1Glacierman
Interesting lead article by Dwight Agner, The Nightowl at Ten, a overview of the first ten years of his Press of the Nightowl.
P. 40 has a short note welcoming Peter Koch & Shelley Hoyt-Koch’s Black Stone Press. I give here the note in full for those who find such details interesting.
Welcome to The Black Stone Press (P. O. Box 756, Missoula, MT 59801), apparently the only private press in the state. (It was. — RLH) Proprietors Peter Koch and Shelley Hoyt-Koch have won an NEA grant to study hand-bookbinding, paper-making and hand printing and will be traveling to California to investigate those processes. They would like the Black Stone Press to become a “laboratory” press where artists, printmakers and writers collaborate on the production of books and ephemera. In hand printing, Peter Koch finds “the most revolutionary of practices – that of making the world beautiful and slowed to human time.” Their first book (Born by Michael Poage – RLH) was noted in the April, 1976 issue of FP.
Also noted was the Pray Curser Press founded by Erwin R. Bergdoll (Elm Bank, Dutton, VA 23050) to produce prits, brochures and booklets.
Noted also that two books from Merker’s Windhover Press were selected for the AIGA Fifty Books of the Year: Master Peter Patelan (Selected Press Books, this issue), and Charles Olson in Connecticut (FP, July, 1975, p. 28).
Report on the death of Roberto Frontier of the Legatoria Piazzesi of Venice in an auto accident.
Selected Press Books
Abbatoir Editions (U. Nebr. at Omaha/Harry Duncan et alia).
Holding Out | Poems rendered from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rika Lesser with ‘A Note’ by Richard Howard. 1976. 12¼ x 8 in; 80 pp. 225 copies printed by hand in Bembo type with Romulus Open initials on Grand Moghul hand made paper from India. Half cloth copies with pasted label bound by Connie Sayre of the Black Oak bindery, $25; copies in full natural linen with pasted label, $15. “Lesser’s translation leaves one with the feeling of not having missed anything. Thus that most sought for harmony: one person’s hands lending true fulfillment to another person’s thoughts.”
Walter H. Clark, Jr. View from Mount Paugus and other poems. 1976. 9¾ x 6¼ in, 59 pp. 200 copies printed from Cloister Old Style capitals with Bembo Narrow Italic type on Antique Laid paper, by Timothy Anderson, Randolph Klauzer, and Harry Duncan. Grey tweed cloth, $7.50.
Angelica Press (New York). Wood Type of the Angelica Press. Designed by Dennis J. Grastorf on Curtis Tweedweave and Ragston paper. Text set in 12 pt. Garamone No. 3 with 36 pt. Garamond Italic for the heads and Goudy Oldstyle for the initial letters. 220 copies. Loose sheets, 20 x 13¼ in. In hinged box of dark varnished wood. Sheets enclosed in four dark blue folders labeled: A History (5 pp); The Fonts (46 specimen sheets with 8 double-page and 3 triple-page; How to Print Wood Type (8 pp including bibliography) with diagrams by Marilyn Grastorf. $135.00 plus $1.75 shipping (!).
Raamin-Presse (Germany). Christian Hofmann von Hoffmannswaldau Ausgewahlte Gedichte mit einundzwanzi Illustrationen von Roswith Quadflieg. 1975 10½ x 8 in, 46 pp. Text in 12 and 20 point Breitkopf Fraktur, initials in 36 pt. Oud Hollands. Design, manual typesetting, printing and colouring of the papers for the binding by Roswitha Quadflieg. Paper is French handmade Arton Arches. 60 numbered and signed copies; Nos. 1-10 with a loosely enclosed numbered and signed original etching, DM 450. Bound in mottled paper in soft hues of beige, pink and blue over boards with maroon leather spine. Signed by Quadflieg. “Some serious international attention is due this rising young printer of Hamburg....”
Windhover Press (Iowa City, IA). Master Pater Patelan a Fifteenth Century French Farce translated by Katie Franks. 1975. 10 x 5½ in, vii + 88 pp. 225 copies from handset Joanna types on Ragston paper. Woodcut illustrations from first printed edition of play, ca. 1465. Rust cloth spine, rust Japanese paper with white pin-stripes; white paper label. $16.25. (AIGA 50 books).
Recent Press Books
Abbatoir Editions.
Paul Dilsaver. Malginant Blues. 1976. 7¾ x 3½ in.; 31 pp. Handmade cover paper by Walter Hamady. 150 copies in Romulus Bold on Hosho Iyomasa paper. $5. “Savage poetry opening on title page with a startling phallic drawing by James Brunot in red and black.”
