Foolscap Press (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Chapbook. Cream colored paper with hand sewn binding. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. Appearing as a letter with address, stamp, and wax seal to rear cover. 12 pages. One of the Presses All Fool's Day keepsakes. VERY FINE. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creasing and square. Without creases, bumps, chips or tears. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Paperback. An April Fools day keepsake. Green, black, and white patterned front wrapper. Pristine. [12 pages] PRI/072408.

Condition: Good. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Folded Card, Exhibition Announcement & Postcard, Very Good+. Prospectus for Despatches & Exhibition Announcement finely printed on light card stock. Post card full color photographic reproduction. In opened envelope addressed to Peter Howard, Serendipity Books.

Condition: Good. One-sided card, measuring 3.5' x 5. Invitation to Foolscap Press & Tangram Publication Party & Exhibition of Books.Very good.

Condition: Good. 4to. One folded sheet. [4] pp., illus. Very good on Lana Pur Fil paper. This is a prospectus for a book, not the book itself.

title-page with title printed in red over monochrome illustration of gesticulating stringed puppets in Elizabethan costume, pp. 12, tall 8vo, publisher's crimson wrappers with printed Elizabethan glove illustration on cover, fine. Professor Moosekowski 'is Lecturer of History and Dramaturgy at the State Faculty of the Theatre of Puppetry in the Dramatic Arts College in Warsaw, Poland. His paper 'Motions and the Man' was given to a spellbound audience at the Interlude Conference of Shakespearean Scholars in Paris, France, April 1, 2003.' (final words of text0.

Condition: Fine. One of 200 copies. This is an unusual and lovely scroll book, which, according to the Press, follows the written record of a wondrous monument standing in Athens. The Tower has been explained by scholars from antiquity to the present, yet the Tower of the Winds was and still is a mystery to those who study it. The work is original to the Foolscap Press both in content and exterior form, and was created as a biblio-artifact, both a book and an object. The book is in a pre-codex form, allowing the reader to scroll through history viewing the subject along a panorama 25 feet in length. In addition to reproducing historic texts, there are illustrations of the Tower by James Stuart and Nicolas Revett, two important early British architects. The work is printed in Adobe Herculanum type on Zerkall Book and hand made papyrus from Egypt. It is housed in a formed sculptural / architectural case. Each case is a rigid cylinder hinged with cloth and lined with a map of ancient Athens. Issued with handling instructions. It is a stunning and inventive work from this press. Scroll is in fine condition. PRI/102022.

Foolscap Press (illustrator). 9.75 x 13.5 inches. quarter leather over cloth boards, custom cloth-covered box with leather spine label. 103, (7) pages. Translated by Geoffrey Stachan. Illustrated by Vladimir Zimakov. Privately printed in an edition of 100 copies, of which this is one of 90 copies available for sale. Fine in fine clamshell box. The book was designed, printed and bound by Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence Van Velzer at Foolscap Press. The book is printed letterpress on Rives paper in Van Dijck type and signed by the author, translator and artist. There are eight full-page two- or three-color illustrations and eight chapter opening vignettes by Vladimir Zimakov. From the artists: Brief Loves that Live Forever is a novel in eight chapters, each of which are distinct episodes in the life of the narrator. The chapters show us moments of supreme lucidity where the narrator is consciously alive to the beauty of the world and the possibility of love in its many aspects. The setting is the Brezhnev era in the Soviet Union where as the narrator states, "love is in essence subversive." The essence of this novel is how to move beyond recrimination of the past or even the promise of the future and to be consciously alive to the beauty around us, and to that possibility of love. Andreï Makine is an elegant stylist who allows us to witness these clear moments throughout this moving and thoughtful novel. Andreï Makine was born in Siberia in 1957 and has lived in France since 1987 when he traveled there as a member of a teachers exchange program. He determined to stay in France and was granted political asylum. Writing in his adopted language, he is the author of over twenty novels and has won Frances top literary prizes, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis. In 2016 Makine was elected to the prestigious Académie française, succeeding Assia Djebar. Geoffrey Strachan has worked closely with Andreï Makine, translating all of the novels published in English. Strachan was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 1998 for his translation of Makines Le testament français. Strachan was shortlisted for the Moncrieff Prize for Makines The Archipelago of Another Life in 2020 and for Tropic of Violence by Nathacha Appanah in 2019. In 2007 he was a runner up for The Woman Who Waited by Makine. Strachan also translates from German and has won the Schlegel-Tieck award in 1973 for Love and Hate by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt. Vladimir Zimakov is an illustrator, book artist and designer. He is an associate professor of art and design and the director of the Wedeman Art Gallery at Lasell University in Massachusetts. Zimakov has worked with leading publishing houses such as Penguin, Random House, Faber and Faber, Oxford University Press, the Folio Society illustrating books and producing cover art. He has also worked with Mad Parrot Press/Deep Wood Press, Centipede Press and publishes under the Wild Pangolin Press imprint. quarter leather over cloth boards, custom cloth-covered box with leather spine label.

First editions of these farcical pamphlets. Octavos. Variously paginated and often illustrated. Publisher's sewn stiff wrappers of various hues. Excellent.Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence G. Van Velzer each worked at Arion Press with Glenn Todd; Peggy in the bindery and Lawrence as printer and typesetter. In 1990 they established Foolscap Press. "Foolscap Press is Lawrence G. Van Velzer and Peggy Gotthold. They started Foolscap Press in 1990 after many years in the business in order to publish books under their own imprint. All of the editions are designed, printed and bound at the Press. Peggy Gotthold worked as a bookbinder at Schuberth Bookbindery in San Francisco for a number of years, as well as at Arion Press. She trained in letterpress printing and typesetting at Cowell Press (UCSC), Yolla Bolly Press and Artichoke Press. Larry operated his own press and worked as a printer and typesetter at Arion Press. His father taught printing in technical high schools and was a letterpress printer who learned printing from his father, who published a newspaper printed on a handpress in the 1870's. Foolscap Press is located in the small coastal community of Santa Cruz, along the central coast of California, not far over the hills from San Francisco. The printing facility, bindery and their home surround a kitchen garden in the summer and bird sanctuary in the winter. The pressroom is set up with two platen presses, two proof presses and an assortment of other letterpress equipment. Books are printed from either lead type or from work generated from the computer and made into photopolymer plates, then mounted for letterpress printing. They publish their own original first editions or texts, and produce work for other publishers and fine presses as well. Peggy and Larry work as a creative team, collaborating on all aspects of book production, from conception through marketing." (Nawakum). Titles are; The Spring Haiku of Tobu Sho, 1999. A Letter to Isabelle Rimbaud, 2000. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Golf Caddie, 2001. Shakespeare: Motions & the Man: Essays by Henryk Moosekowski, 2003. Gaillard Durfort: An Ordinary Frenchman's Ride Up & Down History related by Laurent Durfort, 2004. Tayler's Ho, a Snaile! A Crye for Haelp, 2005. My Private Library: Confessions of a Collector by Basil Roan Quagga, 2006. On the Labeling of Paintings: A Guide for the Art School Impaired, 2007. [B. Traven: An Interview with Himself], 2008. A Foundational Literature Experience for a Young Person, 2010. Calliope vs. Thamyris, et al., 2011. The Diaries of a Damp Stone, 2012. Hoarder's Manual No. 77, 2013. New Foolszit Roman: Finally, a typeface for the rest of us, 2014. Harry Paget Flashman: Dawn of a Dastardly Hero, 2015. A Truer History of Doctor Dolittle, 2016. Murder by the Book, 2018.