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Publisher’s RepresentativesPublisher’s Note

A is nothing if not total immersion in opposing sensations

of high culture and low humor. I always have the unnerving feeling that most of the inhab-

itants have boarded the express train while I’m still waiting for the local. In one day, one

can (as I did) visit a publishing house routinely churning out six hundred titles a year, enjoy

sushi for lunch with a world-class photographer named Builder Levy and a top-flight book

designer named Jerry Kelly, swing by the French Embassy to discuss the state of French lit-

erature with three very helpful young ladies devoted to promoting its culture, and, finally,

attend an awards ceremony at the tony New York Society Library where one of our favorite

authors, Joe McKendry, received the New York City Book Award for his quite sensa-

tional One Times Square. His mother (who hadn’t visited New York since high school) was

also there, along with his father, and the book’s editor and designer, Carl Scarbrough. It was

a proud moment for everyone.

Sandwiched between these professional encounters was a visit to the Swann Auction

Galleries, an unpretentious enterprise on East th Street that routinely sells works of art

on paper (including books) at prices ordinary mortals can afford. Tomorrow they will be

selling books by master typographers such as Rudolf Koch, Jan Tschichold, Hermann Zapf,

Bruce Rogers, and Joseph Blumenthal, and books printed by Maeght, Mourlot, William

Rudge, the Grabhorn Press, and the Officina Bodoni, among many others. I will bid on

some of these books and will probably prevail, occasionally. But the point of the exercise

(and perhaps of this note) is not only the acquisition and possession of these books

(although I’d be the last to deny that their acquisition is perversely satisfying), but the expe-

rience of viewing, handling, evaluating, and yes, even owning them. Through these activi-

ties, I manage to stay in touch with my own roots, and to a great degree, with the roots of

this company, which started as a printer in a deserted Brookline cow barn.

And hopefully this connection to what amounts to a grand tradition shows plainly in

the pages of this catalogue (one of the few still printed on paper). These titles of our fall

list – in their editing, design, and production – demonstrate our preference for quality over

quantity, for precision over sloppiness, for watching the small details and hoping that larger

results, in the form of sales, will take care of themselves. Some titles, like Loxley’s biogra-

phy of Warde, will never find a large audience; others, like Barbara Robinson’s biography

of Rosemary Verey, have surprised us all with their reach and attraction. Some will only

sell hundreds, others thousands, but they are all, as we like to say: “Books that Matter for

People Who Care.” And we commend them to our readers with all possible enthusiasm.

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The Education of a Craftsman

World: David R. Godine

Seeking the North Star

North America: David R. Godine

Appalachia USA


Bibliotheca Salmo Salar


Seacoast Maine


Never Back Down


Exteme Opposites


I Saw Three Ships



by Peter Korn

O craftsman as an independent, cre-

ative individual dates back to William Morris and the

Arts and Crafts movement of the late nineteenth and early

twentieth centuries. Romantic as that image may be, the status

and income of a practicing “craftsman,” whether boat builder,

potter, weaver, or woodworker, has always been tenuous, and

remains so to this day. As much as we might covet or applaud

handmade products, they cannot, and do not, compete in the

general marketplace. Craftspeople work at the margins of con-

temporary society, and the fault lines can, at times, offer a

revealing perspective on the cultural landscape.

In this moving account, we follow Korn’s search for meaning

as an Ivy-educated child of the middle class who finds employ-

ment as a novice carpenter on Nantucket, morphs into a self-

employed designer/craftsman of fine furniture, takes a right

turn into teaching woodworking and design at Colorado’s

Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and finally founds a school in

Maine: The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, an interna-

tionally respected, non-profit institution teaching design, furni-

ture making, and related arts to over students a year.

This is not a “how-to” book in any sense. Korn wants to get

at the why of craft, in particular, and at the satisfactions of cre-

ative work, in general – to understand their essential nature.

How does the making of objects both reflect and refine our

own identities? What is it about craft and creative work that

makes them so rewarding? What is the nature of those rewards?

