New Work
¶ These books, chapbooks and broadsides were recently released or are forthcoming from the Press of the Varying Hare. Please inquire by email should you wish to order or reserve a copy of any of these titles. Prices and specifications are subject to change as the books go into production and projections are reconciled against reality.
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Thinking Louder & Clearer
From the journals of HENRY DAVID THOREAU
No. 8 in the ‘Henry’ chapbook series
Limited edition chapbook
Projected release in early May 2026
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I Hope Yet to Produce Good Work
A letter by FREDERIC GOUDY
Limited edition casebound book
Available now
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On the Use of that Questionable
Term ‘Handmade’ as it Relates to Contemporary Letterpress Books
An essay by ANDREW STEEVES
Limited edition chapbook
Available now
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Fourteen for the Hare
Poetry by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Limited edition casebound book
Projected release in Fall 2026
To celebrate the founding of the Press of the Varying Hare, fourteen writers with close associations to the Proprietor were invited to contribute new poems for an anthology. These authors include: Lindsay Bird, Michael Goodfellow, Clare Goulet, Sue Goyette, Sylvia Hamilton, Jim Johnstone, Annick MacAskill, Natalie Rice, Matt Robinson, Peter Sanger, Bren Simmers, Rob Taylor, John Terpstra and Harry Thurston. The authors were encouraged to write ‘sonnet-sized’ poems, but—perhaps predictably—the contributions are quite varied in morphology. This will be the first book project to be undertaken in the new printshop.
Speculations: Typeset by hand in Monotype Dante. Printed in black with some spot colour on 120 gsm Zerkall wavy-laid paper, mouldmade in Germany. The sheets will be folded, gathered, handsewn and trimmed to 16.5 ×25.4 cm. Doubled endpapers. Casebound, cloth over boards. Housed in a paper phase box.
48 pages + doubled endpaper sections
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies
CND $400 + shipping & taxes [Estimated]
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Resistance in the Manner of
Thoreau
An essay by JEFFREY S. CRAMER
withillustrations by AMOS PAUL KENNEDY, JR
Limited edition casebound book
Projected release in Spring 2027
Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay ‘Civil Disobedience’ (also known by its earlier title, ‘Resistance to Civil Government’) is one of the seminal American literary texts on resistance, protest and engaged citizenship, a work that remains relevant and useful today nearly two centuries after it was written. This book presents a new essay about the work by Jeffrey S. Cramer and a suite of lively wood type prints created by Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.
Jeffrey S. Cramer is Curator Emeritus of The Walden Woods Project Library in Massachusetts. He is the editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition (2004), I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (2007), The Maine Woods: A Fully Annotated Edition (2009) and Essays by Henry D. Thoreau: A Fully Annotated Edition (2013), all published Yale University Press. His The Portable Thoreau (2012) and The Portable Emerson (2014) were both published by Penguin.
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., is a letterpress printer based in Detroit, Michigan, who is best known for his riotous and colourful wood type posters and prints that address various social justice themes. Kennedy has been featured in the New York Times and the Economist, and his work has been exhibited by the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and many other institutions through the United States. He was the subject of the 2008 documentary, Proceed and Be Bold! and, more recently, the lavishly illustrated retrospective book Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.: Citizen Printer (2024).
Speculations: Typeset in metal type and various wood types. Printed in black with various spot colours on 130 gsm Hahnemühle Bugra Butten paper, mouldmade in Germany. The sheets will be folded, gathered, handsewn and trimmed to 19 ×28 cm. Doubled endpapers. Casebound, cloth and paper over boards. Sheets printed by Amos Kennedy at Kennedy Prints! in Detroit will be folded down and housed in a portfolio. Both the book and the portfolio will be housed in solander box.
24 pages + doubled endpaper sections
Portfolio of prints
Limited edition of 80 numbered copies
CND $1000 + shipping & taxes [Estimated]
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