Ephemera – the smaller typographic output of a private press – can be a good way to acquire a wide sampling of the press’ work. They serve as amuse-bouches. While the pieces themselves can be wonderful, they are loose-leaf and hard to know what to do with! Therefore, we have crafted clamshell boxes for their storage and display. These can be placed on a shelf among any library of books.

We are offering three collections – broadsides, unbound leaves, and chapbooks. The exact contents of each Ephemera Collection will vary based on availability, but each will include an assortment with a significantly greater retail value when ordered individually than all together.

UNBOUND LEAVES COLLECTION

•⠀Each book edition produces leaves. Overages, sheets with stray marks, one-sided proofs, layouts with typos, sheets overinked or inked with the wrong color. Each is a look “behind the scenes” in one way or another. An unbound leaves collection will consist of between one and two dozen pages from across our editions.

•⠀The 1st STATEwill include leaves from rarer editions (say, Jack and The Masque of the Red Death).

•⠀The 2nd STATEwill primarily include leaves from available editions and may have some minor defects.

•⠀Housed in an optional handmade clamshell box.

BROADSIDES COLLECTION

•⠀A broadsides collection will consist of six or seven editions.

•⠀The 1st STATEwill include broadsides which are no longer publicly available.

•⠀The 2nd STATEwill primarily include materials otherwise available and some items may be Épreuve d’Artiste or have minor defects (such as a stray ink mark).

•⠀Housed in an optional handmade clamshell box.

CHAPBOOKS COLLECTION

•⠀A chapbooks collection will consist of four or five editions.

•⠀The 1st STATEwill include broadsides which are no longer publicly available.

•⠀The 2nd STATEwill primarily include materials otherwise available and some items may be Épreuve d’Artiste or have minor defects (such as a stray ink mark).

•⠀Housed in an optional handmade clamshell box.

In addition to what is detailed above, all collections will include several pieces of stray ephemera – prospectus sheets, checklists, etc.