How do the products of creative work inform society? In short,

what does the process of making things reveal to us about our-

selves? Korn draws on four decades of hands-on experience to

answer these questions eloquently, and often poignantly, in

this personal, introspective, and revealing inquiry.

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furniture maker since , he is

also the author of several how-to

books, including the bestselling

Woodworking Basics: Mastering

the Essentials of Craftsmanship

(Taunton Press, ). His furni-

ture has been exhibited nationally in

galleries and museums.

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by John R. Silberforeword by Tom Wolfe

I worked in Boston at any point during

the last half century, you were aware of a force emanating

from an increasingly influential institution on the banks of

the Charles River; the institution was Boston University and

the force behind it was John Silber. From his induction in

until his retirement in , Silber was unrelenting in

improving the standards and quality of his university. What

he may have lacked in tact, he more than made up for in intel-

lectual brilliance, wide-ranging vision, and stubborn advo-

cacy. A professor of philosophy, celebrated for his work on

Immanuel Kant, Silber was a humanist in the tradition of Jef-

ferson, Holmes, Whitehead, and Barzun.

The best of the man is revealed in this selection of his writ-

ing, speeches, essays, and articles, collected from over forty

years of vigorous engagement. Here he speaks as a philosopher,

educator, parent, and political observer and participant (ahead

in the polls, he would have been elected Governor of Massa-

chusetts had he not run afoul of Channel Five’s beloved Natalie

Jacobsen. The famous incident is recounted in high style in

Tom Wolfe’s Foreword). Silber tackles issues including educa-

tion at all levels, culture and the media, democracy and inter-

national affairs. Delivered from to , the speeches

offer his incisive reflections on the Vietnam War, Watergate,

student activism of the seventies, the bombing of Hiroshima

and Nagasaki, developments in science and technology, the

increasing power of the media, global corporations, and many

other issues. His style is lively, crisp, and pointed, spiked with

his acerbic wit and guided by an ongoing search for wisdom.

Silber was a model of probity and integrity in both his pri-

vate and his public life, an intellectual pessimist and a congen-

ital optimist. Even as he brought Boston University from a

sleepy and fast-declining “streetcar college” to a major educa-

tional institution, he spoke out on topical issues and princi-

ples on which our human fulfillment and national identity

depended. Inspiring many, infuriating some, his was a life that

mattered, and a voice worth listening to.

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in San Antonio in . The seventh

president of Boston University, he

was, in addition, the first chairman

of the Texas Society to Abolish Capi-

tal Punishment, a leader in the racial

integration of the University of Texas,

a member of the founding committee

of Project Head Start, a member of

President Reagan’s Bipartisan Com-

mittee on Central America, the

Democratic nominee for Governor of

Massachusetts, and Chairman of the

Massachusetts Board of Education.

His books include Straight Shooting:

What’s Wrong with America and

How to Fix It, Architecture of the

Absurd: How “Genius” Disfigured a

Practical Art, and Kant’s Ethics. Sil-

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john r. silberSEEKING THE NORTH STARselected speeches

Appalachia USA, –

by Builder Levy

D of alternative energy, coal still

powers most of our power plants and steel mills. The

story of its extraction, and of the people who live, work, suffer,

and endure in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, has

been a source of fascination bordering on obsession for the

photographer Builder Levy. For four decades, he has been wit-

ness to an industry that has changed from miners working

underground with picks and shovels to draglines, mechanical

earth movers that can tear apart mountain summits to expose

veins of coal in massive, and massively destructive, quantities.

He has witnessed strikes and picket lines, desperation and

rage, hope and dignity, and the predictable natural disasters

(and disasters waiting to happen) that are part of the territory.

Inspired by the great photographers working in the humanist

tradition – Lewis Hine, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, to name a few

– Builder Levy is a part of and a contributor to that continuum.

