gaspereau press
in february 1997, gaspereau press was established in wolfville, nova scotia, as a registered partnership by andrew steeves and gary dunfield. that year, gaspereau press launched the first issue of its literary quarterly ,
steeves says the way things are done at gaspereau press “is ultimately the only and the best way to properly make a book. ” the hands - on production at gaspereau press ensures books are strong and that “they’ll have a long life instead of falling apart in the third reading. ”
steeves credits attention and care as the reasons why gaspereau press does well with design. he says design isn’t the economical problem it is often said to be .
in addition to printing books, gaspereau press is a publisher. this gives steeves complete control over what books it publishes. atlantic authors sue goyette, johanna skibrud and elaine mccluskey are but a few names found on gaspereau’s handprinted book covers .
, and published three trade titles. by 2000, the company’s publishing activities had expanded to eight titles annually. gaspereau press relocated to kentville, nova scotia, where a printing press and bindery equipment were installed, allowing the company to undertake the production of its own books and to maintain better control of both the cost and the quality of book production. that year the press received its first grant from the canada council for the arts, joined the literary press group of canada and expanded from four to six full - time employees. in 2001, gaspereau press discontinued publication of
gaspereau press authors shalan joudry and sylvia hamilton will also be on hand for the literary salon in the morning and in the evening will read from their recent books .
kentville - based gaspereau press swept the alcuin society’s canadian book - design awards again this year. andrew steeves shares his thoughts on design and the art of the book
this year kentville - based gaspereau press swept the alcuin society ’s canadian book - design awards again. after receiving five awards last year, andrew steeves, co - founder of the press, walked away with three prizes and two honorable mentions this year .
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gaspereau press co - founder gary dunfield running the smyth sewing machine, sewing signatures for my new book of essays, smoke proofs, which will be released later this week .
gaspereau press is taking a crack at ramping up its social media presence by reviving its long - dormant facebook page. i’ll still be making posts to this blog from time to time when the subject matter calls for a longer format, but to keep up with things here in the printshop and with our author events, follow the gaspereau press facebook group .
gaspereau press plays an important role in the culture, both by publishing contemporary literature by both emerging and established canadian authors and as one of the few canadian publishers that continue to print and bind its own books in - house. like coach house books and the porcupine’s quill in ontario, gaspereau press offers an alternative publishing model to that of the contemporary trade, one which reunites printing and publishing together under one roof .
here are some more wayzgoose photos, these ones taken by thaddeus holownia of anchorage press, jolicure, nb .
gaspereau gloriatur: book of the blessed tenth year, vol. 1: poetry michael debeyer, kate kennedy
gaspereau gloriatur: book of the blessed tenth year, vol. 2: prose michael debeyer, kate kennedy
gaspereau press had another incredibly successful year at canada’s national competition for excellence in book design, the alcuin awards. this was the 32nd year that the competition was held, and this year’s awards were adjudicated by susan colberg, seth (the single - named cartoonist), and jessica sullivan. they awarded 37 prizes in eight categories. books i designed for gaspereau press took first prize in two of those categories, and i won five prizes in total .
gaspereau press is a canadian literary publisher and printshop established in 1997 by gary dunfield and andrew steeves. gaspereau press publishes some of canada’s most original and innovative authors and is dedicated to editing, designing and manufacturing their books in a fashion that honours their content as well as the great humanist tradition of printing and publishing. employing a wide range of modern and antiquated production techniques and technologies, gaspereau press creates books that marry function and form. from limited - edition letterpress projects to smyth - sewn trade paperbacks with handprinted jackets, every project carries some trace of the human mind, eye and hand. the result is a unique publishing list of award - winning books – affordable, beautiful, and designed to endure .
gaspereau press has been creating books since gary dunfield and andrew steeves founded it in 1997. their printing method differs from most other publishers. using hands - on techniques such as letterpress, heidelberg presses from the 1970s and ’80s, and smyth - sewn paperbacks to name a few. gaspereau runs a small, intimate shop, which results in beautiful, quality books .
