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Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!

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Sycamore Press (illustrator). broadside (17 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches). Keepsake printed with a "Lion-sized" handpress on occasion of the Fall 1990 meeting of The Virginia Amateur Press Association. With a large lion in brown ink.

Hardcover, dust jacket. Sycamore Press (illustrator). 6 x 9 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. Set up in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. Operating from a garage, the press published established authors, such as W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin and Peter Porter, as well as promoting young poets, including James Fenton and Alan Hollinghurst. The Sycamore Press ceased operations in 1992, but it remains an excellent example of the unique qualities associated with the small press movement in England. In addition to a full descriptive bibliography, the book includes an evocative foreword by John Fuller, who wryly describes the trials and tribulations of 'garage' publishing. In a transcribed interview with the author, John Fuller explains why a pamphlet of poems took almost a year to produce as he experimented with letterpress technology. Personal reflections by Sycamore Press authors, such as Andrew Motion and Thom Gunn, illuminate the publishing process further and show what a powerful role John Fuller played in the lives of young poets lucky enough to be published by him. While this book is full of entertaining anecdotes about the hazards of small book publishing, it also provides invaluable advice for small press printers. Ryan Roberts is a Professor and Librarian at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, Illinois. He also maintains the official websites for Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Hermione Lee, and James Fenton. He is co-editor of a volume of interviews with Julian Barnes and editor of a volume of interviews with Ian McEwan for the University Press of Mississippi's Literary Conversations Series. Available outside North and South America from The Bodleian Library.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Landscape small folio with two vertical folds making a triptych, approx. 210 x 107 mm. 30 vols, each pp. [6]. Nos. 1-12, 13-24 in the original printed envelopes. Ryan Roberts, John Fuller and the Sycamore Press, 2010, B1-32. The Sycamore Press was the private press of the writer and academic John Fuller and his partner Prue Fuller and was active between 1968 and 1992. As well as publishing work by established authors such as W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin (his 'Femmes Damnées' is printed here for the first time), it also promoted many younger poets, including James Fenton and Craig Raine, who went on to achieve great success. The poets printed here are, in order of publication, Roy Fuller, David Lehman, Harold Massingham, Peter Porter, Glyn Hughes, Thom Gunn, Alan Brownjohn, James Fenton, David Harsent, Gregory Rose, Bernard Bergonzi, Peter Levi, Michael Schmidt, Gavin Ewart, Peter Redgrove, Peter Scupham, John Mole, Nancy K. Sandars, John Cotton, Roger Mitchell, Douglas Dunn, Alan Hollinghurst, W.H. Auden, Andrew Motion, Michael Vince, Edward Larrissy, Philip Larkin, Craig Raine, Richard Freeman and Ted Burford. Although most of the Broadsheets were printed in quite large numbers, typically between 350 and 400 copies, the two sets in printed envelopes, put together in 1970 and 1977, were published in only a handful of copies, perhaps no more than 30 of Broadsheets 1-12, and 48 of Broadsheets 13-24. In the late 1980s six complete sets were assembled in boxes made by the Oxford binders Maltby's. See Ryan, pp. 118-19.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Bin A. 27 broadsides in 2 envelopes, plus three loose issues.