Fine Prose
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARIA CALLAS: A NOVEL by Alma H. Bond. Fictionalized account of the tempestuous, passionate, creative life of Callas."Weds fact and fiction into an extraordinary portrait..."--Joy Davidson, mezzo-soprano. 224 pages. Trade soft: $17.95. (ISBN: 0-913559-48-2) $17.95. Trade cloth: $27.95 (ISBN: 0-913559-49-0).
BEOWULF, translated & illustrated by Bertha Rogers.
"Rogers's ten illustrations supply insight into her treatment of the translation...derived from Anglo-Saxon art...yet with a contemporary edge..." Chelsea Review. 136 pages.Letterpress soft: $20. (ISBN: 0-913559-58-9. Limited cloth: $65.
A BRIEF, ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE BOOKSHELF, drawn & written by Marshall Brooks. Excursion into the little-known realm of how bookshelves came to take their many fascinating forms. "Brooks's book speaks volumes about the allure of shelving..."--Worcester Telegram/Gazette. 64 pages. Letterpress soft: $15. (ISBN: 0-913559-40-7). Limited cloth (150 copies): $50. (ISBN: 0-913559-41-5).
THE DERELICT GENIUS OF MARTIN M, by Frank Fagan. Intensely poetic tragi-comic tale about "a life inextricable from a body of ideas...a metaphor brilliantly expressing the inexpressible..."--Burt Cole, author of OLIMPIA. 88 pages. Letterpress soft: $16. (ISBN: 0-913559-50-4)
FATEFUL CHOICES: TALES ALONG THE ROAD TAKEN, edited by Marshall Brooks & Stephanie Greene. Classic and modern tales/poems on the choices people make on the road of life. Abbey, Bradbury, Chopin, Dante, Farrell, Frost, O'Henry, Sophocles, Twain, Whitman & many more. Illustrated by Brooks. 184 pages. Letterpress soft: $22.50 (ISBN: 0-913559-61-X). Limited cloth: $60.(ISBN: 0-913559-65-2).
FISHING THE BACK COUNTRY, by Fred DeFauw. Sleek, sensitive essays and fiction on back country exploits of a serious flyfisherman and student of the natural world. 136 pages. Letterpress soft: Sold Out. Limited cloth: $50. (ISBN: 0-913559-64-4).
I RODE 'A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE' by Rudy Bond, the actor who played alongside Marlon Brando in the original 1947 Broadway production of Tennesse Williams' classic drama. "Behind the scenes peek at the momentous occasion that was STREETCAR, with Brando, Jessica Tandy, Karl Malden, Kim Hunter--from the gritty point of view of a working actor who never had the luck to make it big..."--Library Journal. 192 pages. Trade soft: $16.95. (ISBN: 0-913559-57-1). Trade cloth: $26.95.(ISBN: 0-913559-58-X).
KAFKA KALEIDOSCOPE, intro & edited by Martin Wasserman. A kaleidoscope of essays, poetry, criticism, drama, and fiction inspired by, and in homage to, writer/mystic Franz Kafka. Wood engravings by Frank C. Eckmair. A "Best Book" selection by Small Press Review. 104 pages. Letterpress soft: $17. (ISBN: 0-913559-52-0).
KILIMANJARO BURNING, by John B. Robinson. A fast-paced novel that relates the adventures of an ex-patriate American trying to con his way through politically explosive Tanzania. "Well-crafted story redolent with the sights, sounds and smells of back-alley Africa...cannot fail to engage you even as it unsettles you..."--Small Press Review.
LETTERS TO MY BROTHER, by Joseph Katz. At times uplifting, at times sad, always remarkable correspondence during a half century with the author's brother, poet Menke Katz. Overflows with ideas on politics, art, literature, music, love, alienation. 176 pages. Trade soft: $16.95. (ISBN: 0-913559-46-6). Trade cloth: $26.95. (ISBN: 0-913559-47-4).
MAGIC & MADNESS IN THE LIBRARY, edited by Eric Graeber. Classic fiction and "finds" on real and imagined libraries through the minds of Cervantes, Voltaire, Borges, Woolf, Bradbury, King, and more. Wood engravings by Frank C. Eckmair. Letterpress soft: $19. (ISBN: 0-913559-36-9). Limited cloth: $60. (ISBN: 0-913559-37-7).
SPIRITS OF THE ADIRONDACKS, by Tom Tolnay, featuring 36 wood engravings by Frank C. Eckmair. Ghost-hunting in New York's 6 million acre 'forever wild' wilderness. "Riveting interpretation of the supernatural, this tome is fascinating..."--Adirondack Life. 120 pages. Letterpress soft: $21. (ISBN: 0-913559-62-8). Limited signed cloth: $50. (ISBN: 0-913559-67-9). Artists edition w/original print from book: $95. Ordering & Shipping info
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Fine Poetry
BASEBALL & THE LYRICAL LIFE. An anthology which brings together serious and workaday poets who extol baseball in verse. "An elegant apologia to justify its mix of poets and non-poets by arguing that baseball conjoins all fans in a common dialog..."--Woodstock Times. Wood engravings by Frank C. Eckmair. 88 pages. Letterpress soft:$15
(ISBN: 0-913559-54-7).
REPERCUSSIONS, by Marcus Rome. Profound and forthright poetic reflections by a NYC psychoanalyst into the darkest secrets of the human heart. "Deeply absorbed in introspection, Rome's language is always accessible..."--American Book Review.136 pages. Engravings. Letterpress soft: $19. (ISBN: 0-913559-55-5).
RISKING THE WIND, by Warren Carrier. An autumnal poetic flight carried off with insight and beauty. "A sure intelligence, a perceptive sensibility, and decent care for language..."--Donald
Justice, Pulitzer Prize Poet. Engravings. 56 pages. Letterpress soft: $13.50. (ISBN: 0-913559-56-3).
UNCERTAIN RELATIONS, by Joel Chace. An exploration of Heisenberg's "physics of poetry" and his "uncertainty principle" via the poetic medium. "A carnival of Science-gone-aesthetic..."--Small Press Review. 56 pages. Engravings. Letterpress soft: $14.50. (ISBN: 0-913559-60-1).
WAITING ON PENTECOST, by Tom Smith. Engaging cycle of unorthodox interpretations of Biblical stories. "Each poem imagines its way out of a Biblical quote and the effect is astonishing..."--Portland Press. 136 pages. Engravings.
Letterpress soft: $17. (ISBN: 0-913559-53-9).
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