Intertwining the traditions of fine art, social documentary, and

street photography, Appalachia USA is an aesthetically and

socially significant book that celebrates the human spirit; it is this

human spirit that shines through the coal dust – in the blackened

faces of miners, in mothers struggling to feed their children, and

in ravaged but resilient communities. Levy’s photographs and

accompanying captions capture the tension, the dignity, and the

enduring humanity of this troubled corner of America.

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appeared in more than two hundred

exhibitions, including over fifty one-

person shows. His photographs are in

more than fifty public collections

around the world. He has been

awarded fellowships from the

Guggenheim Foundation, the Puffin

Foundation, and the National Endow-

ment for the Arts. Monographs of his

work include Images of Appalachian

Coalfields () and Builder Levy

Photographer (), and his pho-

tographs are featured in more than

twenty books. He lives in New York

City with his wife, Alice Deutsch.

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from the collection of Charles B. Wood III

E generates its own literature, but few

outdoor sports have generated as much enthusiasm and

literature – some of it incredibly esoteric, most of it interest-

ing, and some of it downright irresistible – as salmon fishing.

It is not an inexpensive sport. All salmon demand clean, fast-

moving, fresh water, and the Atlantic salmon, which often

returns as many as five times to the same rivers to spawn and

can attain weights of over sixty pounds, have seen their south-

ern runs entirely eliminated by dams, pollution, and commer-

cial fishing. What remains are the few closely guarded rivers of

Canada, Iceland, Great Britain, and Scandinavia – all of them

relatively inaccessible. All of them beautiful. All of them damn

expensive to fish.

Charles Wood, a distinguished antiquarian bookseller, has

been pursuing these fish for decades, and he has also built up

what is probably the most extensive collection about the sport

in private hands. For this selective bibliography he has chosen

of what he considers the most interesting titles (some of

them so rare that they might be encountered only once in a

lifetime) and arranged them by country and publication date.

All titles are illustrated. What makes the book a real pleasure is

the knowledge he brings to bear – not only as a bookman, but

also as a reader and a fisherman. He knows the rivers; in many

cases he knows the people who fished them and wrote the

books. And he knows what qualifies as quality, whether it is an

elusive and fugitive mimeographed account of an excursion to

a Norwegian river or a deluxe full leather quarto containing

an original salmon fly. So this is no dry, pedantic list of

“famous books,” but rather a fascinating and illuminating

journey into a world of piscatorial lore, adventure, and

description.

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and has fly-fished since the age

of ten. A graduate of Trinity College,

Hartford, and the University of

Pennsylvania, he has run his own

rare book business, specializing in

architecture, the arts, and related

subjects. Although he does not deal

in angling books, he has published

several collectors’ items, all on the

subject of salmon fishing. The thrill

of the chase, in book dealing, book

collecting, and salmon fishing, is

what keeps him engaged.

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Seacoast Mainephotographs by George Tice

F five decades, George Tice has been

photographing the landscape of America, and a number

of his images have become icons of their time and field. But

Maine – its rockbound coastline, its precarious and isolated

islands, its independent and hardworking people – holds a par-

ticular affection. His focus here is emphatically not a landscape

transforming itself all too quickly into the bland, conventional

palette of the twenty-first century, but a Maine we all want to

re member, a coastline we perhaps visited at one time and grew

to love. The quadtone photographs provide a record com-

parable in scope to Szarkowski’s portrait of Minnesota and in

sympathy to Evans’s elegy to Alabama, from the fogs off East-

port to the lobster boats off Monhegan, from the grain eleva-

tors of Portland to the Shakers of Sabbathday Lake.

The Hand of the Small Town Builder

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by W. Tad Pfeffer

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tury saw an explosion of what we now call “new home

construction.” Middle-class families, able to build second

homes, could seldom afford “name” architects, and relied

instead on native builders, talented craftsmen familiar with

the local resources. The houses they built were sensitive to

topography and connected to the landscape, small master-

pieces of vernacular design. From the seacoast and islands of

Maine to the hill towns, lakes, and rivers of Vermont and New

Hampshire, Pfeffer has thoroughly researched and thought-

fully photographed the best examples. His text is rich with his-

tory and commentary, a poignant record of the master

craftsmen whose subtle but powerful influence on the north-

ern New England landscape remains alive, relevant, and still

intact in the landscape to this day.

