small press:
Miscellaneous Small Press

Various and sundry. Check my blog, Bookaholic, for commentary on books and/or the world.

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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:

• Peter Pauper Press
• Little Blue Books
• Armed Services Editions
• vintage early publications from big publishers
• Black Sparrow Press
• Capra Press
• Riverside Press
• Pocket Books
• Elbert Hubbard/Roycrofters
• Radio books
• Bandanna Books
• Mudborn Press
• My radio productions, such as these: Nineteenth Century
• plus everybody else.

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.

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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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• Aesop's Fables. Retold by Steven Zorn (Running Press)
• Donald Allen. The New American Poetry.
• Day of the Dead in Mexico Through the Eyes of the Soul/Yucatán/Día de Muertos en México. Mary J. Andrade
• Matthew Arnold. Discourses in America. (1894)

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• One Hundred Best Poems for Boys and Girls. Marjorie Barrows, ed.
• James Beattie and Oliver Goldsmith. The Poetical Works of James Beattie and the Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith.
• Stephen Vincent Benet. John Brown's Body. 1941 edition.
• Stephen Vincent Benet. John Brown's Body. 1928 edition.
• Stephen Vincent Benet. Western Star. 1941 edition.
• (small press before there were presses) Paul Blackburn, tr. Proensa. An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry. Arnaut Daniel, Bernard de Ventadour, Peire Vidal, Marcabru, Bertran de Born, Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine, and more.
• The Bookman Anthology of Verse (1922). John Farrar, ed.
• (reprint of a special hand-made book) One Special Summer. Jaqueline and Lee Bouvier
• Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate. October and Other Poems. With Occasional Verses on the War.
• The Children's Book of Celebrated Legends. Lorinda Munson Bryant
• The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk. One of the Bedtime Story Books. Thornton W. Burgess
• William Burroughs. The Naked Lunch.
• (please don't buy this book) George Gordon, Lord Byron. The Poetical Works of Lord Byron. Complete in One Volume, collected and arranged with illustrative notes by Thomas Moore, Lord Jeffrey, Sir Walter Scott, Bishop Heber, Samuel Rogers, Professor Wilson, J.G. Lockhart, George Ellis, Thomas Campbell, Rev. H.H. Milman, etc., etc., etc.

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• The Thanksgiving Visitor. Truman Capote SOLD+
• The Oxford Book of American Verse. Bliss Carman, Ed. SOLD
• G.K. Chesterton. Five Types. A Book of Essays.
• Kate Chopin. The Awakening and Selected Stories. Reprint.
• Winston S. Churchill. Painting as a Pastime.
• Irvin Cobb. Irvin Cobb at His Best.
• Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio.
• Dwight Cooke. Just Passing Through.
• (who knew?) Robert Crumb. R. Crumb's Head Comix. "Introduce Yourselves" by Paul Krassner.

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• Dante Alighieri. The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri.
• (Sure. one of the best poets) The Psalms of David in Metre. (1855) Translated and diligently compared with the Original Text and Former Translations, more plain, smooth, and agreeable to the text than any heretofore
• Fielding Dawson. Backtalk. 200 printed.
• (one of my personal heroes of smallpressdom) Daniel Defoe
• Christmas Chimes. Selections from Charles Dickens and others. Charles Dickens
• Charles Dickens. Christmas Stories and Master Humphrey's Clock.
• (the gentlemanly art of smallpressery) Austin Dobson, ed. Eighteenth Century Essays.
• Camille, or The Fate of a Coquette. Alexander Dumas
• Lawrence Durrell. Justine.
• Lawrence Durrell. Justine. A Novel.

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• The Norton Anthology of Poetry, first ed. Arthur M. Eastman, et al. SOLD+
• Umberto Eco. Foucault's Pendulum.
• English Essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay. Charles W. Eliot, Harvard Classics
• Literary Ethics. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Desiderius Erasmus. On Copia of Words and Ideas.

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FFF

• Phil Farrand. The Nitpicker's Guide for X-philes. Covers all episodes for the first four seasons.
• Beatrice Farwell. The Charged Image: French Lithographic Caricature, 1816-1848. Engravings, 8 color plates.
• Howard Fast. Literature and Reality.
• ( a small press of one) The Unabomber Manifesto. FC
• Jules Feiffer. Tantrum.
• (some individual voices here) Anne Francis. Voices from Home. An Inner Journey. Signed with a gift inscription by Anne Francis.
• Jon Francis. Fragile Interludes. Signed by the author.
• Frederick Franck. African Sketchbook. Text and Drawings by Frederick Franck. Preface by Graham Greene.

