Upcoming Fine Press Books

With so many presses, old and new, producing wonderful books, it’s a great time to be a collector. I’ve created a new page on The Book Blog with upcoming fine press books. If there’s something that you think would be a good fit here feel free to email me (contact page on the website) or leave a message here.

http://thebookblog.com/upcoming-fine-press-books/

>1 CTPress-Tony: a great resource! Thanks!

>1 CTPress-Tony: This is outstanding! Arion's next 3 releases are known. Also maybe include Thornwillow (leaving out the dispatches?). The inclusion of Books Illustrated is interesting. It looks like your list is focused on "pure" fine presses (or private presses) which only do letterpress publications. Books Illustrated has one letterpress book so far, and none of their numerous other publications have been letterpress - if occasional letterpress publishers are included this would include Suntup and Curious King (and even Centipede has 2 planned letterpress pubs I think). TOC Berlin could be another candidate for inclusion. You are also leaving out a lot of other presses such as Angel Bomb , Pegana etc. but the line has to be drawn somewhere...

>1 CTPress-Tony: Good stuff, thank you!

I believe the next Lyra’s Books title - "The Picture of Dorian Gray" - is public now. It's also the first to come under their Lyra’s Classics imprint.

>4 Shadekeep: Dorian Gray is now fully reserved, but the next Lyra’s Classic is A Christmas Carol!

>3 punkzip: From the ones you named, Pegana is definitely a fine press well-worthy of inclusion, with multiple upcoming editions announced!

Curious King has yet to publish their own title, but they are advertising as a fine press in collaboration with Rich Tong and do have an upcoming title (The Blade Itself).

Angel Bomb and ToC both print letterpress, true, but don't really represent themselves as fine presses or otherwise aim for fine press publishing goals, though both make very nice productions.

To include Suntup or not is an age-old question, but in this case they really don't announce far enough ahead to be worth including in a blog IMO.

>1 CTPress-Tony: Great that someone is keeping tabs on everything, thanks! You could also add Nomad Letterpress / Whittington Press (Pages from Presses II recently announced, and Oiseaux de France - anyone ordered that one?). Also, Hand and Eye's WITW is still technically forthcoming...and available.

>4 Shadekeep: I see that both Dorian Gray and A Christmas Carol are already included under 'Lyra's Classics'. The next 'Lyra's Press' book has yet to be announced.

>7 Levin40: Oops, my bad, I missed the Lyra’s Classics section as being separate. Apology! Curious as well as to what the next Lyra’s Books title will be.

>5 NathanOv: A Christmas Carol does look tempting!

>1 CTPress-Tony: Thank you for putting together this resource. You are picking up where Books & Vines left off.

Thank you very much for creating such an overview. I'm already very tempted to buy one of the titles I've seen there.

>6 NathanOv: "To include Suntup or not is an age-old question ..."

Age-old? Suntup Editions has only been around since 2018, about 4 years.

>11 abysswalker: A bit of hyperbole. "Frequently discussed, and without much consensus" is a bit more accurate.

>1 CTPress-Tony: regarding the Arete Editions offerings, the Fine edition of The Case of Death and Honey is still available to purchase.

>1 CTPress-Tony:
This is a great resource!
A possible inclusion could be: Corvus Works has an edition of the Pied Piper coming out relatively soon: https://corvusworks.co.uk/work-in-progress

No Thornwillow Ulysses? They've been a little slow to get the order page up on their website, but my understanding is that it should be up soon.

>14 921Jack: "Corvus Works has an edition of the Pied Piper coming out"

Thank you for the heads-up! I think I'll have to reserve that. I quite like The Lambton Worm from there.

Thanks for the feedback everyone, and happy that it's of use. I've added Pegana, Thornwillow, Whittington, Suntup and Corvus Works, while updating Arion and Arete.

>17 CTPress-Tony: Love the site! Thank you

Just spoke with Katie Beard at Rooksmoor Press. Her forthcoming title Minstrel's Song from Ælla is expected to be completed May or June and will be offered for £30. She has placed me on the subscription list and I would expect would do the same for anyone else interested in this title. I think this could make both a beautiful and affordable acquisition for those of us who are newer to fine press and/or on a budget.

>19 Shadekeep: Thanks for the press reference! Just ordered her little booklet Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat. Hey, we're cat lovers here. Now I'm going to have to get the book from which this was excerpted, Jeoffry:The Poet's Cat. A Biography by Oliver Soden.

This little booklet will join the Golden Cockerel Press printing of Cats (Les Chats)by Moncrif.

>20 Glacierman: Sorry to hijack the thread (but since it's about cats . . . ) some additional fine press cat books you might also like:

Mark Twain Concerning Cats: Two Tales, San Francisco: The Book Club of San Francisco (1959). Printed at the Grabhorn Press for The Colt Press. 450 copies.

