small press:
Capra Press

When I started working for Mackintosh & Young in the 1970s, Noel Young was nearing the point of quitting as a printer to spend his energies as publisher of Capra Press. Originally he called it Capricorn Press, but another press with that name protested. Nevertheless, he kept the horns of a goat prominently displayed over the Heidelberg moving-bed letterpress, so smooth it was claimed you could place a dime on its edge on the running press and it wouldn't tip over. Capra chapbooks were in full swing, with handmade racks for display created by his son Aaron Young, who was the binder in the shop. For collating jobs, I remember a large yellow rotating tabletop, with about five of us seated around as the stacks of pages to collate came by, and we used a special tacky wax on our fingertips to pick up single sheets at a time. Noel was getting good authors for his chapbook series: Ray Bradbury, Henry Miller (whom he had worked for briefly), Raymond Carver, Lawrence Clark Powell, Lawrence Durrell, if memory serves.



The general list of small press titles is below. If you follow the publishers, such as older "small" presses, as I do, you'll find more specific information here:

Collectibles amid forgettables … or maybe you just like poetry. For other browsing, try these malls:
Histories & Mysteries, Savvy, College Editions, eCrater.com, Bonanzle, orBiblio.com.

Titles listed alphabetically by author last name. Scroll down. Links updated 7 July, 2010. If a link doesn't work, either I haven't placed it yet, or it's already sold. Drop me a note.




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WW II THIS WEEK

LEAD UP TO WAR
Days of Wrath. Malraux
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the Map Room.
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the Rose Garden.
E. Roosevelt. Murder and the First Lady.
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the West Wing.
Civilization on Trial. Toynbee

PACIFIC THEATER
The Making of The Jewel in the Crown.

EUROPEAN THEATER
Leon Uris. Mila 18.
The Last 100 Days. War in Europe.
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WW II.
Russia at War 1941-45.
The Battle for Rome.
Bill Mauldin. Up Front.
Pocket Book of the War.
American Servicemen in Britain 1942.
Powstanie Warszawskie 1944. Warsaw Uprising
Psychology for the Fighting Man.

BACKGROUND
The Story Pocket Book.
The American Legion. 1919-1989.
4 Life Magazines 1944-1945

RADIO
Arch Oboler. 14 Radio Plays.
Arch Oboler. Ivory Tower and Other
Free World Theatre. 19 New Radio Plays. Oboler/Longstreet.
Radio's Best Plays
Cooke. Just Passing Through.
How to Write for Radio.

AFTERMATH
Michener. Return to Paradise.

ARMED SERVICE EDITIONS
Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday.
Isak Dinesen. 7 Gothic Tales.
Selected Poems of John Keats.
Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt.
John Philip Sousa III. My Family Right or Wrong.
Zweig. The Royal Game.

February 22,