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• (an inveterate lifelong journalist) Mohandas K. Gandhi. The Voice of Truth. Volume 6 of the Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. no ISBN
• The Classic Myths: in English Literature and in Art. Charles Mills Gayley
• (when modern poetry was coming alive) Georgian Poetry 1911-1912.
• Georgian Poetry 1918-1919.
• Richard Glover. The Poetical Works of Richard Glover.
• (a one-man industry) Tim Graham. The Royal Year 1989.
• Tim Graham. The Royal Year 1991.
• Robert Graves. I, Claudius.
• Simpsons Comic Barn Burner. Matt Groening
• Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler. Letters of the Century. America 1900-1999.

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• Steel Magnolias. Robert Harling SOLD+
• (Coach House Press does great work) A.S.A. Harrison. Orgasms. Twenty-two women talk frankly. Coach House Press.
• (a small press idea that went big) Harvard Classics. Charles W. Eliot, ed. SOLD+
• (Who?) The Poetical Works of Frances Ridley Havergal. Frances Ridley Havergal
• (a hoot) Shakespeare Jestbooks: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jestbooks Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare. W. Carew Hazlitt
• Kokoro. Lafcadio Hearn
• Olwen Hedley. The Queen's Silver Jubilee. (Elizabeth II)
• Katharine Hepburn. The Making of THE AFRICAN QUEEN. or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind
• Siddhartha, 6th clothbound printing. Hermann Hesse SOLD+
• Gilbert Highet. The Classical Tradition. Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature.
• Hanta Yo. Ruth Beebe Hill
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Lothrop Motley, Two Memoirs. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• More Poems. A.E. Housman
• Born to Sing. Complete Voice Training. Elisabeth Howard and Howard Austin.
• Thomas Hughes. Tom Brown's School Days. By an Old Boy.

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• Stickman. John Trudell. Paola Igliori SOLD+
• Washington Irving (as Diedrich Knickerbocker). A History of New-York. from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty…

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JJJ

• Mrs. Anna Jameson. Characteristics of Women. Moral, Poetical, and Historical.
• Jonas Paulius II (Pope John Paul II). Lietuvoje (Lithuania 1993 trip)
• WWII. James Jones SOLD+

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KKK

• Walt Kelly. I Go Pogo.
• Walt Kelly. The Incompleat Pogo
• Of the Imitation of Christ. Thomas à Kempis
• On the Road. Jack Kerouac SOLD+
• Letters of Marque. Rudyard Kipling SOLD+
• Rudyard Kipling. Mine Own People.
• Milton Klonsky. Blake's Dante. The Complete Illustrations to the Divine Comedy.
• The Illustrated Story of O. Doris Kloster
• The Jewish Book of Why. Alfred J. Kolatch SOLD+
• Richard Kostelanetz. A Critical (Ninth) Assembling. (Precisely: 6789).
• Louise Kursmark. How to Start a Home-based Desktop Publishing Business. (such as a small press)
  
  

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  • Howard Lachtman, ed. Sporting Blood. Selections from Jack London's Greatest Sports Writing
  • Michael Lally. ¿Que Pasa Baby?
  • Andrew Lang. Aucassin and Nicolete. Done into English by Andrew Lang.
  • Charles Sterrett Latham. Dante's Eleven Letters. A Translation of Dante's Eleven Letters With Explanatory Notes And Historical Comments.
  • D.H. Lawrence. Pansies. (i.e., Pensees)
  • (available from Bandanna Books) Luis Leal. Mitos y Leyendas de México/Myths and Legends of Mexico. Paperbound.
  • Luis Leal. Mitos y Leyendas de México/Myths and Legends of Mexico. Perfectbound signed.
  • Luis Leal. Mitos y Leyendas de México/Myths and Legends of Mexico. Hardcover signed.
  • Learn to Speak French. for Macintosh.
  • (Yeah!) John Lennon. In His Own Write.
  • William Ellery Leonard. Beowulf.
  • Sir Roger L'Estrange. Seneca's Morals, by Way of Abstract, to Which Is Added, a Discourse, Under the Title of an After-Thought.
  • (Reluctant even to list this one) The Liberal.
  • The Library Magazine. of Select Foreign Literature, Volume 3.
  • Abraham Lincoln. Speeches and Addresses.
  • Treasury of Polish Love Poems, Quotations & Proverbs. Miroslaw Lipinski SOLD+
  • Joseph Liss. Radio's Best Plays Preface by Norman Corwin.
  • E.V. Lucas. The Open Road. A Little Book for Wayfarers.
  • Eli Luria. Travel Sketches, Arabian Nights Travel Adventure. Color cartoon sketches.
  • The Lyric Year. 100 Poems. Edited by Ferdinand Earle.
  