. by the start of 2004, gaspereau press had nine full - time employees and was publishing a dozen titles annually. that summer the company moved its shop and offices a few paces up the street 47 church avenue, where it is located today. in 2009, faced with financial pressures, gaspereau press decreased it overheads, reduced its full - time staff and returned the size of its list to between eight and ten books annually, realizing that discovering the proper scale of operation would be critical to its ongoing success .
the ultra - limited availability of the sentimentalists, published more than a year ago in a luxe edition of a few hundred copies by nova scotia' s gaspereau press, became the talk of the town as soon as the novel made the 2010 giller prize short list .
it’s fall, and that means that it’s time to start preparing for the 2014 gaspereau press wayzgoose and open house. the all day event will take place on saturday 25 october. posters will soon be circulating, but here’s the line - up as it presently stands .
it was a very congenial meeting ,
skibsrud said, emphasizing her respect for gaspereau
and the decisions they make .
no one values the care and attention that gaspereau lavishes on its books more than its authors, and the press’s success is rooted in its ability to attract award - winning writers, such as tim bowling, robert bringhurst, george elliott clarke, don mckay, carmine starnino, john terpstra, thomas wharton & jan zwicky. spanning from fiction and poetry to belles lettres, memoir and natural history, the list reflects canada’s rich diversity of ideas and styles. lofty ideals in no way detract from gaspereau’s practicality, any more than the beauty of its books take away from their functionality. a publisher must live by its wits as well as its whims. gaspereau press has thrice been voted the ‘cba best small press publisher’ in canada by the canadian booksellers’ association, most recently in 2010, an indication of its skill in bringing well - made, well - worth - reading books to market, proof that it’s still possible to produce books of quality and distinction on a human scale .
gaspereau' s dunfield said the press has already filled orders from independent bookstores and is working on a shipment to indigo .
we' re going to make books as quick as we can and ship them as quick as we can ,
he promised, adding that any new arrangements will have to wait for the time being .
was also selected by the alcuin jury. i’ll have to add a post for this one later as i have not yet made photographs of that book and i don’t have a copy of it in hand (i’m posting this while i am away from the office and don’t tend to travel with the complete gaspereau press catalogue in my suitcase) .
andrew steeves is a writer, editor, typographer, letterpress printer and literary publisher, & one of the co - founders (with gary dunfield) of gaspereau press. he has won over 50 citations for excellence in canadian book design from the alcuin society. his essay collection smoke proofs: essays on literary publishing, printing and typography appeared in 2014 .
at the same time, she expressed hope her new agent might succeed where other toronto publishers who proposed to take on the book, including house of anansi press and random house - had failed .
founded in 1997 by gary dunfield & andrew steeves, gaspereau press is one of canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers. the award - winning press is known for the originality of its authors, the beauty of it’s books and the quality of its productions. it’s books—smyth - sewn trade paperbacks, cloth - bound hardcovers and letterpress - printed limited edition—are produced in gaspereau’s own printing works, located in the sleepy shiretown of kentville, nova scotia. the press employs an unusual mixture of techniques & technologies in its book production, ranging from traditional letterpress printing using metal type and photopolymer plates to modern offset lithographic printing using customized digital type. trade paperbacks are smyth - sewn for strength and flexibility and often sport handprinted jackets on handmade paper; hardcovers are case - bound by hand. from editing, typesetting and production to sales and promotion, this hands - on approach carries through every aspect of a book’s creation, resulting in a process which is as culturally enriching as the books it fosters .
skibsrud bit her lip when gaspereau co - publishers andrew steeves and gary dunfield spurned offers from toronto - based publishers to reprint and distribute the sentimentalists widely after the giller jury made it a finalist .
after inking the international deal, bohan turned her attention to canada, flying to toronto to attend the giller ceremony and, after her client won, representing her interests with gaspereau the morning after .
the late george reid, printer emeritus at gaspereau press until his death in 2012, operated all kinds of presses through his career with the local newspaper publisher, but his first press and first week running it were memorable. back then, the newspaper office and printing plant were located in the building next door to the present day gaspereau press, occupying the building that now houses the king arms pub and much of the parking lot behind it. when george reported for work, he was given a stack of blank paper, sent to an old clamshell - style letterpress in the basement and told to practice feeding paper. they made him do this for a week. the next monday, they finally gave him his first actual printing job.' my god, you want to believe i didn' t screw up that first real job,' he used to say.' there was no way i was going back to feeding blank paper again.' i was thinking about george today as my son joseph was in the shop today taking his first crack at printing on one of our c & p clamshell presses. i didn' t make him feed blank paper, though i should have, in george' s memory. joseph set up and printed a line of metal type. we ran the press really slow and i read him the riot act on safety (keep a straight back, no reaching into the press after a crooked sheet; paper is cheap but fingers are priceless). he did great .
