Nobody’s Perfect, Letterpress Edition
Greetings and happy holidays a few days in advance of the first time in years that Christmas, Hanukah, and Kwanzaa almost entirely overlap. (Hanukah is based on a lunar month.)
As I finish out the year, I’m grateful for the support and interest in the history that I bring to you and others through my peculiar lens of technology and printing.
The Devil in the Details
Six Centuries of Type & Printing, the book that I wrote and produced for the Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule project, is nearly sold out. Five perfect copies remain.
However, as I’ve been working through the boxes of books, I pulled copies with slight imperfections for later sale. I’ve now posted those with detailed descriptions of the issues—most imperfections are minor, like lighter printing than I consider top quality on some pages, no printing on the opening endpapers, or a slightly crushed slipcase corner.
The imperfect copies are priced substantially lower than regular copies. However, as a reader of my newsletter, the coupon code SIXCENTLIST takes $10 off the price of either a perfect or imperfect copy of the book. Enter the code at checkout to see the discount.
The purchasing of any letterpress copy includes the ebook edition, which is as perfect as bits and bytes allow.
From Were to Are
In other end-of-year news, How Comics Were Made was acquired by Andrews McMeel Publishing for future printings and editions. This is quite exciting, as this will bring the book—with a slightly revised cover and a title of How Comics Are Made—into bricks-and-mortar and online bookstores worldwide! You can read more about that book deal in this Kickstarter update.
The new edition is already available for pre-order at many online stores in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, even though it doesn’t ship until June 3, 2025. It has a retail price of $40 and will be printed in hardcover with a book jacket.
The Kickstarter edition is still available for immediate purchase and shipping, though copies remaining are dwindling.
The Midnight World
Michael Chabon’s foreword to How Comics Were Made leapt from its pages into the New York Review of Books holiday issue (cover date Dec. 19, now on newsstands). You can read it at no cost by registering for a free account at the NYRB.
It is quite surreal to pick up a copy of this storied publication and see my name staring back at me!
A lovely holiday season to everyone,
Glenn