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Fourteen for the Hare
Poetry by VARIOUS AUTHORS
Limited edition casebound book
September 2026
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Thinking Louder & Clearer
From the journals of HENRY DAVID THOREAU
No. 8 in the ‘Henry’ chapbook series
Limited edition chapbook
Available now
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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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Harmony and Small Shops
An excerpt from an essay by CARL PURINGTON ROLLINS
Limited edition chapbook
Projected release in October 2026
¶ This chapbook is a short meditation on the merits of small printing offices by the American printer Carl Purington Rollins (b. 1880). Before he embarked upon his celebrated career at Yale University Press in 1918, during which he set new standards for excellence in American scholarly publishing, Carl Purington Rollins (1889–1960) spent a decade as the proprietor of a small rural printshop at Dyke Mill in Montague, Massachusetts. The paragraphs presented here are excerpted from ‘Harmony of Hand and Machine,’ an address Rollins gave in 1932.
Speculations: Typeset in Linotype Electra. Printed in black and a spot colour on 100 lb. Mohawk Superfine paper. The sheets will be folded, gathered into a single signature, handsewn and trimmed to roughly 14 × 22 cm. Bound with a three-hole stitch in a black endsheet, a black paper cover and a paper wrapper printed from wood and metal type. Housed in a paper envelope.
8 pages + endsheet
Limited edition
Price to be determined
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Resistance in the Manner of
Thoreau
An essay by JEFFREY S. CRAMER
with prints by AMOS PAUL KENNEDY, JR
Limited edition casebound book with portfolio of prints
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 by hand in Monotype Baskerville. Printed in black and a spot colour 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 spine and paper over boards. Map-sized 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 an enclosure yet to be determined.
24 pages + doubled endpaper sections
Portfolio of prints
Limited edition of 60 numbered copies
CND $800 + shipping & taxes [Estimated]
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