  

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  • Beacon Book of Quotations by Women. Rosalie Maggio SOLD+
  • Robert Mankoff, ed. The New Yorker Book of Technology Cartoons.
  • (The book was small, but what a publishing success story. A first edition) Mao Tse-Tung. Quotations from Chairman Mao. (the Little Red Book).
  • His Exits and His Entrances. The Story of Shakespeare's Reputation Louis Marder
  • Four Latin American novels, boxed set. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Argueta, de Queiroz,
  • Steve Martin. Shopgirl: A Novella. Paperback.
  • Steve Martin. Shopgirl: A Novella. Hardcover.
  • Poems of John Masefield. John Masefield
  • Margaret Matches. Savage Paradise.
  • Bill Mauldin. The Brass Ring. A Sort of a Memoir.
  • Bill Mauldin. Up Front.
  • Doug Mitchel. Harley-Davidson Rolling Sculpture. A Pictorial Celebration of the First 95 Years.
  • William Morris. The Tale of King Coustans the Emperor. Done out of the Ancient French into English.
  • The Mothers Magazine. 1843. Edited by Mrs. A.G. Whittelsey and Rev. D. Mead.
  
  

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  • Pablo Neruda. Alturas de Macchu Picchu/The Heights of Macchu Picchu. Translated by Nathaniel Tarn
  • The New Yorker 1950-1955 Album.
  • Writing Incredibly Short Plays, Poems, Stories. James H. Norton and Francis Gretton.
  • James G. Nourse. The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube. with a Rubik's Cube.
  
  

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  • Ovid. Heroides and Amores.
  
  

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  • Sheila Paine. The Afghan Amulet. Travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad.
  • Dorothy Parker. Laments for the Living. SOLD
  • Peppo's Pidgin to da Max. Douglas Simonson (Peppo).
  • S.J. Perelman. The Road to Miltown, or Under the Spreading Atrophy.
  • The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath SOLD+
  • The Popular Educator. No. 26. 764 Digests of the World's Great Books in 53 Weekly Issues. George M. Murrary, ed. SOLD
  • Elvis Presley Album.
  • Elvis and Me. Priscilla Beaulieu Presley with Sandra Harmon
  • Prize Poems 1913-1929. Charles A. Wagner, ed. With illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Introduction by Mark Van Doren.
  
  
  
  

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  • The Works of Rabelais. Rabelais.
  • I.A. Richards. Science and Poetry.
  • JoAnn Roberts. Art & Illusion. A Guide to Crossdressing. SOLD
  • The Phrase Finder. Rodale Press SOLD+
  • The Best Cartoons from Punch. Marvin Rosenberg, William Cole, eds.
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Poems and Translations 1850-1870. Together with the prose story "Hand and Soul"
  • The Victrola Book of the Opera Samuel Holland Rous
  • Q. Curtii Rufi. Alexandri Magni (Alexander the Great) Regis Macedonum.
  
  

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  • Jorge de Sena / Edith Sitwell Correspondence. George Monteiro, ed.
  • Ernest Thompson Seton. Wild Animals I Have Known. Illustrated by the Author.
  • Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant. Vol. I. Containing the Three Unpleasant Plays. (George) Bernard Shaw
  • Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant. Vol. II. Containing the Four Pleasant Plays. (George) Bernard Shaw
  • Misalliance, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and Fanny's First Play. (George) Bernard Shaw
  • Three Plays for Puritans. George Bernard Shaw
  • The Odyssey of Homer. T.E. Shaw, tr.
  • Henryk Sienkiewicz. Quo Vadis.
  • Shel Silverstein. Different Dances.
  • Shel Silverstein. A Light in the Attic.
  • Shel Silverstein. Where the Sidewalk Ends.
  • Upton Sinclair. The Jungle.
  • Philip Orkney Skene. Die Geschichte des Kleinen Jack/The History of the Little Jack. adapted for teaching and learning the German language by means of a verbal translation on the principles of the Hamiltonian System, and an elementary grammar.
  • Anthony Slide, ed. The Best of Rob Wagner's Script. Hollywood of the 1930s and 40s.
  • Jo Durden Smith. 100 Most Infamous Criminals.
  • Rick Smolan and David Cohen. A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union. With A Day in the Life of the United States. Lavish late 1980s photo-essays.
  • The First Circle. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. Fine in good dj.
  • The First Circle. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn. Good with good dj.
  • The Gulag Archipelago. An Experiment in Literary Investigation. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  • A.C. Spectorsky. The College Years.
  • Poems by Stephen Spender. Stephen Spender
  • Margaret Starbird. The Woman with the Alabaster Jar. Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail.
  • Gertrude Stein. How to Write.
  • Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo. Feel This Book. An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction. Signed by both authors.
  
