (Lois & Clifton Rather, Oakland, CA).
Rather. Bufano and the U. S. A. Photo illus. 128 pp; 8vo, hardbound. 150 copies. $20.00.
Rather. Bittersweet: Ambrose Bierce and Women. 133 pp; 8vo, quarter cloth, 150 copies. $20.00
The Stone Wall Press. (Kim Merker, Iowa City, IA).
Michael Lally. Dues. Poems. 1975. 27 pp. Dark blue-grey cloth. Set in Van Krimpen's Romanee type and printed in grey. 235 copies, $7.25. I used to have this book. Excellent, of course.
Works in Progress
Books listed here will likely show up again later when they are released, but with greater detail.
Angelica Press. Voyage to Laputa from Gulliver's Travels. Designed & printed by Warren Chappell using two-color combination pen and ink and scratchboard drawings. 1000 copies ready Spring 1976.
Arion Press. William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis. Together with sources for the poem in Ovid's Metamorphoses translated by Arthur Golding in 1567. Unusual edition set in Bauer Bodoni italic and roman with mauve initials in Piranesi. Unique illustrations will be mauve and grey, composed from foundry ornaments. 200 copies, $85.
Pennyroyal Press (Barry Moser).
E. M. Beckman. Carnal Lent. Short collection of poems, printed in two colors, with a wood-engraved portrait of the poet by Moser.
John J. Walsdorf, ed. Men of Printing: Anglo-American Profiles. Collection of engraved portraits and biographies of Morris, Cobden-Sanderson, Walker, Gill, Hornsby, Nash, Goudy and Rogers. Designed by Rick Hendel, set in Monotype Scotch Roman.
Goudy Greek is a typographic display and celebration of F. W. Goudy's fine Greek type. The opening poetry of St. John's Gospel is the text with handsomely designed logograms of the four central words. Probably 100 copies on Nideggen in 3 colors.
Harold Berliner, Printer.
A small quarto edition of Dickens' A Christmas Carol with color illustrations by Wolfgang Lederer.
Book of Genesis with woodcuts by Helen Siegl. NOTE: I don't think this was ever finished. He was having unexpected problems with it and eventually abandoned the project. I had a brief correspondence with him during this period and that is what I remember him saying about this project.
A volume on the book plates of Claud Lovat Fraser by Brian North Lee.
The Five Trees Press (SF, CA). "This relatively new small press emphasizing the literature of women has a couple of intriguing titles in the works. Modulations for Solo Voice, a limited edition of new poems by Denise Levertov, and Abra, a children's story by David McItzer with illustrations by John Brandi.
Unicorn Press (Greensboro, NC).
Euclidians. Terse, minimalist poetry based on geometric shapes by the French Poet Guillevie, translated by Theo Savory.
Venice in the Fog, a love poem evoking the spirit of Venice by William Jay Smith, illustrated with 4 original etchings by Walter Barker, 200 copies.
Indian Summer, poems by Ann Deagon stemming from the author's experience on the Qualla Reservation at Cherokee, NC; with 5 signed linoleum cuts by Andrew Martin, 200 copies.
The Windhover Press.
Master Peter Patelan, a 15th c. French farce in a new verse translation, illustrated from the wood-cuts of the first edition. 225 copies.$16.25,
Preface to This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 8 leaves printed recto only; 150 copies, $7.75.
Recent Press Books
The Attic Press; (William A. Shell, Richmond, VA). Robert Archer. The Night After Christmas. 1975. Hand-colored illus. by Eleanor Shell. Miniature book, 2 x 2.5". 60 copies.
Harold Berliner, Printer (Nevada City, CA). 1975. Haniel Long. The Power Within Us: Cabeza de Vaca's Relation of His Journey from Florida to the Pacific. Preface by Henry Miller. Designed by Wolfgang Lederer. 47 pp; 750 copies in Lutetia types; brown buckram.
Reviewer note: "...thanks are due Mr. Berliner for making a significant text available in attractive format. First published in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in1936, Long's Interlinear to the Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca, as it was first called, poignantly recreates De Vaca's narrative of his odyssey among the Indians and allows him to describe his revelation as he divested himself of his exploitative European attitudes. Miller's perceptive view of the piece as a modern paradigm first appeared in an edition published in London in 1946."
Nota bene: I have this book and it makes an excellent companion to the Narrative itself, which I have in the Imprint Society edition.
Five Trees Press (SF, CA).
Jane Rosenthal. Crocus Sprouting. 1974. Poems. 22 pp; wraps. Drawing of blooming crocus by Jaime Robles on t. p. Designed & Printed by Cheryl Miller. 350 copies. $4.00.