Chester Bailey Fernald The Cat and the Cherub. Berkeley: Printed for A.M. Bender by Wilder & Ellen Bentley (1938). Illustrated by Lloyd Hoff. 150 copies.

David Catt My Ascent of Grizzly Peak: The Adventures of a Middle-Aged Gentleman (1950). 16pp. Frontispiece of the author. Handset type. Original stiff marbled wrappers, white label printed in black on front cover. One of only 50 copies printed for the friends of David Catt at the Grabhorn Press by his 'Benefactors,' Dorothy and Jane Grabhorn, and David Magee. The Grabhorn bibliography states, quite honestly, that "This book is for aelurophiles, not mountaineers." Yes, in fact, David Catt was a Tabby. Grabhorn 503.

Jane Grabhorn One Hundred & Sixty Cats Proverbs & Proverbial Similes San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem (1969). "This edition is limited to 300 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem San Francisco, California March 1969 WASITA CATISAW".

And, of course, T.S. Eliot Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. London: Faber & Faber (1939). 3,005 copies.

>19 Shadekeep: Thank you for this. I love the Letterpress edition of Letters from Titanic that they are involved in as well

>20 Glacierman: Not to be catty, but of course there is the Arion Press' Morte de Smudgie, which I haven't seen or read but is probably delightful.

And I'm not sure I understand the copyright issues and if it all was on the up and up but I do have one of the 200 copies of the Ithys Press edition of The Cats of Copenhagen, which is delightful.

>21 dpbbooks: I hate you. 😀

While we're on the subject, I need a fine press edition of T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats! Can someone make this happen? Haha

>20 Glacierman: A pleasure! Jeoffry is on my pull list as well, I'm hoping to get it shipped with Minstrel's Song. And I'm keen on getting the original book too!

>22 Praveenna_Nagaratnam: That sounds quite interesting. Do you have a link for that work? What I've seen of Katie's work really impresses me so far.

EDIT: Ah, I found this regarding Letters from Titanic - https://www.instagram.com/p/CaVJjJrrLcF/
So it's a forthcoming book. And it's coming out from The History Press who, not coincidentally, just published an edition of Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat. ^_^

>20 Glacierman:
There’s also the Incline Press “When in Doubt, Wash”: https://www.inclinepress.com/shop/naming-of-cats

And… what about dogs? 😀

>28 BorisG: For dogs there is the Limited Editions Club printing of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog). Red Hydra Press puts out a couple canine-themed titles, ZEKE and The Dogs of Havana. And if there's a fine press edition of J. R. Ackerley's My Dog Tulip, that would be a good one too.

Back on cats, stumbled across Cats' Dream (Sueño de gatos) from The Aliquando Press. And of course Poe's The Black Cat from Thornwillow.

>29 Shadekeep: My ultimate dog book is The Call of the Wild, the LEC's version being clad in a cozy flannel "shirt" :)

>28 BorisG: There is A Dog's Life in Letters from Foolscap Press, a charming and whimsical little book.

>31 ultrarightist: Can't forget "Dialogue of The Dogs" when discussing Foolscap's dog books!

This conversation has gone to the dogs. 😀

>32 NathanOv:
Nor the Allen Press “Dialogue of the Dogs”!

Doggone it!

>25 Nightcrawl:
As soon as they (Old Possum) are in the public domain I will be looking at doing this :-)

>19 Shadekeep: probably a silly question, but do you know what kind of materials will be used for the boards? Or is it just paper wrappers?

>37 RRCBS: I'm not quite sure, actually, as the photos don't give away the game. @Rooskmoor_Press, can you tell us a bit more about the planned binding for Minstrel's Song from Ælla?

Oh, and consider me on that subscriber list for Old Possum whenever it happens. ^_^

Received further information on the upcoming Letters from Titanic. This is from the prospectus and his reply:

This limited edition collates a selection of the most moving and poignant letters
and postcards to be sent from RMS Titanic, prior to her untimely sinking
in the early hours of 15 April 1912. Carefully curated by George Behe, this
selection of letters tells the lamentable story in the unique and powerful way
only true first-hand accounts can. Included are biographies of each writer, and
an introduction by George Behe.

Set and cast in ‘Monotype’ Imprint with Gill Sans Light and Caslon display.
The Imprint typeface was designed in 1912, the year of Titanic’s fateful voyage.
In the same spirit of pioneering technology, it was the first type to be designed
specifically for machine composition and was to prove that new technology
could be just as good as the traditional hand-composed type.

This edition will be letterpress-printed on 150gsm Bockingford mould-made
paper and hand bound at the craft bindery of Blissetts, Royal Warrant Holders
in London. Each copy will contain a piece of letterpress printed ephemera,
reproduced from original material.