gaspereau’s publishing program stresses the importance of quality across the entire process, from editorial and design to the manufacturing stage. at the core of its philosophy is a commitment to making books that reinstate the importance of the book as a physical object, reuniting publishing and the book arts. many of gaspereau’s book jackets are letterpress - printed, feature original artwork by artists like wesley bates, and are printed on fine paper—in some cases even handmade. most of its books are smyth - sewn, bound into paper covers and enfolded in letterpress - printed jackets. its house paper is the canadian - made rolland’s zephyr antique laid, a creamy, sensual book paper. overall, the result is strong, flexible, attractive books that are comfortable, attractive and durable. in addition to the trade titles, gaspereau press occasionally releases letterpress books, broadsides, and chapbooks .
jostling with stephen for floor space will be local letterpress poster printer laura macdonald of deep hollow print. laura was formerly an intern both here at gaspereau press and hatch show print in nashville, and has recently set up show near port williams, ns, where she has been cranking out everything from coffee bags to gig posters for the local market. last i checked, she was planning to print a multi - colour linoleum cut during the day .
with luck, she added ,
we can still find a way to supply the books to everyone who wants a copy in a way that would sit well with gaspereau as well as everyone else - including me .
this year’s guests of honour are jan & crispin elsted of barbarian press in mission, bc. internationally, the elsted’s are arguably canada’s best - known and revered fine press book publishers, and are particularly well known for their ongoing series of books on wood engraving called endgrain editions. the press’s other publications range from new english translations of poetry and prose from various languages and new poetry in english to bibliography, illustrated classics, and typography. if you come to the wayzgoose for no other reason than to meet these two and see their gorgeous books in person, we’ll forgive you. as well as printing in the shop through the day, the elsteds will give the douglas lochhead memorial book - arts lecture in the evening .
arthur said he was struck buy the book' s
exquisite writing
and its similarity to paul harding' s 2010 pulitzer prize - winning debut novel tinkers, which his company is also publishing in britain. like many observers, he is semi - respectful of gaspereau' s anti - commercial stance .
i think the jury inadvertently screwed the giller by giving the prize to this purist little press ,
one disappointed publisher said, speaking anonymously. for the first time ever, he added, few of the nominated titles are being promoted or are even available at the indigo - chapters chain .
that' s unbelievable .
for first in the poetry collection, but it only goes to show that you can’t predict a jury’s taste. the jacket is quite simple on this one, with an unusual salmon - coloured paper from the saint armand mill in montreal. the type (goudy’s deepdene) is printed letterpress from photopolymer plates, but the image on each jacket is handprinted from an original wood engraving by wesley bates. i always worry about printing longer blocks of text in anything other than black ink, but the judges didn’t seem to mind. that oak leaf ornament is part of a suite of decorations designed by local calligrapher and illustrator jack mcmaster for the exclusive use of gaspereau press .
the subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures .
now she openly admits to being
concerned
about the partners' decision to continue hand - printing her prize - winning first novel at the leisurely rate of 1, 000 books a week .
every writer at any stage of your career - prizes or no prizes, no matter what - you want as many readers as you can get ,
she said .
this is a tremendous opportunity for that .
the impasse certainly undercuts claims about the vaunted giller effect, which is said to increase sales of winning titles exponentially, and which booksellers large and small across the country rely on to bring christmas cheer .
there is not a single copy of the sentimentalists available in any of the indigo books & music stores, company president joel silver confirmed .
the giller lights a match ,
he said ,
but you still need to feed the fire. … if people aren' t reading about it and talking about it, then i think it' ll fizzle out faster .
and the giller effect is no longer a mere domestic affair. one reason skibsrud can afford to be patient with her artisanal publishers is that british giller juror ali smith helped the young poet acquire an agent and to arrange foreign publication of the sentimentalists even before it emerged as a leading competitor for the 2010 giller prize .
the call from smith' s agent, london - based tracy bohan of the wylie agency, came before the book was long - listed in september, according to skibsrud. acting on what the author called
a gentlewoman' s agreement ,
bohan submitted the book to several london editors and quickly found a buyer in jason arthur, director of william heinemann, an imprint of random house uk .
even before skibsrud received her $ 50, 000 cheque from giller founder jack rabinovitch, she cashed a healthy advance from heinemann for the right to publish her book in britain and the former commonwealth, excluding canada .
by the time we actually saw the book it was on the long list ,
arthur said in an interview yesterday, adding he was
very keen that we did the deal here quickly .
that' s something my publisher and my agent are discussing ,
she said .
i believe that what has been said will be true - that as the demand arises, those books will be supplied .
andrew and i will talk about it and make a decision ,
he said .
that' s what we' ll do .
meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, heinemann' s arthur is rushing to get the book into stores by early next spring .
i wasn' t worried about losing sales ,
he said, describing his quick decision to buy the sentimentalists even before it had won the canadian award .
but i was very keen that we got it out in time to enter it for other prizes it would be eligible for in the u. k .
on the other hand ,
he added ,
i really hope they can find a way to produce enough books for the many readers she' s now going to be attracting .
one irony is that the prize - winning book, much lauded among those who have seen it for its craftsmanship, is currently only available electronically by users of indigo' s kobo e - reader. but skibsrud is good with that .
i' m just excited about literature, no matter what way it can be accessed ,
she said .
i' m just hoping there will be a copy of some kind for every single person who wants one .
