{"title":"Books \u0026 Music, Book Arts \u0026 Letterpress","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003e$10.95 flat rate shipping \/ FREE SHIPPING over $125.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLetterpress is the place where we began, and letterpress is what we love. It may be a digital world, but there is real joy in being connected to real things made by real people using real materials. Perhaps that's why there's been such a great revival in recent years in letterpress and the book arts in general. iPads and Kindles are just fine and part of the evolution of the book... if all you're seeking is information. Books and broadsides by Convivio Bookworks are about something larger: this experience of the handmade object. All of our books are limited editions, printed and bound by hand, very often from historic wood and metal types. Sometimes we have to bind them to order and this can take a few days or even weeks, so do keep this in mind when ordering. As for broadsides, letterpress printers have been making these for centuries. Basically, a broadside is something printed on one side of a sheet of paper, which is a very different sort of challenge than making a book. Early on, broadsides were likely to carry political messages; today, the format is more a vehicle for the artistry of typography and the printer's craft. It's a wonderful match to good text: like poetry for your walls. All of our broadsides, unless noted as an open edition, are limited editions. Just like our books, they are printed by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs for the other books we offer: We essentially offer books we'd like to read ourselves. They tend to focus on food and seasonal traditions and on children's books and classic stories and poetry. We bring home a copy, for our own home library, of almost every book we carry in our shop, and we strive to read them all, too. We hope you enjoy our curated collection and find something you'd like to read, too!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003eCOME SEE US! Our new shop is open for special events \u0026amp; workshops throughout the year at 1110 North G Street in Lake Worth Beach, Florida. If you see the OPEN TODAY sign in front of the shop, we are open. We are also more than happy to open for you by appointment. Just ask!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"room-of-crosses","title":"The Room of Crosses: Collected and Retold by John Cutrone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eA Florida folktale, of sorts, with a pure and simple message: that perhaps things aren't as bad as we think. This is a small and simple prayer-size book with naive pen and ink illustrations by the author. We offer this handmade book in both a regular edition and a deluxe edition. The deluxe edition is letterpress printed form handset metal types on handmade cotton rag and jute Twinrocker papers, then bound by hand in full leather in the French \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eReliure Simplifiée\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003e (Simplified Binding) style. The endpapers are handmade Fabriano Roma. Numbers 1 through 35 comprise the deluxe edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe regular edition is letterpress printed from handset metal types on Frankfurt cotton rag paper, then bound by hand and cased inside full cloth-covered boards with the same blue handmade Fabriano Roma endsheets we used in the deluxe edition. A printed label completes the package. Numbers 36 through125 comprise the regular edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth editions are 24 pages, printed late 2004. Regular edition $125. The deluxe edition on handmade paper and full leather, housed in a chitsu box, is $450. Unbound sheets for bookbinders are available, as well: regular edition $85, handmade paper edition $125. 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This amusing broadside tells the story and gives the directions so you can be an unusual apple cutter yourself. Features a colorful monoprint linoleum. Each one is different as each was essentially \"painted\" on the bed of the press. Printed letterpress from handset metal types in an edition of 95 on Mohawk Superfine paper. 9 1\/2\" x 12 1\/2, 1997.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAvailable framed in wood, matted under glass: $80. The frame is a simple design with clean, elegant lines. Specify frame finish: Cherry, Black, Natural or Honey.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Convivio Bookworks","offers":[{"title":"Unframed","offer_id":343931659,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Framed Cherry","offer_id":344328179,"sku":"","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Framed Black","offer_id":344328283,"sku":"","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Framed Natural","offer_id":344328983,"sku":"","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Framed Honey","offer_id":344329213,"sku":"","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0254\/3543\/products\/dadsapple1.jpg?v=1382391061"},{"product_id":"a-bailey-white-broadside","title":"A Bailey White Broadside","description":"\u003cp\u003eFeaturing an excerpt from the novel \u003cem\u003eQuite a Year for Plums, \u003c\/em\u003ethis is another of our offerings from Bailey White, the best selling author and National Public Radio humorist. Includes the wonderful line \"Drunken birds whopsided from eating fermented plums staggered across lawns,\" which is a sentence we just can't get enough of. Printed letterpress from handset type on Mohawk Superfine paper in an edition of 250 on the occasion of a reading by the author in Portland, Maine. The found illustration on each broadside is colored by hand, so no two are exactly alike. Signed by the author. 