Only 250 numbered copies of this edition will be printed,
priced at £300 per copy, publishing Autumn 2022

For pre-orders and enquiries please contact Ian Pearson:
ipearson@thehistorypress.co.uk

Typeset and cast by Gloucester Typesetting Services, designed by
Rooksmoor Press and letterpress-printed at the Stonehouse Fine Press

Copies can be reserved with an initial deposit of £75. The book is a numbered edition, and numbers will be allocated as we receive deposits.

By writing to him in advance you should be able to place a deposit a week before it is opened to the public for subscribing, thus ensuring your copy ahead of time. He can also send you a prospectus PDF and color sample PDF.

Any ideas what will be the pricing for Centipede Press' POWERS OF DARKNESS? Those woodcuts look amazing!

New book coming from Black Letter Press - Pantographia. Here's the blurb on it:

Pantographia by Edmund Fry, London 1799, contains more than two hundred alphabets. This book is full of curiosities, like Chaldean 1. Fry traces this to the French scholar and astrologer Jacques Gaffarel (1601 - 1681). There is a woodcut depicting the hemispheres and their constellations, from which Fry drew his Cælestial alphabet. Gaffarel in turn borrowed the alphabet from Guillaume Postel (1510 - 1581), the polyglot French linguist, astronomer, Christian Cabalist, and di­plo­mat. However, Postel was not its creator; it first appeared in the third book of Agrippa’s De Occulta Philosophia.

They are taking preorders now with a 15% discount. Since shipping is pretty high I usually pad my orders from them with another book. This time I grabbed Melville's Timoleon & Other Ventures in Minor Verse.

Just added Hester . Emma . Sonia from Intima Press and Letters from Titanic from The History Press to the website - http://thebookblog.com/upcoming-fine-press-books/

>41 Shadekeep: What are their books like quality wise? Are they similar to, say, a standard FS book? Thinking of ordering a few titles.

>42 CTPress-Tony: Excellent, thank you!

>43 RRCBS: I would say there is more variance from book-to-book than FS, in terms of the cover style and paper used. Their books strongly remind me of those I have owned from the early 1900s, as many have soft tooled, ornate covers. The papers are generally firm and bright. I certainly think they are worth the asking prices, particularly for those titles which are difficult to find in a decent edition otherwise. Someone more experienced here could weigh on the exact merits of things like the binding and such, but personally I am quite happy with their work. I'd be happy to provide further insight into any particular titles you are considering which I have bought.

>44 Shadekeep: I’m interested in the Horror Classics and the Rimbaud volume. Do you have any of those?

>44 Shadekeep: Do you have their Emblemata set?

>45 RRCBS: I do not have those yet, but have been tempted more than once to splash out on the Rimbaud books. I think I will probably give in to those eventually, especially if they have a promotion discounting them. I did buy the Grimoire set for my partner and she is quite pleased with them. I agree that they are nice editions.

>46 ultrarightist: I do have the Emblemata volume, it is my favorite book from them so far. It is superb in both contents and construction. Natural Magick is a fine book as well, but if I were going to recommend any single volume from this imprint, it would be Emblemata.

Christopher at Corvus Works is now taking orders for The Pied Piper of Hamelin. There are two different bindings on offer, as shown below. (I went with the yellow spine, love that cover art.) There is more info available on his Instagram account as well.

Just received an email from Areté Editions, work is progressing on Frozen Hell (with illustrations by Greg Manchess) and Brave New World (with illustrations by Allen Jones). Looking forward to both of these.

>49 Shadekeep: As am I. Both are definite purchases for me.

Received a KS update that A Printer’s Garden of Ornament is being printed now. Pre-ordering is open on the website as well. This is a letterpress book of typographic ornaments, available in two different bindings and likely to be limited to around 100 of each.

New book out from Intima Press - The Tragedy of Othello / The Tragedy of Desdemona.



https://intimapress.com/the-tragedy-of-othello-the-tragedy-of-desdemona/

>16 Shadekeep: The Corvus Pied Piper has been out quite a while now. Next up from the press is an essay by the great Jack Stauffacher

>53 ChestnutPress: Indeed it has, it's a lovely book. Christopher has a number of promising titles in the pipeline, happily.

Upcoming from Greenboathouse Press is 'If the winds come' by Jason Dewinetz.

Upcoming from Gaspereau Press are 'Makeready: an interview with Gray Zeitz of Larkspur Press' and 'Stilt Jack', a poetry collection by John Thompson.

A way off yet from Nomad Letterpress, but well worth the wait, is their book on wood engraver Paul Kershaw.

>55 ChestnutPress: 'Makeready: an interview with Gray Zeitz of Larkspur Press'

One I'd like to get, as a fan of Larkspur, but a bit out of my price range at the moment. If anyone does get it, I'd love to see more photos.

