Book design services for the design of trade books; book design, cover design, and dust jacket design, for publishers, museums, and university presses.

Offering a sensitive application to digital typography, from a background in metal typography.

 

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Cover design for trade books in four color.

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Book designs and page designs of beautiful books, many of them hand made books printed and bound by hand.

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Book binding for new books or book restorations and facsimiles of old books bound in leather and decorated papers for the collector, library, or institution, are all archival.

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Book design began with the geometry of the scribes layout of early maunscripts.

A brief history of book design

A selection of interesting web sites related to books.

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For 25 years Jeffrey Haste has worked in the book arts, and has been a visual artist all of his life.

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Deerbrook Editions has published trade books of poetry and a childrens book.

Deerbrook Editions is now distributed by Small Press Distribution www.spdbooks.org

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."Ê-Mahatma Gandhi

author album and reviews    deerbrookeditions.blogspot

Click the angel to visit Deerbrook Editions publication page. Deerbrook Editions publishes trade volumes of deserving writers. Google Deerbrook Editions to learn more.

NEW! September, 2008 American Life in Poetry: Column 181 BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006

"Stuart Kestenbaum, the author of this week's poem, lost his brother Howard in the destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. We thought it appropriate to commemorate the events of September 11, 2001, by sharing this poem. The poet is the director of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine."   http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/columns/181.html

 

   

screen poem               poetic image

An interesting article on poetry distribution       http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/feature.onpoetry.html?id=179636

Celebrate poetry, discover poetry in your neck of the woods. April is poetry month, see our books at Poets House Showcase.

poetshouseNY       maineliterature

Book of the month.

Joan I. Siegel is recipient of the 1999 New Letters Poetry Prize and the 1998 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award. Professor Emeritus of English at SUNY/Orange.

Author Candice Stover at the   Maine Literary Festival

The Last Island, poems by Mimi White who won the Philbrick Poetry Award in 2000.

Poetry by Mimi White. Cover photo by Sharon Beals.

For a review of this book--- Christian Science Monitor review

 

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    Even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart.

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