9 1\/2\" x 12 1\/2\", 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAvailable framed in wood, matted under glass: $75. The frame is a simple design with clean, elegant lines. Specify frame finish: Cherry, Black, Natural or Honey.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Convivio Bookworks","offers":[{"title":"Unframed Broadside","offer_id":344330849,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Framed Cherry","offer_id":344330851,"sku":"","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Framed Black","offer_id":344330853,"sku":"","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Framed Natural","offer_id":344330855,"sku":"","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Framed Honey","offer_id":344330857,"sku":"","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0254\/3543\/products\/Bailey_White_4.jpg?v=1382405349"},{"product_id":"the-pilgrim-pumpkin-rhyme","title":"The Pilgrim Pumpkin Rhyme","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis piece of New England doggerel in honor of the most venerable of the squashes was anonymously penned by a Plymouth Plantation colonist in the late 1600s. Printed letterpress on an antique iron handpress (a 19th century Washington style Wesel Handpress) on thick, downright luxurious English Somerset paper in an edition of 150. The illustration is from an 1885 engraving of the French varietal pumpkin, Rouge Vif d'Etampes, knows as the Cinderella Pumpkin. A most elegant broadside. 11\" x 17\", 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis broadside is currently not available framed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Convivio Bookworks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":344340269,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0254\/3543\/products\/pumpkin_bf1c5b90-657a-422d-882e-a170ddbc73b9.jpg?v=1382391602"},{"product_id":"the-big-me-and-the-pygmy","title":"The Big Me and The Pygmy by Madam X","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis sweet little book offers, in just a few wonderful pages, a valuable lesson on the importance of each and every human being. The book is printed letterpress in the author's hand on French Speckletone paper, based on an original design by Madam X. The color is gouache applied by hand using \u003cem\u003epochoir\u003c\/em\u003e, a French stenciling process with a long history, in which color is pounded into the paper with stiff brushes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is bound in a softcover wrap, letterpress printed and pochoir colored, just like the text pages. The colored lettering on the cover is watercolor, applied by brush. We bound the books in a stitch that calls to mind Madam X's calligraphic insignia, in red linen thread. Madam X painstakingly signed each copy, and though we signed them, too, our signatures are not nearly as beautiful as hers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Big Me and The Pygmy\u003c\/em\u003e was printed in an edition of 125 copies. Beautifully simple. $65 for the regular edition, but we also offer the book in unbound sheets for bookbinders who wish to bind the book their own way. $50 for the book in sheets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Madam X\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eNothing is known about Madam X. But you may visit her website: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.humanbeingsociety.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewww.humanbeingsociety.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Convivio Bookworks","offers":[{"title":"Regular Bound Edition","offer_id":345128847,"sku":"","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Unbound Sheets","offer_id":384700342,"sku":"","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0254\/3543\/products\/BigMe-Cover.jpeg?v=1376068683"},{"product_id":"woods-story","title":"Woods Story by John Cutrone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eA miniature story in a miniature book, concerning the Wonderful that exists, often beyond our awareness. The story began with two intriguing lines in a letter sent to me by my old friend Mary Jo Barnett of Bluefield, West Virginia. In her letter, she was telling me what she found once when she and her brother Bill went off into the woods near their house. Mary Jo told her enchanting story in two sentences, and for this book, I took off from there to fill in the details between them. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003eMary Jo was a great woman who moved to New York and graduated from Parsons Design School in her 80s. She would say, with great enthusiasm, \"Well shake my hand!\" every time she agreed with something you said. She agreed that this was a fine book. I still miss Mary Jo Barnett.