>56 Shadekeep: it's certainly not a pennies book, but it will be superb. I shall certainly post pics on my Insta.

>55 ChestnutPress: Is there a Gaspereau Press newsletter or are you getting your updates from elsewhere? I've mentioned to them a few times that I'd love to stay up to date with new release, particularly of their "Henry" series, but have only discovered their last three editions by browsing, and in one case after it had already sold out.

>58 NathanOv: I saw it posted on Instagram, which I only reluctantly joined because of my niece, who is a musician and entertainer. Since joining I now follow a lot of fine presses on there, but totally understand any desire to remain at a distance from social media. Hopefully there is another channel for announcements as well.

>58 NathanOv: Sadly, there is no newsletter. I get my info straight from the horses mouth, as I'm in regular contact with Andrew Steeves. I'd suggest the best way to keep up to date is the Gaspereau Instagram, which Andrew posts project info and updates on quite regularly.

>57 ChestnutPress: There was an update on Makeready today. Sadly still a bit of a luxury item for me, so I'll be looking forward to your pictures.

>61 Shadekeep: It'll be a handsome book, no doubt. It'll be a stretch for me after a barrage of recent and imminent purchases, but I can't not have it! Presently enjoying 'Typographic Environments' (the latest fine volume from Corvus Works) and awaiting my special of Martyn Ould's 'Only The Printer Knows', which will hopefully arrive tomorrow. It's not a bad life we lead, is it!

>62 ChestnutPress:

Same. Awaiting the "A" variant of 'Only the Printer Knows'.

However, what I am REALLY waiting for from Martyn Ould and the Old School Press is their forthcoming edition of 'Washi Memories: Handmade Papermaking in the Fukushima Province of Japan' and another attempt at publishing 'Twelve Poems from the Manyoshu', the project that was waylaid by theft of a large trunk containing 1,000 sheets of Japanese handmade paper with Japanese woodblock illustrations at FedEx/Memphis last year. Both editions should be outstanding.

Latest newsletter from The Old School Press is out, with more details and photos of the forthcoming Washi memories. Promises to be a real treat for paper lovers.

Received two prospectuses from Angel Bomb for upcoming titles The Beast In The Cave by H.P. Lovecraft and The Things, a companion to the Who Goes There? release. Scans below.

>65 Shadekeep: I saw that the Beast in The Cave is now open for preorder with a few additional details on the website.

>66 NathanOv: Good deal, thanks for the update!

Just for those that didn't see in the other thread, Nomad Letterpress is taking orders on The Hill:

https://www.nomadletterpress.com/thehill

A Joseph Thies (not sure if he is here on LT) posted on one of the Small Press FB pages the following, which I thought might be valuable to this thread. His post:

What's in the Works????
So I was thinking about forthcoming titles.... I thought I'd share what I have heard to expect from various publishers and hopefully others will share as well and we can all learn together. I don't believe I am revealing any "secret" info here nor would I want others to do so.
Amaranthine: Catch - 22; 2001 a space odyssey; Sherlock
Ampersand: Master and Commander
Anderida: Sun eater series
Arete: Brave New World; Frozen Hell; Lud in the Mist; The Color Purple; The Razor's Edge; Orlando; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Arion: Slaughterhouse Five; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Winnie the Pooh
Beehive: Pinnochio
Books Illustrated: Inkheart; The Starless Sea (maybe I'm wrong about this??)
Broodcomb: ?
Centipede: Neuromancer; Shadow of the Torturer; Ghost story; Shadowland; best of weird tales the 1920's; Masters of the weird tale Charles Grant; wind up bird; we have always lived in the castle; geek love; club Dumas; Kane; cold moon over Babylon; the dragon waiti; ring world; the dying earth
Conversation Tree: Peter Pan; Flowers for Algernon; Weird Tales Series
Curious King: The Broken Earth Trilogy; Hyperion Cantos; Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Deep Wood Press: ?
Earthling: Dune
Egaeus: The Fortunate Isles
Extraordinary Editions: Mr PYE
Grim Oak: Book of the Ancestor Trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry Trilogy, Faithful and Fallen, The House in the Cerulean Sea, Moon Called
Hand and Eye: ?
Lividian: Gone South; Joe hill books
Lyra's: Coraline, wizard of Oz; lost world; alchemist
Mad Parrot: The Machine Stops
Nawakum: ?
No Reply: Preludes Vol. 2
Pegana: Annals of the Jinns; ??king in yellow??
Phantasia: ?
Side Real: Vampire
SST: ?
St. James Park: 1984 and Animal Farm; beauty of Byrne
Subterranean: green bone saga; live ship traders; empyreal retinue
Suntup: The Last Unicorn; Hellbound Heart; American Gods; (maybe someday Pillars of the Earth); amity like horror; psycho
Swan River: ?
Tangerine: W.S. Burroughs The Frisco Kid
Tartarus: ?
Thornwillow?
Undertow: ?
Zagava:
- The Complete Works of Avalon Brantley
- More lettered editions of the world of R. Ostermeier (Broodcomb Press)
- the best of Peter Bell
- The Egotist by Philip Fracassi
- The mirror remembers

Additionally, James Freemantle posted in the SJPP thread that after Euclid, he would be working on "the Story of the One Eyed Giant (Odyssey), and then Milton’s Paradise Lost!".

