BookPresses

Minneapolis, USA · est. 1985

Minnesota Center for Book Arts

One of the largest comprehensive book-arts centers in the United States, with letterpress, papermaking and bookbinding studios, galleries and a retail shop of hand-printed work.

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About the press

Minnesota Center for Book Arts is a nonprofit book-arts organization founded in Minneapolis in 1985. It operates letterpress and bookbinding studios, two galleries and a retail shop, and runs classes, residencies, exhibitions and the biennial MCBA Prize.

Notable titles

  • Come and Get It (Kevin Kling)
  • Winter Reader (Louise Erdrich)
  • Lessons for Our Time

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Big Jump Press

Tuscaloosa, USA est. 2005

Letterpress-printed, hand-bound limited-edition artists' books, prints and broadsides exploring themes of transformation, translation and shifting perspective.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Artists' books
  • +2

Center for Book Arts

New York, USA est. 1974

The first U.S. nonprofit dedicated to the book as an art object, supporting the field through education, studio access, exhibitions and preservation, and publishing letterpress chapbooks, broadsides and limited-edition artists' books.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Artists' books
  • +2

Purgatory Pie Press

New York City (Brooklyn Army Terminal), New York, USA est. 1977

Letterpress limited editions and artists' books hand-set from wood and metal type, plus postcards, coasters, and hand-printed ephemera; Dikko Faust hand-sets type while Esther K. Smith edits, designs, and hand-sews the books.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +3