New Work
¶ These books, chapbooks and broadsides 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.
Please note that while the Press is not releasing any books until January 2026, you are invited make contact and reserve a copy at any time, and with no obligation.
American customers should be aware that they will be required to absorb any additional handling charges or tariffs resulting from their government’s trade policy.
I Hope Yet to Produce Good Work
A letter by FREDERIC GOUDY
Limited edition casebound book
Projected release in January 2026
While reading Dard Hunter’s memoir My Life with Paper (Knopf, 1958), I came across a partial transcript of a letter that Hunter received from the noted American type designer Frederic Goudy in 1923. Hunter operated a small paper mill in the neighbourhood of Marlborough, New York, between 1913 and 1917, which Goudy had viewed while property scouting in rural New York State with the intention of establishing his own microfoundry. Goudy was fifty-eight years old at the time he was embarking upon this major transition in his career. This little book includes the except from Goudy’s letter and a brief commentary written by myself.
Specifications: Typeset in Linotype Janson. Printed in black, green and grey on Hahnemühle Bugra mouldmade paper. The sheets were folded, gathered with doubled endpapers, handsewn and trimmed to 13 ×21.5 cm. Casebound with cloth spine and brown Hahnemühle Bugra printed pattern paper over boards. Black paper label on the front board printed in grey. Issued in a printed paper wrapper.
12 pages + doubled endpaper sections
Limited edition of 80 numbered copies
CND $75 + shipping & taxes
On the Use of that Questionable
Term ‘Handmade’ as it Relates to
Contemporary Letterpress Books
An essay by ANDREW STEEVES
Limited edition chapbook
Projected release in January 2026
From the very beginning of the craft of letterpress printing, printers have employed machines of one variety or another, so why do so many of the people who produce letterpress books play fast and loose with the term ‘handmade’? In this short essay, Andrew Steeves discusses this controversial question.
Specifications: Typeset in Linotype Sabon and Wilhem Klingspor Schrift. Printed in black and blue on Stella machine-made paper. The sheets were folded, gathered into a single signature, handsewn and trimmed to 13.5 ×22 cm. Bound with a three-hole stitch in a black endsheet printed in blue-tinted opaque white, a black paper cover printed in blue-tinted opaque white and a mouldmade paper wrapper printed in three colours from wood and metal type. Housed in a paper envelope printed in two colours.
12 pages + end leaves
Limited edition of 170 numbered copies
CND $25 + shipping & taxes
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]
Resistance: Reflections on
Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’
An essay by JEFFREY S. CRAMER
with illustrations by AMOS PAUL KENNEDY, JR
and Thoreau’s essay ‘CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE’
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 edition presents Thoreau’s famous piece together with an original essay 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. Sheets printed by Amos Kennedy at Kennedy Prints! in Detroit will be folded down and bound into the book. Doubled endpapers. Casebound, cloth and paper over boards. Housed in a slipcase.
64 pages + fold-out prints + doubled endpaper sections
Limited edition of 80 numbered copies
CND $1250 + shipping & taxes [Estimated]