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in order to focus its resources on book publishing and printing. it also won its first of many national literary awards—the governor general’s literary award for poetry for george elliott clarke’s
you can’t judge a book by its cover, but if you like you can navigate that way. click on a book jacket to see more information about that book .
at the crossroads: a history of sackville, new brunswick william b. hamilton
hector maclean: the writings of a loyalist - era military settler in nova scotia jo currie, keith mercer, john g. reid
in the suicide' s library: books, collecting, and mid - life. tim bowling
likely they didn' t get the memo: a radio story willard a. bishop
writing the common: being an anthology of poetry commemorating the 250th ann. of the halifax common multiple authors
2016 / printing history / biography / $ 75. 00 9781554471591 / fine / 24 pp
2017 / design / book / graphic arts / typography / $ 24. 95 can / $ 24. 95 us 9781554471799 / trade paper
thanks for posting the videos and sharing a little of the life of a bookmaker .
wood engravings are quite robust, but occasionally they sustain damage. sometimes it' s something hard in the paper or crud in your ink. whatever it is, a divot or small nick or depression appears in the block. there' s an old trick for sweating the depression up to type high again. placing a drop of water in the hole, you carefully hold a lighted match just above the wood and steam up the wood grain. not a tool you find in photoshop. this is the block for binnie brennan' s new book jacket, which was giving me grief yesterday .
here is a nice review from canadian architect of' a vision in wood & stone: the architecture of mount allison university' by john leroux and thaddeus holownia. have a read and then go for a stroll through the mount allison university campus .
more than anything else, a single colour defines the architecture of mount allison university’s picturesque campus in sackville, new brunswick .
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but wait! there’s more. we’ll also be joined by the letterpress printer stephen sword of stiff’n’sore in stouffville, ontario. stephen’s approach to printing is a playful one which explores the typographical realm. he also has a keen interest in nineteeth - century printing technology, particularly machines with a canadian connection. stephen will be our albion wranger this wayzgoose .
still inky but pressless, the toronto calligrapher kevin king will also be in the shop through the day to show off his astonishing knowledge of and love for letterforms .
our staff will also be running presses and casting metal slugs – the usual wild and crazy mix of wayzgoosery .
is a collection of poems written by harry thurston on the west coast (where he was doing a residency) back home to allan cooper on the east coast. allan’s poems (set in italic), in essence, echo and respond to harry’s (set in roman). the design of the book echoes the intimate sensibilities of this poetic conversation; it’s a small format, a slight book, and uses lots of white space to express the silences between the poems .
. it again has a letterpress printed jacket using a ‘canal’ paper from the saint armand paper mill. this book is presently shortlisted for the griffin poetry prize .
we tend to bind our trade paperbacks into a black cover stock and then enfold them in a letterpress printed jacket. here is the wave motif repeated again from the jacket. the pattern comes from a suite of borders called alexia designed by philip bouwsma and distributed by canada type .
is set in canadian designer ross mills’ huronia type, distributed by rosetta type in the czech republic. the display type, dokument, was designed by the late jim rimmer and is soon to be re - released in a completely remastered form by canada type. one of the things that i talked the author into dropping all page numbering from the book and instead numbering the poems. this worked wonderfully .
i was particularly pleased to see the bancroft diaries get an award. this is the first in a series of historical journals we hope to publish in the coming years under the editorship of fowler and lockerby. the cover (no jacket) is clean and simple and (hopefully) has enough flexibility to serve the requirements of the various volumes in the series. the types are adobe caslon and matthew carter’s big caslon .
a book of this sort poses many interesting elements to be worked out by the designer, including footnotes, captions and maps .
the main event in this book is the diary. be produced the text of the diary on recto pages with the corresponding annotations on the facing versos. this way, the editors’ intensive work elucidating the text was immediately accessible to the reader, stressing its value and importance to the experience of reading the primary text. the notes are set in martin majoor’s scala sans. this book posed many interesting design problems and it was a lot of fun to work out their solutions. this book is also shortlisted for an atlantic book award .
