BookPresses

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA · est. 1984

Red Butte Press

Library fine press built around an 1846 Columbian hand press, commissioning original artwork and printing letterpress limited editions on fine paper with hand binding.

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About the press

Red Butte Press is the fine press of the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah, established in 1984 around an 1846 Columbian hand press donated by Bay Area printers Lewis and Dorothy Allen. It produces finely crafted letterpress limited editions, commissioning original artwork and using quality papers and bindings.

Notable titles

  • Oracle Bones (Terry Tempest Williams, Gaylord Schanilec)
  • To a Young Writer (Wallace Stegner)
  • Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known (Wole Soyinka)
  • Stranger & Stranger

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