>69 Aleks3000:

Thank you very much for this overview.

>69 Aleks3000:

Excellent list. Thank you.

I would add Nomad Letterpress - Pages from Presses II. Although the "C" edition has been shipped, the "B" edition is still forthcoming and available for purchase. Also, The Hill is forthcoming later this year as well.

>69 Aleks3000:

69 dude.

Just handing out the rights to Dune like candy eh....I'm always predisposed towards any limited edition of Dune but the mockup on the website looks....pretty bad, especially for $650. More like something Subterranean Press would do...

>72 dlphcoracl: FWIW I don’t believe the A edition is still available for purchase

>74 Objectr:

You are correct and the post has been amended. Thanks!

Has anyone seen an update on Angel Bomb's The Beast in the Cave? The website indicates that orders will start on May 1, but that does not appear to have happened.

>76 ultrarightist: https://www.angelbomb.com/shop-2/the-beast-in-the-cave

>76 ultrarightist: I'm able to add it to the cart from this page, give it a try:

https://www.angelbomb.com/shop-2/the-beast-in-the-cave

I didn't check out though, so can't confirm the complete process works.

EDIT: Aaaaand simulposting again... :D

>77 SolerSystem: and > 78 Thank you

Looks like the Books and Shop sections of the website are not synched.

>79 ultrarightist: I was able to order a few days ago

Centipede Press is doing Wind Up Bird Chronicle? Was that in the newsletter at some point?

>81 jskalitz: July 2021 mention of securing rights.

I learned through a back channel of another book that Centipede has in the works which I haven't seen an announcement of yet. Can't say more at this time, but given conversations elsewhere here, I think some folks will really be pleased.

A few others I don’t see listed that spring to mind:

Barbarian: A Marriage of True Minds, Bordering on the Sublime, Pastoral Elegies, True North: The Art of Eric Bergman, The Sheperd’s Calendar, Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Centipede: At the Mountains of Madness (letterpress)

No Reply: The Waste Land

Centipede also announced in the last newsletter that they secured the rights to Thomas Ligotti titles "Grimscribe" and "Songs of a Dead Dreamer" which will be released as separate books.

>83 Shadekeep: You mean the letterpress edition of At the Mountains of Madness or something else?

Cordes Press will be releasing an edition of The Moon Moth by Jack Vance around December. Details towards the bottom of the page here: https://www.cordespress.com/projects-3

I spoke to Kevin about it a few months back and he's got some really exciting ideas for it.

>86 ultrarightist: It's a different one, one which to my knowledge has not been divulged yet. Though I am looking forward to ATMOM as well.

After reading last week's newsletter from The Old School Press, I reserved a copy of their upcoming Washi Memories.

I think the combination of text including recollections from the papermakers, large number of black and white photographs from the 1950s, plus the tipped in samples of beautiful Japanese papers, is going to make this book something quite special. Not to mention typically excellent printing from the Old School Press, Japanese calligraphy, and the suminagashi paper for the binding!

In one of the previous updates, they mentioned that there will be no de-luxe copies: "we've decided to throw everything at the standard copies".

Here's a bit of an unexpected one - The 007 Diaries by Roger Moore. A fine press edition is being put out by The History Press, printed by Rooksmoor Press, who previously collaborated with them on Letters from Titanic.

No web page for the upcoming book yet, but it was teased on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct_0KW9shXh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=...

>90 Shadekeep: Thank you so much for sharing this! The edition looks and sounds amazing.

Looks like pre-order links are up: https://mailchi.mp/thehistorypress/007-diaries

>91 BooksFriendsNotFood: Thanks for finding the link! Sounds like a pretty good edition all around. Katie at Rooksmoor does sterling work.

>92 Shadekeep: I'm glad to hear it! I have no doubt that the final book will look & feel stunning. (I watched Live and Let Die yesterday just to appropriately build up the anticipation haha!)

Gaspereau Press has released their latest work, Blue River by Aldo Leopold. Deliberately designed and priced at $40 to be accessible to all collectors.

>94 Shadekeep: An absolutely necessary, no-brainier of a purchase!

>94 Shadekeep: And free shipping within Canada; easiest decision of the year for sure.

Greenboathouse Press is teasing their upcoming book If the Winds Come on social media and it looks pretty dang special. Hopefully they'll release more to the public soon.