Greg Kuzma. A Day in the World. Poems. 10¼ 6¾ in; 88 pp. Green cloth. Original etching onf t. p. by James W. Mall. 200 copies in Joanna type on smooth Basingwerk paper. $10.
Marilyn Thompson. Saying Things. Poems. 9¾ x 6¼ in; 80 pp. Cloth spine and patterned boards. Oval linoleum cuts printed in russet inclu. one on t.p. 275 copies in Cancellaresca Bastarda and Romulus types. $12.50.
Sandy Campbell (NY, NY). E. M. Forster’s Letters to Donald Windham with comments by the recipient. Verona, 1976. 9¼ x 6½ in; 45 pp. Grey wrappers, title in orange. Title page in orange & black. 300 copies printed under supervision of Martino Mardersteig. $17.50. “Well-printed and designed, but primarily of literay rather than typographic interest.”
The Four Winds Press (Locust Valley, NY). Wiliam Fish. A Last Will. 7 x 5 in; 38 pp. Linen spine and grey boards, 60 copies in 12 pt. Bembo on Ragston. $25.00.
The Janus Press. Thom Gunn. The Missed Beat, poems. 1976. 9 x 6½ in; 12 pp. Fabriano Ingres paper decorated in moss green over boards with black spine in matching slipcse. Wood engraving by Simon Brett. 220 copies issued as a joint publication of The Janus Press and Anthony Baker of the Gruffyground Press of Somerset, England. Handset in Times Roman printed on Okiwara paper by Claire Van Vliet. Signed by author. 50 copies in binding as above, $45. 170 copies in paper wrapapers available from the Gruffyground Press.
King Library Press. John C. Cozine. The Day-book account of . . . . a journey from Harrodsburg, Kentucky, to New York, and return, September 10th through November 27th, 1828. 8¼ x 5 in.; 64pp; Fabriano cover over boards in sage green with matching jacket dec. with old wood-engraving. Double page map in red and black; 5 prints from etchings of early city views. 100 copies on Hoso in Caslon Old Style. $30.
Meadow Press (Iowa City, IA). Michael Karl (Ritchie). for those in the know, poems. 1976. 9 x 6½ in; 18 pp; brown wrappers; 4 woodcuts of bare vegetal shapes printed in silver. 200 copies printed on Nideggen in Palatino with title in American Uncial in silver, repeated in black on cover. $5.
The Penumbra Press (Bonnie O’Connell, Lisbon, IA). Norman Dubie. The Prayers of the North American Martyrs. 10½ x 7¼ in; 25 pp; brown cloth with photo image of a hillside landscape in black on upper cover. 250 copies in Palatino with titles in Optima on Frankfort Cream paper.
Windhover Press. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Preface to This side of Paradise. Edited by John R. Hopkins. 12¼ x 6¾ in; 16 pp; green cloth, pasted label. 150 copies in Palatino on Rives Heavy paper. $7.75.
Warwick Press A Poem by Richard Frame. “Attractive 8 page booklet reprinting first published reference to paper in America.” $7.50.
Hillside Press (San Francisco). The San Francisco Earthquake. “A personal account originally written in 1906. Illus. With 4 tipped in photos copies from old negatives.” 6 x 6 in; 20 pp; wrappers. “Very nice and an excellent buy at $2.”
Rather Press. “Cliff & Lois Rather have produced a minature book account of their press in Oakland, Calif. 150 copies. $12.50 from Dawson’s Bookshop, 535 No. Larchmont, Los Angeles, Calif., 90004.”
I’m going to take a break from these posts, but will return in a few days. I need a break! There’s some good “stuff” coming down the pipe with several lesser-known presses on the horizon. TTFN.
N. B.: Corrected typo.
P. 40 has a short note welcoming Peter Koch & Shelley Hoyt-Koch’s Black Stone Press. I give here the note in full for those who find such details interesting.
Welcome to The Black Stone Press (P. O. Box 756, Missoula, MT 59801), apparently the only private press in the state. (It was. — RLH) Proprietors Peter Koch and Shelley Hoyt-Koch have won an NEA grant to study hand-bookbinding, paper-making and hand printing and will be traveling to California to investigate those processes. They would like the Black Stone Press to become a “laboratory” press where artists, printmakers and writers collaborate on the production of books and ephemera. In hand printing, Peter Koch finds “the most revolutionary of practices – that of making the world beautiful and slowed to human time.” Their first book (Born by Michael Poage – RLH) was noted in the April, 1976 issue of FP.
