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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
World: David R. Godine
Bibliotheca Salmo Salar
World: David R. Godine
Seacoast Maine
World: David R. Godine
Never Back Down
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Exteme Opposites
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I Saw Three Ships
North America: David R. Godine
The Education of a Craftsman
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
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Woodworking Basics: Mastering
the Essentials of Craftsmanship
(Taunton Press, ). His furni-
ture has been exhibited nationally in
galleries and museums.
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Seeking the North Star
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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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-
ber died in .
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
N in the late nineteenth cen-
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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The Education of a Craftsman
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Seeking the North Star
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Appalachia USA
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Bibliotheca Salmo Salar
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Seacoast Maine
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Never Back Down
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Exteme Opposites
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I Saw Three Ships
North America: David R. Godine
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