When finishing the hand binding of a single signature book, a decision must be made where to tie off the knot: inside or outside of the cover. On the outside, the knot and the extending thread will be immediately visible. If tied off at the center […]
Archive | Letterpress poetry books
Poetry for the underdog
It’s not often when a budding poet reaches into our hearts while exploring the depths of his experiences, but that’s precisely what Nicholas Coughlin did when he took a poetry class at the University of Minnesota. His poetry isn’t something mystical, something with cavernous meaning, something impenetrable. It’s just poetry meant for ordinary readers. As I […]
Robinson Jeffers’s broadsides, hidden treasures
Two additional Robinson Jeffers’s broadsides Here are two more Robinson Jeffers’s broadsides, both of which were printed by Marlan Beilke at his Quintessence Working Press-Room Museum in Amador City, California. In a pair of other posts (and here) I listed some of the other Robinson Jeffers’s broadsides that I have discovered recently. In some cases there […]
Robinson Jeffers’s treasure trove discovered!.
This past week I uncovered some rare Robinson Jeffers letterpress-printed broadsides. There are only a few of these beauties remaining. In the coming days I will be listing each of them in my blog posts. These broadsides are available on a first-come, first-serve basis and when they are gone, as the saying goes, they are GONE. […]
Rare Linotype broadsides discovered
I have discovered a pair of rare broadsides celebrating the eighth-wonder-of-the-world, the Linotype. These were designed, typeset and printed by Marlan Beilke, otherwise known as Linomarl. Marlan printed these broadsides during the years he operated his print shop/museum in Amador City, California. He later moved to Wisconsin. When he closed his California hot metal heaven […]
A woman’s search to publish her poetry book
A commissioned work by Elva Cowdery Her bucket list book When Elva Cowdery contacted me a few years back, she had a bucket list of projects to complete, one of which was to publish a poetry book she had written. As with many projects on our bucket lists, her book rested there for sometime until […]