(Hilda Doolittle). HD: The Poet and the Dancer. 1st book edition. Poems. 26 pp; wraps; two color t.p. illus by Jaime Robles. 600 copies printed by Kathy Walkup. $3.25. Hardcover $7.00.
Frank Hallman (NY, NY).
Jean Rhys. My Day: 3 autobiographical pieces. Wraps & h/c, 750 copies total.
Thom Gunn. Jack Straw's Castle. A poem in 11 parts. 300 in wrappers, 100 h/c.
Michael McClure. Man of Moderation. 400 in wrappers, 100 h/c & signed.
The Janus Press.
Estelle Leontief. Whatever Happens. Poems. 1975. 28 pp. Dark grey cloth. 250 copies, signed.
Susan Johanknecht. Spring Clay: poem in twelve parts. 1975. 10 pp. Wrappers of thick, roughly textured Zaan paper with pronounced deckle along lower edge. 2 lithographs by the author. 72 copies, signed. "Crisply printed in grey and black in elegant large Spectrum. Surprisingly ragged deckle very pleasing. A book of delicacy and texture."
The Printery (Kirkwood, MO).
Shaking Hands with Immortality: Encomiums for Vincent Starrett. Contributions by Carl Sandburg, Christopher Morely, August Derleth, and others. 1975. 48 pp;1/4 yellowish brown cloth, brown & gold Bertini paper. Hand set Bulmer; 225 copies, $12.50. "...a fine book and an excellent value."
Rather Press (Lois & Clifton Rather, Oakland, CA).
Rather. Bufano and the U. S. A. Photo illus. 128 pp; 8vo, hardbound. 150 copies. $20.00.
Rather. Bittersweet: Ambrose Bierce and Women. 133 pp; 8vo, quarter cloth, 150 copies. $20.00
The Stone Wall Press. (Kim Merker, Iowa City, IA).
Michael Lally. Dues. Poems. 1975. 27 pp. Dark blue-grey cloth. Set in Van Krimpen's Romanee type and printed in grey. 235 copies, $7.25. I used to have this book. Excellent, of course.
Works in Progress
Books listed here will likely show up again later when they are released, but with greater detail.
Angelica Press. Voyage to Laputa from Gulliver's Travels. Designed & printed by Warren Chappell using two-color combination pen and ink and scratchboard drawings. 1000 copies ready Spring 1976.
Arion Press. William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis. Together with sources for the poem in Ovid's Metamorphoses translated by Arthur Golding in 1567. Unusual edition set in Bauer Bodoni italic and roman with mauve initials in Piranesi. Unique illustrations will be mauve and grey, composed from foundry ornaments. 200 copies, $85.
Pennyroyal Press (Barry Moser).
E. M. Beckman. Carnal Lent. Short collection of poems, printed in two colors, with a wood-engraved portrait of the poet by Moser.
John J. Walsdorf, ed. Men of Printing: Anglo-American Profiles. Collection of engraved portraits and biographies of Morris, Cobden-Sanderson, Walker, Gill, Hornsby, Nash, Goudy and Rogers. Designed by Rick Hendel, set in Monotype Scotch Roman.
Goudy Greek is a typographic display and celebration of F. W. Goudy's fine Greek type. The opening poetry of St. John's Gospel is the text with handsomely designed logograms of the four central words. Probably 100 copies on Nideggen in 3 colors.
Harold Berliner, Printer.
A small quarto edition of Dickens' A Christmas Carol with color illustrations by Wolfgang Lederer.
Book of Genesis with woodcuts by Helen Siegl. NOTE: I don't think this was ever finished. He was having unexpected problems with it and eventually abandoned the project. I had a brief correspondence with him during this period and that is what I remember him saying about this project.
A volume on the book plates of Claud Lovat Fraser by Brian North Lee.
The Five Trees Press (SF, CA). "This relatively new small press emphasizing the literature of women has a couple of intriguing titles in the works. Modulations for Solo Voice, a limited edition of new poems by Denise Levertov, and Abra, a children's story by David McItzer with illustrations by John Brandi.
Unicorn Press (Greensboro, NC).
Euclidians. Terse, minimalist poetry based on geometric shapes by the French Poet Guillevie, translated by Theo Savory.
Venice in the Fog, a love poem evoking the spirit of Venice by William Jay Smith, illustrated with 4 original etchings by Walter Barker, 200 copies.