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Never Back Downby Ernest Hebert

In this, Ernest Hebert’s most autobiographical novel to date, Jack Landry,

haunted by dreams of a tragedy that occurred centuries before he was born,

is introduced as a promising high school baseball player from the mill town

of Keene, New Hampshire. A young boy when the novel opens in July ,

Jack and his best friend, Elphege Beaupre, devise a motto to live by: Never

back down, never instigate. It’s a rule Jack will follow to the end of his days

of menial labor, joie de vivre, and a love that just won’t die.

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Borstal Boyby Brendan Behan

This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: “Friday, in the

evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: ‘Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred

Heart, Boy, there’s two gentlemen here to see you.’ I knew by the screeches

of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health.” The

men were, of course, the police, who knew seventeen-year-old Behan for

the anti-imperialist terrorist he was and arrested him. After three years in

an English Borstal (reform school), he returned to his homeland, a

changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned, Borstal Boy is both a riv-

eting story of individual adventure and a clear look into the problems, pas-

sions, and heartbreak of Ireland.

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Five Women

by Robert Musil

The Austrian Robert Musil (-), a central figure in the modernist

movement, is known primarily for his magnum opus, The Man Without

Qualities. But here, in these five stories – stories as crucial to the under-

standing of The Man Without Qualities (and Musil’s immense literary influ-

ence and significance) as Joyce’s Dubliners is to Ulysses, he displays another

face, one that is by turn extravagant, sensual, mystical, and autobiographi-

cal. As Frank Kermode notes in his preface, these stories “are elaborate

attempts to use fiction for its true purposes, the discovery and regeneration of the human world.” In

that redefinition of modern fiction, Robert Musil’s name is writ large.

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Extreme Oppositesby Max Dalton

T come with a warning: These are

not your ordinary opposites, they are EXTREME!

Extremely funny and extremely clever, that is. Those old, hum-

drum pairings neither yawning parents nor woefully wide-

awake children want to hear night after night, year after year –

hot and cold, tall and short, the list goes on – have no place in

this catalog of catastrophically mismatched antipodes.

The brainchild of Argentine artist Max Dalton (The Lonely

Phone Booth, Godine, ), Extreme Opposites combines

superlatives and opposites to create a book that is both peda-

gogically superior (why teach your three-year-old just one

grammatical category when she could be learning two, simul-

taneously?) and superlatively engaging. Knights and dragons,

castaways and off-hour Santas, dinosaurs and pirates, mimes

and scuba divers populate this imaginatively superior uni-

verse. And with just two words per page, you and your little

one will have more time to linger over the irresistible illustra-

tions and relish this recital of reverse attractions. Opposites

have never been more droll, and less dull, than in graphic

artist Max Dalton’s all too amusing Extreme Opposites.

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drawing since he was two or three

years old. Max has too many inter-

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painting to playing music and read-

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favorite is drawing. He is the illus-

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Pizza in Pienzaby Susan Fillion

in English and Italian

What do children and adults love in equal measure? Food!

And what food inspires raptures like pizza? Here is its essen-

tial history, told by a charming Italian girl who lives in Pienza

and whose favorite food is . . . well, you can guess it – pizza.

Life in Pienza is pretty old-fashioned, and our young heroine

knows everyone on the street and at the market by name. She

comes home from school at midday to eat meals with her

family, but in between her snack of choice is pizza, and her

favorite place is Giovanni’s, where the eponymous chef pre-

pares pizza the old-fashioned way – in a hot brick oven heated

by a wood fire. Her grandmother, of course, makes it by hand

and teaches her how. Her love of pizza even leads her to the

library, where she learns all she can about this ancient and

ever-popular food. And so do we, and even some Italian! (Full

translation provided, along with a recipe for Pizza Margherita.)