– because it was based on the story of a real - life catholic missionary in northern canada – used a sketch made by the real - life petitot and transformed his actual signature into the title .
because this missionary had published books about his time in the north, i borrowed from the aesthetic of those nineteenth - centry french books when thinking about the typography .
the type i selected for this book was fournier, a digital revival based on the french neoclassical types of the pierre - simon fournier (1712–1768) .
hillary savage printing slugs hot off the ludlow caster. steven slipp in the background .
in the prose non - fiction category, steeves took the first place prize for merging: contemplations on farming & ecology from horseback by soren bondrup - nielsen and the second place prize for his own book smoke proofs: essays on literary publishing, printing and typography .
steeves received the second place prize in the poetry category for circa nineteen hundred and grief by tim bowling and two honorable mentions for peeling rambutan by gillian sze and generations re - merging by shalan joudry .
“the difference between good and bad design is an intellectual question, it’s an imaginative question, it’s not an economic question, ” he says. “if we tend to win more designs i think it’s because we indulge that possibility that it’s worthwhile. ”
“when a small number of people maintain control on the making of an object, from the beginning to the end, ” steeves says, “it must have an impact on your ability to make a thing that is in harmony and suits its purpose. ”
“we’re trying to make affordable tools that are used daily towards the construction and preservation of our culture, ” steeves says. “we’re not making monuments and decorative things. ”
steeves says, “when i’m picking manuscripts i’m not deaf to what the market can bear but my main motivation is to make books that i want to see in the world. ”
while things like the author, market and cost into consideration steeves says, “at the end of the day we’re really making books that please us and hoping there’s other people out there that will share that interest. ”
alissa macdougall is atlantic books today' s editorial intern. she recently completed her fourth year of university in halifax .
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gaspereau press is a canadian book publishing company , based in kentville , nova scotia . established in 1997 by andrew steeves and gary dunfield , the company 's philosophy emphasizes " making books that reinstate the importance of the book as a physical object " , maintaining control over the design and the manufacturing quality of its titles as one of the few canadian publishing houses that continues to print and bind its own books in-house . the company attracted press attention in 2010 when one of its titles , johanna skibsrud 's novel the sentimentalists , won the scotiabank giller prize . the book , which had been rejected by several larger publishing houses before gaspereau picked it up , had originally been published in a limited run of just 800 copies ; however , the award win pushed demand for the book well beyond the 1,000 copies per week that the company 's printing press could produce at maximum capacity , resulting in the book being unavailable in stores for almost two weeks after the giller announcement . the company in the meantime announced that it had sold the novel 's trade paperback rights to douglas & mcintyre , while it will continue to print a smaller run of the novel 's original edition for book collectors . 
gaspereau press is a canadian book publishing company, based in kentville, nova scotia. established in 1997 by andrew steeves and gary dunfield, the company's philosophy emphasizes " making books that reinstate the importance of the book as a physical object ", maintaining control over the design and the manufacturing quality of its titles as one of the few canadian publishing houses that continues to print and bind its own books in-house. the company attracted press attention in 2010 when one of its titles, johanna skibsrud's novel the sentimentalists, won the scotiabank giller prize. the book, which had been rejected by several larger publishing houses before gaspereau picked it up, had originally been published in a limited run of just 800 copies; however, the award win pushed demand for the book well beyond the 1,000 copies per week that the company's printing press could produce at maximum capacity, resulting in the book being unavailable in stores for almost two weeks after the giller announcement. the company in the meantime announced that it had sold the novel's trade paperback rights to douglas & mcintyre, while it will continue to print a smaller run of the novel's original edition for book collectors.
gaspereau press is a canadian book publishing company, based in kentville, nova scotia. established in 1997 by andrew steeves and gary dunfield, the company's philosophy emphasizes " making books that reinstate the importance of the book as a physical object ", maintaining control over the design and the manufacturing quality of its titles as one of the few canadian publishing houses that continues to print and bind its own books in-house. the company attracted press attention in 2010 when one of its titles, johanna skibsrud's novel the sentimentalists, won the scotiabank giller prize. the book, which had been rejected by several larger publishing houses before gaspereau picked it up, had originally been published in a limited run of just 800 copies; however, the award win pushed demand for the book well beyond the 1,000 copies per week that the company's printing press could produce at maximum capacity, resulting in the book being unavailable in stores for almost two weeks after the giller announcement. the company in the meantime announced that it had sold the novel's trade paperback rights to douglas & mcintyre, while it will continue to print a smaller run of the novel's original edition for book collectors.