Also noted was the Pray Curser Press founded by Erwin R. Bergdoll (Elm Bank, Dutton, VA 23050) to produce prits, brochures and booklets.
Noted also that two books from Merker’s Windhover Press were selected for the AIGA Fifty Books of the Year: Master Peter Patelan (Selected Press Books, this issue), and Charles Olson in Connecticut (FP, July, 1975, p. 28).
Report on the death of Roberto Frontier of the Legatoria Piazzesi of Venice in an auto accident.
Selected Press Books
Abbatoir Editions (U. Nebr. at Omaha/Harry Duncan et alia).
Holding Out | Poems rendered from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rika Lesser with ‘A Note’ by Richard Howard. 1976. 12¼ x 8 in; 80 pp. 225 copies printed by hand in Bembo type with Romulus Open initials on Grand Moghul hand made paper from India. Half cloth copies with pasted label bound by Connie Sayre of the Black Oak bindery, $25; copies in full natural linen with pasted label, $15. “Lesser’s translation leaves one with the feeling of not having missed anything. Thus that most sought for harmony: one person’s hands lending true fulfillment to another person’s thoughts.”
Walter H. Clark, Jr. View from Mount Paugus and other poems. 1976. 9¾ x 6¼ in, 59 pp. 200 copies printed from Cloister Old Style capitals with Bembo Narrow Italic type on Antique Laid paper, by Timothy Anderson, Randolph Klauzer, and Harry Duncan. Grey tweed cloth, $7.50.
Angelica Press (New York). Wood Type of the Angelica Press. Designed by Dennis J. Grastorf on Curtis Tweedweave and Ragston paper. Text set in 12 pt. Garamone No. 3 with 36 pt. Garamond Italic for the heads and Goudy Oldstyle for the initial letters. 220 copies. Loose sheets, 20 x 13¼ in. In hinged box of dark varnished wood. Sheets enclosed in four dark blue folders labeled: A History (5 pp); The Fonts (46 specimen sheets with 8 double-page and 3 triple-page; How to Print Wood Type (8 pp including bibliography) with diagrams by Marilyn Grastorf. $135.00 plus $1.75 shipping (!).
Raamin-Presse (Germany). Christian Hofmann von Hoffmannswaldau Ausgewahlte Gedichte mit einundzwanzi Illustrationen von Roswith Quadflieg. 1975 10½ x 8 in, 46 pp. Text in 12 and 20 point Breitkopf Fraktur, initials in 36 pt. Oud Hollands. Design, manual typesetting, printing and colouring of the papers for the binding by Roswitha Quadflieg. Paper is French handmade Arton Arches. 60 numbered and signed copies; Nos. 1-10 with a loosely enclosed numbered and signed original etching, DM 450. Bound in mottled paper in soft hues of beige, pink and blue over boards with maroon leather spine. Signed by Quadflieg. “Some serious international attention is due this rising young printer of Hamburg....”
Windhover Press (Iowa City, IA). Master Pater Patelan a Fifteenth Century French Farce translated by Katie Franks. 1975. 10 x 5½ in, vii + 88 pp. 225 copies from handset Joanna types on Ragston paper. Woodcut illustrations from first printed edition of play, ca. 1465. Rust cloth spine, rust Japanese paper with white pin-stripes; white paper label. $16.25. (AIGA 50 books).
Recent Press Books
Abbatoir Editions.
Paul Dilsaver. Malginant Blues. 1976. 7¾ x 3½ in.; 31 pp. Handmade cover paper by Walter Hamady. 150 copies in Romulus Bold on Hosho Iyomasa paper. $5. “Savage poetry opening on title page with a startling phallic drawing by James Brunot in red and black.”
Greg Kuzma. A Day in the World. Poems. 10¼ 6¾ in; 88 pp. Green cloth. Original etching onf t. p. by James W. Mall. 200 copies in Joanna type on smooth Basingwerk paper. $10.
Marilyn Thompson. Saying Things. Poems. 9¾ x 6¼ in; 80 pp. Cloth spine and patterned boards. Oval linoleum cuts printed in russet inclu. one on t.p. 275 copies in Cancellaresca Bastarda and Romulus types. $12.50.
Sandy Campbell (NY, NY). E. M. Forster’s Letters to Donald Windham with comments by the recipient. Verona, 1976. 9¼ x 6½ in; 45 pp. Grey wrappers, title in orange. Title page in orange & black. 300 copies printed under supervision of Martino Mardersteig. $17.50. “Well-printed and designed, but primarily of literay rather than typographic interest.”