The Tyger Voyageby Richard Adams

illustrated by Nicola Bayley

Here, for readers young and old, is a new edition of the

beloved classic, The Tyger Voyage, fraught with suspense and

adventure, water snakes, molten lava, and footloose gypsies. In

this beguiling tale “of noble deeds and travels bold,” Raphael

and Ezekiel Dubbs, two proper gentleman tygers, set sail in a

leaky “tub” into the unknown. Together they roam across the

seas, through jungles, and past ice-covered mountains and

erupting volcanoes to be rescued at last by a troupe of hos-

pitable gypsies. Eventually they return in triumph to England,

join the lecture circuit, and regale staid Victorian London with

tales of their extraordinary travels. As the concerned narrator

confesses, “I think it only goes to show / With tygers, that you

never know.”

First published in the U.S. in and enthusiastically

embraced, The Tyger Voyage topped the adult bestseller lists.

We’re delighted to return it to print in a new large-format,

full-color hardcover edition.

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A Farmer’s Alphabetby Mary Azarian

Before she became a Caldecott medalist, Mary Azarian was a teacher in one

of Vermont’s last one-room schoolhouses. In the late s, the state board

of education commissioned her to create “a farmer’s alphabet,” a series of

bold red-and-black woodcut prints featuring the letters, A to Z, and

depicting scenes from Vermont life. Here, gathered in a large format and

printed in two colors, are woodcuts giving us a child’s-eye view of rural

New England – from Apple, Barn, and Cow to aX, Yawn, and Zinnia – a

homey, large-as-life world that readers of every age will want to inhabit.

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The Mary Azarian Address Book& The Mary Azarian Greeting CardsRight after we published Mary Azarian’s A Farmer’s Alphabet, some mar-

keting genius in the company suggested the alphabetical images could eas-

ily be converted into an address book. This we did, and the spiralbound

× ˝ version sold out and was reprinted twice. We still get so many

requests for it that we decided to issue a new and improved version, con-

taining not only the standard address and phone numbers, but also e-mail

addresses and cell phone numbers to bring it into the new millennium.

And to compliment the address book, we are offering handsome greeting cards with a

selection of images from A Farmer’s Alphabet, sure to delight that lunatic fringe that still

believes that a handwritten note, on good paper and contained in a classy envelope, says

something about the sender and is more welcomed, absorbed, and remembered than an e-mail.

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The Great Piratical Rumbustification & The Librarian and the Robbers

by Margaret Mahywith pictures by Quentin Blake

Two hilarious short stories for children, the first about the century’s wildest

Pirate Party, the second concerning the kidnapping of a beautiful, clever

librarian by wicked robbers and her efforts to rehabilitate them by intro-

ducing them to the demanding marvels of the Dewey Decimal System.

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Rotten Islandby William Steig

Life is pretty much aces on Rotten Island – if you’re rotten. But one

day the volcanoes settle down and the monsters tire of fighting, and

out of the gravel pit a beautiful flower begins to grow . . . Steig’s largest,

and certainly his most colorful, creation. Among the great monster

books of all time, with the typical Steigean genius for language.

“Not since Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are has there been

such a glorious nightmare of a book.” —People

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Beneath the Streets of Boston ’

by Joe McKendry

Through detailed and historically accurate narrative and artwork, Joe

McKendry guides you through the subterranean realm of Boston’s

famed , where the archetype of the American public transit system

was created.

“A lucid and elegant picture of the colossal engineering and construction

work that went into building our first-in-the-nation subway.”

—Boston Magazine

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The Lonely Phone Boothby Peter Ackerman

illustrated by Max Dalton

Put your quarter in the slot and consider this story of one of the

few remaining phone booths in New York City. Everyone used

the transparent booth, until the day a businessman strode by,

shouting into a shiny silver object. Soon everyone was talking

into these shiny silver devices, and the Phone Booth stood alone.

How the neighborhood unites to insure its survival is the heart

of this urban saga, among our best-selling books for children.