Indian Summer, poems by Ann Deagon stemming from the author's experience on the Qualla Reservation at Cherokee, NC; with 5 signed linoleum cuts by Andrew Martin, 200 copies.
The Windhover Press.
Master Peter Patelan, a 15th c. French farce in a new verse translation, illustrated from the wood-cuts of the first edition. 225 copies.$16.25,
Preface to This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. 8 leaves printed recto only; 150 copies, $7.75.
2ChestnutPress
I love seeing these listings. A great mix of many fine books and presses that I know well, plus several that are completely new to me.
3DenimDan
>1 Glacierman: Re: Harold Berliner's Genesis. He did eventually publish it from Nevada City in 2004, with woodcuts by Helen Seigl. I remember seeing a few copies on Etsy (of all places), sometime pre-COVID. I think that seller was somehow connected to his family.
4Shadekeep
Good stuff once more! The only one I have from the inventory is Master Peter Patelan, courtesy the Merker sisters. Unicorn is an interesting press from what little I've seen firsthand of their output. And I have a couple of the Five Trees books mentioned on my perpetual wishlist (the Doolittle and the Levertov). Thanks again for gathering and sharing these gems.
5Glacierman
>3 DenimDan: OK...he obviously took it up again. The seller you mention was probably his daughter, as she is selling his back stock here and Genesis is listed. Guess I should have checked there first!
6Shadekeep
>5 Glacierman: Well, now that you've put the link here, they won't be available much longer. I've ordered Knights and Valentines just now, and I scarce believe I'm the only person here putting a purchase in.
7jbrnewman
>3 DenimDan: >5 Glacierman: I happen to have acquired a copy of this on the advice of this forum's oracle. It's a lovely book and generally quite well-priced (although I did pay considerably less than the listing mentioned above, I still would consider it a bargain at that price).
8Shadekeep
>5 Glacierman: Further info on Harold Berliner. His daughter Judith Berliner still does presswork through her company Full Circle Press. Interesting bit of trivia there about how her father co-authored the Miranda Warning ("You have the right to remain silent...") when he was California district attorney and he began his press business imprinting plastic Miranda cards for police officers.
9Lukas1990
>8 Shadekeep: Wow! Interesting fact indeed!
11Shadekeep
>10 Glacierman: Nice, I wasn't aware of that review. Good work, should have figured you'd know this stuff already. I almost picked up that volume from Full Circle as well, may go back for it if I enjoy the one I did order.
12kcshankd
This tremendous thread has now netted me 1) a 1988 Okeanos Press reprint of the Haniel Long's imagined Cabeza de Vaca letter, and 2) The Imprint Society version of Cabeza's Narrative. The second book arrived with a listing of other Imprint Society books available from the same bookseller, which netted me 3) Benito Cerano and 4) Warre's Sketches.
>1 Glacierman:
Thanks!
>1 Glacierman:
Thanks!
13Glacierman
>12 kcshankd: You are most welcome! I really like the Imprint Soc. edition of Cabeza de Vaca. Glad you snagged a copy. Congrats!
14mr.philistine
>12 kcshankd: This tremendous thread has now netted me... 3) Benito Cerano...
Don't forget to check out The Sea and the Jungle (also illustrated by Garrick Palmer) and King Solomon's Mines (reviewed here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/339881 ) - both by Imprint Society.
Don't forget to check out The Sea and the Jungle (also illustrated by Garrick Palmer) and King Solomon's Mines (reviewed here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/339881 ) - both by Imprint Society.
15kcshankd
>14 mr.philistine:
Thank you.
For the curious, there are several Imprint Society threads that turn up in a search of the forum that provide quite the overview.
Thank you.
For the curious, there are several Imprint Society threads that turn up in a search of the forum that provide quite the overview.
16Glacierman
Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands, illustrated by John O'Connor and designed by Will Carter, is another Imprint Soc. title worthy of inclusion in your library.
17Shadekeep
Adding to the Imprint Society digression, I can recommend Daphnis and Chloe (pleasingly illustrated) and Novelle Cinque, both of which can be found at bargain prices.
18Lukas1990
>17 Shadekeep:
Here is Daphnis and Chloe for about 20 USD! I would grab it but shipping is almoat three times as much. https://ebay.us/m/rIvBW1
Here is Daphnis and Chloe for about 20 USD! I would grab it but shipping is almoat three times as much. https://ebay.us/m/rIvBW1
19Shadekeep
>18 Lukas1990: Prices do seem to vary wildly, but there are some real deals on it as you've found. You might find better shipping rates from one of the sellers on Abebooks.