The Four Winds Press (Locust Valley, NY). Wiliam Fish. A Last Will. 7 x 5 in; 38 pp. Linen spine and grey boards, 60 copies in 12 pt. Bembo on Ragston. $25.00.
The Janus Press. Thom Gunn. The Missed Beat, poems. 1976. 9 x 6½ in; 12 pp. Fabriano Ingres paper decorated in moss green over boards with black spine in matching slipcse. Wood engraving by Simon Brett. 220 copies issued as a joint publication of The Janus Press and Anthony Baker of the Gruffyground Press of Somerset, England. Handset in Times Roman printed on Okiwara paper by Claire Van Vliet. Signed by author. 50 copies in binding as above, $45. 170 copies in paper wrapapers available from the Gruffyground Press.
King Library Press. John C. Cozine. The Day-book account of . . . . a journey from Harrodsburg, Kentucky, to New York, and return, September 10th through November 27th, 1828. 8¼ x 5 in.; 64pp; Fabriano cover over boards in sage green with matching jacket dec. with old wood-engraving. Double page map in red and black; 5 prints from etchings of early city views. 100 copies on Hoso in Caslon Old Style. $30.
Meadow Press (Iowa City, IA). Michael Karl (Ritchie). for those in the know, poems. 1976. 9 x 6½ in; 18 pp; brown wrappers; 4 woodcuts of bare vegetal shapes printed in silver. 200 copies printed on Nideggen in Palatino with title in American Uncial in silver, repeated in black on cover. $5.
The Penumbra Press (Bonnie O’Connell, Lisbon, IA). Norman Dubie. The Prayers of the North American Martyrs. 10½ x 7¼ in; 25 pp; brown cloth with photo image of a hillside landscape in black on upper cover. 250 copies in Palatino with titles in Optima on Frankfort Cream paper.
Windhover Press. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Preface to This side of Paradise. Edited by John R. Hopkins. 12¼ x 6¾ in; 16 pp; green cloth, pasted label. 150 copies in Palatino on Rives Heavy paper. $7.75.
Warwick Press A Poem by Richard Frame. “Attractive 8 page booklet reprinting first published reference to paper in America.” $7.50.
Hillside Press (San Francisco). The San Francisco Earthquake. “A personal account originally written in 1906. Illus. With 4 tipped in photos copies from old negatives.” 6 x 6 in; 20 pp; wrappers. “Very nice and an excellent buy at $2.”
Rather Press. “Cliff & Lois Rather have produced a minature book account of their press in Oakland, Calif. 150 copies. $12.50 from Dawson’s Bookshop, 535 No. Larchmont, Los Angeles, Calif., 90004.”
I’m going to take a break from these posts, but will return in a few days. I need a break! There’s some good “stuff” coming down the pipe with several lesser-known presses on the horizon. TTFN.
N. B.: Corrected typo.
2Shadekeep
Another good mix of knowns and unknowns. Neat to see the arrival of Black Stone Press, quick on the heels of Aralia in a previous thread.
Have you, or anyone else here, seen any of the output of the Rather Press? They were mentioned in other of these posts and I'd not heard of them before. Curious what their output is like.
Have you, or anyone else here, seen any of the output of the Rather Press? They were mentioned in other of these posts and I'd not heard of them before. Curious what their output is like.
3ChestnutPress
>1 Glacierman: I love the typo for the Janus Press ‘The Missed Beat’ as it gives a whole new imaginary feel to the book! It’s a typical gem from Claire Van Vliet and it made a great first poetry publication for Anthony Baker’s Gruffyground.
4Glacierman
>3 ChestnutPress: ooops! Transcription error! Fixed.
5ChestnutPress
>4 Glacierman: Shoulda left it alone — it was perfect!!
6DenimDan
Abbatoir Editions. Paul Dilsaver. Malignant Blues. 1976. 7¾ x 3½ in.; 31 pp. Handmade cover paper by Walter Hamady. 150 copies in Romulus Bold on Hosho Iyomasa paper. $5. “Savage poetry opening on title page with a startling phallic drawing by James Brunot in red and black.”
Here's a couple pics of this one. They were spot-on, calling the poetry "savage." The titles of the poems alone probably violate LT rules!
Here's a couple pics of this one. They were spot-on, calling the poetry "savage." The titles of the poems alone probably violate LT rules!
