A Relevant Memoir: The Story of the Equinox Cooperative Press - Hardcover

HART, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0930986008 ISBN 13: 9780930986001

Publisher: Three Mountains Press, 1977

Synopsis

First edition. At the very bottom of the Great Depression in the United States, a group of young men and women in and around the book business formed a cooperative corporation dedicated to publishing works of literary significance that commercially-minded publishers were neglecting and to publishing such works in ways that enabled the graphic arts to illuminate as well as enhance an author's meaning. Such idealism usually withers as soon as it blossoms but the Equinox Cooperative Press succeeded, and the present memoir describes the participants in that valiant enterprise, their motives, the principles that guided them, their mode of work, the books they published, and the reasons they disbanded just when they were the most profitable. Presentation from the publisher on free endpaper "To Susan Otis Thompson with best wishes - from the publisher, Denis Carboneau." Also loosely inserted is an T.L.s. from Henry Hart thanking Thompson for the nice quote provided by her. Also present is a carbon of the letter Thompson sent to Carboneau to use in publicity. Spine of jacket age darkened. 111 pages including facsimiles of Ward drawings and a bibliography of the press. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Edition details

• Publisher: Three Mountains Press
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0930986008
• ISBN 13: 9780930986001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 111