There's a really nice, new fine press edition of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi from The Prototype Press! It seems to be themed around the Chuck Jones animated adaptation and even houses a USB with the film in the slipcase. It's printed letterpress, half-bound in black goat leather, and features some neat gold-foiled typeface as well. It'll set you back $1,500.

https://www.theprototypepress.com/product-page/rikki-tikki-tavi-by-rudyard-kipli...

>98 BooksFriendsNotFood: I have been waiting for this. Unfortunately, too expensive for me

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>94 Shadekeep: I received my copy today, and it is quite beautiful! Absolutely worth the price. Thank you for posting about it!

>101 Salaxalans: Happy to enable and glad you enjoy it!

Washi Memories from Old School press will have a lettered state and ten copies will be produced:
https://www.theoldschoolpress.com/

New title coming from Larkspur Press, more details in the revived thread here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/304634#8222280

A quick summary of books that are scheduled to be published in the remainder of 2023 (note: we all know how THAT goes!!) that are of particular interest. This is NOT a comprehensive listing of all fine & private press books due later this year. Rather, it is a list of books I have already subscribed to and reserved that I think warrant a closer look from members of the LT FPP. In no particular order:

1. Washi Memories - The Old School Press
2. The Moon Moth by Jack Vance - the Cordes Press
3. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - No Reply Press (NRP)
4. Sci-fi trilogy (Omelas, The Men Return and The Last Question) - NRP
5. M. Arden of Feversham - Tudor Black Press
6. Peter Pan with Charles Vess illustrations - Conversation Tree Press
7. Coraline - Lyra's Books
8. The Beauty of Byrne - St. James Park Press. Note: Animal Farm is due to be published in 2023 as well, but it has sold out.
9. Greenboathouse Press - If the Wind Comes. A poetry collection from proprietor Jason Dewinetz

>105 dlphcoracl: I wasn't aware that The Beauty of Byrne is available for order yet. I've ordered 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7.

>106 kdweber:
My orders are identical to yours.

>106 kdweber:
>107 wcarter:

It isn't. I intend to order it when it becomes available shortly(?). I believe it is still James Freemantle's intention to publish it in 2023 along with Animal Farm.

P.S. M. Arden of Feversham by Hugh Macfarlane and his Tudor Black Press is not to be missed (imho). The standard edition of 70 pages printed on an 1833 Albion handpress is priced very favorably at 200 GBP pre-publication.

>108 dlphcoracl: I've never bought anything from the Tudor Black Press and ordering is not as easy as with most publishers as one has to contact the press directly. Based on some recent threads, I ordered Lohengrin and Doctor Faustus about a week ago and they're currently on the way. If they hold up to my expectations, I may order M. Ardern of Feversham.

> 105 From your list I have ordered 1, 2 (only because of LibraryThing chatter, and it will be the first work from the Cordes press I have sampled), 3, 4, 5 and 9.

Old School Press is also hoping to release 'On Books' in December, Corvus Press is working on G B Palatino The Theorist which I assume is this year, and the Fleece press is planning on releasing their final books. All of these are still available to order (though not all states).

I am looking forward to to Gaylord Schanilec's Midnight Paper Sales publication of Patricia Hampl's account of the first year of Covid, "It's Come to This". There is arguably no finer wood-engraver and printer alive than Mr. Schanilec.

>105 dlphcoracl: Jason kindly sent me an early copy of If the Wind Comes for my upcoming exhibit, and it's gorgeous. I don't have any books in my collection with quite its style of binding – fairly unique. Greenboathouse should be at the top of any list for private press collecting.

Regarding the NRP books, the Science Fiction Trilogy will ship by the end of the month as planned – about ten packages are out the door every day. Ivan Ilyich will follow shortly thereafter, though I'll be reaching out to collectors individually to confirm addresses and shipping options.

Brief mention and a couple photos for The Woman in White, upcoming from Hand And Eye, here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cwprm22NHc_/

At 700-odd pages it will be one of the biggest projects we've ever undertaken. Angela Barrett is currently working on illustrations and we hope to publish in 2024.

Seems like it'll be a good one!

Another photos was teased for the 2023 release from Greenboathouse Press, If the Winds Come.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx9ChTqPWUA/

Quite liking the cover style. What's especially impressive about the binding is that each book has a custom ink painting on the inside, and the cover relief is created in echo of that. So each binding is unique as well.