“Cultural history of the best sort.” —Publishers Weekly

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I Saw Three Shipsby Elizabeth Goudge

illustrated by Margot Tomes

A moving, lyrical, and endearing chapter book, celebrating the magic as

well as the mystery of Christmas, this is our first title by Elizabeth

Goudge, mistress of the art of storytelling. Charmingly illustrated with

ink drawings by Margot Tomes, it is a perfect Christmas read-aloud for

young children and parents looking for something unabashedly senti-

mental and bracingly wholesome. It even contains the music & lyrics.

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A Child’s Christmas in Walesby Dylan Thomas

illustrated by Edward Ardizzone

The definitive color edition of Dylan Thomas’s classic Christmas story.

The lilting prose captures all the wonderment, nostalgia, quiet bliss, and

gentle melancholy of Christmas in Swansea in a time and world gone by.

“It’s the sheer acrobatic brilliance of the language here that we most

love.” —Publishers Weekly

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Lucy’s Christmasby Donald Hall

illustrated by Michael McCurdy

Set at the turn of the twentieth century, illustrated with colored

engravings by Michael McCurdy, this fetching, old-fashioned

story by our masterful former poet laureate, brings the reader

back to an old-fashioned, pre-mall, wholesome New England

Christmas, one centering around homemade presents and

family, based on the childhood stories of the poet’s own

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Publisher’s RepresentativesPublisher’s Note

A is nothing if not total immersion in opposing sensations

of high culture and low humor. I always have the unnerving feeling that most of the inhab-

itants have boarded the express train while I’m still waiting for the local. In one day, one

can (as I did) visit a publishing house routinely churning out six hundred titles a year, enjoy

sushi for lunch with a world-class photographer named Builder Levy and a top-flight book

designer named Jerry Kelly, swing by the French Embassy to discuss the state of French lit-

erature with three very helpful young ladies devoted to promoting its culture, and, finally,

attend an awards ceremony at the tony New York Society Library where one of our favorite

authors, Joe McKendry, received the New York City Book Award for his quite sensa-

tional One Times Square. His mother (who hadn’t visited New York since high school) was

also there, along with his father, and the book’s editor and designer, Carl Scarbrough. It was

a proud moment for everyone.

Sandwiched between these professional encounters was a visit to the Swann Auction

Galleries, an unpretentious enterprise on East th Street that routinely sells works of art

on paper (including books) at prices ordinary mortals can afford. Tomorrow they will be

selling books by master typographers such as Rudolf Koch, Jan Tschichold, Hermann Zapf,

Bruce Rogers, and Joseph Blumenthal, and books printed by Maeght, Mourlot, William

Rudge, the Grabhorn Press, and the Officina Bodoni, among many others. I will bid on

some of these books and will probably prevail, occasionally. But the point of the exercise

(and perhaps of this note) is not only the acquisition and possession of these books

(although I’d be the last to deny that their acquisition is perversely satisfying), but the expe-

rience of viewing, handling, evaluating, and yes, even owning them. Through these activi-

ties, I manage to stay in touch with my own roots, and to a great degree, with the roots of

this company, which started as a printer in a deserted Brookline cow barn.

And hopefully this connection to what amounts to a grand tradition shows plainly in

the pages of this catalogue (one of the few still printed on paper). These titles of our fall

list – in their editing, design, and production – demonstrate our preference for quality over

quantity, for precision over sloppiness, for watching the small details and hoping that larger

results, in the form of sales, will take care of themselves. Some titles, like Loxley’s biogra-

phy of Warde, will never find a large audience; others, like Barbara Robinson’s biography

of Rosemary Verey, have surprised us all with their reach and attraction. Some will only

sell hundreds, others thousands, but they are all, as we like to say: “Books that Matter for

People Who Care.” And we commend them to our readers with all possible enthusiasm.

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Bibliotheca Salmo Salar


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Never Back Down


Exteme Opposites


I Saw Three Ships


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