  

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  • Patricia Telesco. A Victorian Grimoire. Enchantment. Romance. Magic.
  • James Thurber. The Thurber Carnival.
  • James Thurber. Thurber Country. The Classic Collection About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species.
  • Count Lev. N. Tolstoy, My Confession; Dogmatic Theology; My Religion; On Life. Translated by Leo Weiner.
  • The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century. Harry Turtledove and Martin H. Greenberg, eds.
  • Life on the Mississippi. Mark Twain. Hardcover 1923, with Twain trademark symbol.
  • Varro E. Tyler. Hoosier Home Remedies. SOLD
  
  

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  • United States Magazine and Democratic Review. 1842.
  • A Treasury of Great Poems English and American. Louis Untermeyer, ed.
  
  

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  • Gore Vidal. Burr.
  • Gore Vidal. Imperial America.
  • Gore Vidal. Lincoln.
  • Norah Vincent. Self-Made Man. One Woman's Journey into Manhood, and Back Again.
  
  

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  • Jane Wagner. The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. The Broadway Smash Starring Lily Tomlin.
  • Steve Wall and Harvey Arden. Wisdomkeepers. Meetings With Native American Spiritual Elders. White Deer of Autumn, editor.
  • Lew Wallace. Ben Hur. A Tale of the Christ. Wallace Memorial Edition.
  • Rebecca West. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. The Record of a Journey Through Yugoslavia in 1937 (two-volume set).
  • The Goliard Poets. Medieval Latin Songs and Satires. Translated by George F. Whicher.
  • Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. Edited by Bernard Smith.
  • Poems of John G. Whittier. John Greenleaf Whittier. Exquisite.
  • Frederick G. Williams and Sergio Pachá. Carlos Drummond de Andrade and His Generation. SOLD
  • Tennessee Williams. 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other One-Act Plays.
  • Wendell L. Willkie. One World.
  • P.G. Wodehouse. Barmy in Wonderland.
  • Cornell Woolrich. Nightwebs. Edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
  • The Great Detective Stories, a Chronological Anthology Willard Huntington Wright (aka S.S. Van Dine)
  
  

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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.

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VIDEOS ABOUT BOOKS
Joy of Life
Luria Travel Sketches
Jewel in the Crown
Hungarian Art
New Yorker 50's cartoons
Who Is Bookaholic?
Bollinger Bands
French Lithography
Designing with Flowers
Jerry Hall's Tall Tales
Blake drawings/Dante

THIS MONTH: WWII COVERS

Days of Wrath, Malraux
Murder and the First Lady
Murder in the Map Room
Murder in the Rose Garden
Murder in the West Wing
Civilization on Trial, Toynbee
Making of The Jewel in the Crown
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
We Were There at the Battle for Bataan
Mila 18, Uris
The Last 100 Days. WWII in Europe, Toland
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WWII
Russia at War 1941-45, Karpov
The Battle for Rome, Katz
Up Front, Bill Mauldin
Pocket Book of the War
American Servicemen in Britain
Powstanie Warszawskie 1944
WWII, James Jones
Navies of WWII
Psychology for Fighting Man
Story Pocket Book
The American Legion
Life Magazine. 4 issues 1944-1945
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, Skinner
Green Dolphin Street
14 Radio Plays, Arch Oboler
Ivory Tower and Other, Arch Oboler
Free World Theatre, Oboler/Longstreet
Radio's Best Plays, Joseph Liss/Norman Corwin
Just Passing Through, Dwight Cooke
Best of Rob Wagner's Script, Rob Wagner
How to Write for Radio
Crusade in Europe, Eisenhower
Return to Paradise, Michener
Murrow interviews Oppenheimer

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

February 22,