Geert de Koning from Factotum Pers has been posting images of his forthcoming Het twistgesprek tussen de vlieg en de mier ("The quarrel between the fly and the ant") on Instagram . It's looking great, and as with all of his works, you don't need to read Dutch to appreciate the artistry of his printing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyTJsNKNr5p/
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0ouZPMIUdz/

>110 DMulvee: Corvus Works ‘Giovanbattista Palatino’ is now available to order. Essays by Stanley Morison ‘Palatino: The Theorist’; James Wardrop Palatino and his circle; ‘Tools of Handwriting’, notes from the 1540 manual. Note on Zapf’s naming of his Palatino type face by Sebastian Carter. 60 pages of text in black, red/orange and green/grey on Somerset Book, plus 8 of plates on Zerkall. Handset in Stempel foundry Palatino types, 16D with 10, 12, 14, 24 and 36D. Quarter bound with cloth spines and paper over boards on the sides. 180£.

>116 corvusworks: A really handsome volume, Chris. The presswork is, as always, utterly impeccable!

A reminder that there are comprehensive lists of Fine Press and Quality Press publishers, both past and present, on the Fine Press wiki here.

>117 ChestnutPress: Thank you. 🙏

The Old School Press has a fascinating project on the slate for release next year. It's Plates for a Herbal, and you can read more about it here:

https://theoldschoolpress.com/bookpages/PFAH.htm

Sounds like a large book in a small run, so likely to be a pricey and later hard-to-obtain title. Hoping to secure one myself, the topic is one I enjoy.

Muttons & Nuts are publishing the Velveteen Rabbit in an edition of 50 (37 still available) and is up for preoder now:
https://www.muttonsandnuts.co.uk/product-page/the-velveteen-rabbit

I have their book "A Miniature" and I'm really happy having it.

>120 Shadekeep:

The Old School Press is one of those private presses I try to find excuses for buying from if the book is remotely of interest. Most of their bibliography involves the history of typography and printing, especially as it relates to the history of the now-defunct Oxford University Press. However, their series of books involving Venice and their recent edition of Washi Memories, regarding the rapidly fading art of handmade papermaking in Japan, are well worth seeking out. Martyn Ould does some wonderful stuff and at very reasonable prices.

>122 dlphcoracl: I do need to add more of their output to my collection. At the moment I just have Palladio's Homes, which is a beautiful volume. There are a number of other titles from them which appeal. And I admit to being intrigued by their livre d'artiste Alchemy of the Planets as well.

Factotum Pers has released Het twistgesprek tussen de vlieg en de mier now, the page is here: https://factotumpers.nl/bonvesin2-link/

I've requested one of the parchment-backed deluxes, of which there are 12 (plus 60 linen-backed regulars). I expect fellow FP enthusiast ChestnutPress will grab another.

>122 dlphcoracl:
>123 Shadekeep:

I think the Palladio book is great. It was one of the first expensive fine press books I bought and is still a favourite. I remember at the time I couldn't believe I was spending this much on a single book! Now, in the current landscape, it seems like very good value for such a large (14" x 10") and substantial volume, flawlessly printed on handmade Italian paper. I guess the subject matter might feel a bit niche to some, but the whole production really carries the day. The paper used for the boards has a genuine wow factor.

I'm also really looking forward to their revised edition of Twelve Poems from the Manyoshu. I'm sure it will still be a splendid book with the woodcut illustrations now printed digitally.

>124 Shadekeep: Ditto!

>124 Shadekeep: Thanks for the enablement (I guess!). Beautiful books from a press I didn’t know at all. Bought a deluxe ‘Twistgesprek’, as well as Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament and the last remaining deluxe of ‘Die Kunst der Fuge’.

>127 BorisG: Glad to share, and you've made some excellent choices. I also very much enjoy Geert's first Bonvesin da la Riva book, and his Openbaring van Johannes is stunning, with its black relief cover. (It's also a very large book, surface-area wise.) Hope you enjoy your purchase!

Incidentally, I heard from Griffin that all of the deluxes of the new book are fully claimed now, so kudos to Geert for having them subscribed so quickly.

>127 BorisG: Darn, got my hopes up thinking this was German, such good quality too…

>123 Shadekeep:
>125 GardenOfForkingPaths:

If you wish to add another title from The Old School Press to your collections, I have a suggestion for a delightful older edition that has been overlooked:

Tonge's Travels by George Tonge, 2001.

This is the diary of an undergraduate at University of Oxford touring the Mediterranean by boat during the summer of 1857. Rather than doing the traditional Grand Tour of the notable European capitals and cultural centers during the summer between his first and second year, Tonge decided to board a tramp steamer heading to the Mediterranean in search of a cargo of currants. This alone should tell you that George Tonge was not wrapped very tightly and was not your typical Oxford undergraduate. The ten-week journey takes him to Gibraltar, Genoa, Pisa, Naples, Vesuvius, Pompeii, Corinth, Athens and back via Algiers. The trip is a series of misadventures and Tonge proves to be a very sharp and slightly sarcastic observer of the mayhem that ensues.

The book is rectangular (230 x 300 mm) and it is letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine paper. Portions of Tonge's account are handwritten in the wide page margins by calligrapher Patricia Gidney and printed letterpress as well. It is profusely illustrated with an original suite of watercolors and B & W sketches by John Watt. The dustwrapper is illustrated with a sketch that wraps around the covers and it is also printed letterpress. The watercolors are evocative and capture the various Mediterranean scenes and cities beautifully. Aside from its large size, this book has a very Barbarian Press feel to it. It was issued as 290 bound copies and 40 loose copies for binders. (see link)

https://theoldschoolpress.com/bookpages/TT.htm

The cost? An astonishing 80 GBP!

Treat yourself and pick up a copy as an inexpensive Holiday Season present to yourselves. Trust the dlphcoracl on this one.

https://uen.pressbooks.pub/mythologyunbound/chapter/the-delphic-oracle/#:~:text=....

>130 dlphcoracl: That looks delightful, it reminds me of the AP The Voices of Marrakesh.

>130 dlphcoracl: Happy to see the two column layout used for the rectangular book. Makes it much easier to read.

Would have been nice to see another illustration; the one shown is great.

>131 kdweber: That book also came to mind for me as well!

>132 What_What: Does this help regarding the photo’s

https://theoldschoolpress.square.site/product/tonge-s-travels/34?cp=true&sa=...

In addition to >133 paulm16:, here are a couple more internal pics showing the illustrations for the sections on Pompeii, Athens and Corinth in Tonge's Travels. In the latter you can see an example of the handwritten excerpts at the bottom of the page. I agree with >130 dlphcoracl: about all the merits of this book. I have to confess I haven't read it yet, so I'm pleased to hear the enthusiasm for the text itself. Underneath the attractive dust-jacket it's a completely unadorned brown cloth binding; an appropriate choice for a diary.

The price does seem remarkably low for a book of this length, quality, and with all the different elements involved.

Aaaand… enabled, thank you all :)

>133 paulm16: >134 GardenOfForkingPaths: Thanks for the additional photos all!

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Gaspereau Press has been showing off bits of Folklore of Lunenburg County, a new poetry volume by Michael Goodfellow. More details to come, the cover is shown being letterpress printed, hopefully the same for the interior.

>138 Shadekeep: Gaspereau letterpress prints the jackets for all of its trade editions, so I wouldn’t assume that this will be a letterpress title. Nevertheless, their trade editions are beautifully made and an excellent value. I wouldn’t let the fact that they’re not letterpress prevent you from acquiring any that interest you.

https://www.dunwich.ca

>140 dlphcoracl: Thanks for the heads up. The two higher states are already reserved.

>141 SDB2012:

I opted for the slipcased state as I collect books, not art. The books in the slipcased and clamshell box states are nearly identical (5 vs. 8 illustrations) and the additional $1,000. is primarily for the separate portfolio of first-state proofs of the eight intaglio prints.

>142 dlphcoracl: I opted for the slipcased edition as well, but if I understand correctly the boxed edition actually has the three extra illustrations bound in, and also features painted endpapers.

Otherwise the same though!

>143 NathanOv: That is my understanding as well.

Hi all -

just to clarify what is admittedly a muddy story: the copies issued in a box contain all 8 of the aquatints being created for the project; the copies in a slipcase contain just 5 (tho not all the same five...). Also, some of the interior aspects of the binding for the boxed copies will be different. And there might be something else in the box, we'll have to see. But dlphcoracl is essentially correct: much of the premium reflects the additional prints, in the book & portfolio.

>138 Shadekeep: That book is just letterpress on the exterior. It will be a superb volume, though, as even the trade editions from Gaspereau are exceptional examples of fine bookmaking. They are a masterclass in the difference care, attention and typographic skill make to ‘normal’ books.

The next fine press offering from Gaspereau will be ‘Sorts Bountiful’, which is a collection of Andrew Steeves’s essays on fine press and bookish matters. I expect this will surface this year.

>139 ChampagneSVP: Absolutely this!!

>145 H-M: Such a stunning-looking edition, Rollin!!

>139 ChampagneSVP: >146 ChestnutPress: Thank you both. I had expected it was one of their trade editions with the letterpress cover, but wasn't sure. I have a few books like that in my collection from other presses, too. And I will look forward to Sorts Bountiful, thanks for the heads-up on that!

>145 H-M: Fantastic looking edition, thanks for the update!

>140 dlphcoracl: Thank you for highlighting this! I managed to submit an order for the slipcased version before they sold out

I am on the waitlist for the slip cased version. :(

>152 Chemren: It's funny, I've been chatting with Rollin about this and other HM projects directly, and still missed the announcement window and chance to subscribe. tarde venientibus ossa

Missed it too. Shame.

>121 c_schelle: Thank you! I have started printing the text for 'The Velveteen Rabbit', so hopefully it wont be too long in production.