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.2;\"\u003ePrinted letterpress from handset metal types in an edition of 85 on Arches Text Laid paper with a cover of handmade cedar or cattail paper (depending on our whim) in an exposed chainlink stitch binding. The illustrations were done by scratching the emulsion off of a negative with a pencil, then exposing the negatives onto photopolymer plates and printing them on the Vandercook. The book measures about 3 inches square. 12 pages, 1997.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Convivio Bookworks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":345144469,"sku":"","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0254\/3543\/products\/woodsstory.jpg?v=1382560417"},{"product_id":"works-on-paper","title":"Works on Paper by Shin Yu Pai","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of poetry has paper as its theme: how it is made, how it is used, paper as surface, paper in spirit. The poems have an essential simplicity about them, and we have treated them accordingly, with paper as medium, paper as guide, paper as binding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA series of handmade Moriki endsheets in earthen colors guides the reader through four poetic cycles; the book itself is sewn on a concertina structure of handmade Fabriano Roma. Each book is then bound in boards wrapped in Kumoi paper printed with beeswax and dyed in kakishibu–a traditional Japanese natural dye made from fermented persimmons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorks on Paper \u003c\/em\u003eis printed letterpress in an edition of 125 copies on bleached and unbleached kozo papers. We began the printing during Obon 2006, and completed it at the lunar new year in the winter that followed. Each copy is signed by the makers, as well as by the poet, who stamped the title page in red ink with her chop. A most unusual book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShin Yu Pai \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of five previous books of poems, including \u003cem\u003eSightings: Selected Works\u003c\/em\u003e [2000-2005] (1913 Press, 2007), \u003cem\u003eThe Love Hotel Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Press Lorentz, 2006), and \u003cem\u003eEquivalence\u003c\/em\u003e (La Alameda Press, 2003). Her work has been anthologized in \u003cem\u003eAmerica Zen: A Gathering of Poets\u003c\/em\u003e (Bottom Dog Press, 2004) and \u003cem\u003eThe Wisdom of North American Buddhist Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (Wisdom Publications, 2005). Shin Yu has been quite prolific since the publication of this book, too. She is, as well, an accomplished visual artist. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.shinyupai.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewww.shinyupai.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Convivio Bookworks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":345147721,"sku":"","price":245.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0254\/3543\/products\/Works_on_Paper_2.jpg?v=1382330422"},{"product_id":"occident-to-orient","title":"Occident to Orient by Zaid Shlah","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn March 5, 2007, a car bomb was detonated on Mutanabbi Street, the centuries-old center of bookselling in Baghdad. In an attempt to bring something positive out of the destruction, an initial group of some 50 letterpress printers around the world gathered together to created the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition. The Coalition's goal was to respond to the tragedy with positive creativity: by printing the work of Iraqi poets and supporting Doctors Without Borders–a non-profit agency working to relieve suffering in Iraq and in other troubled areas of the world–through the sales of these braodsides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe worked with poet Zaid Shlah on a beautiful piece in four movements. Letterpress printed in an edition of 100 copies on deckled Somerset paper, illustrated with an old printer's device that feels, to us, extremely connected. The colophon explains our reasoning. Each broadside is signed by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA significant portion of the edition was given to the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition for the group's fundraising efforts, and for what remains, we, too, are donating 10% of the purchase price directly to Doctors Without Borders. Measures 12\" x 18\". Currently available unframed only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ewords like feathers I have plucked\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003efrom our mouth: cardamom, zahferon,\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eu sukar; and what about the labyrinth\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003enegligee you whirl, and the giants you placate, is this\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003emine or yours to bear? still, there is no\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003erationale, -- hips, arms and thighs, palms over\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaghdad continue to sway, breasts sweeter\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ethan dates--arak, white in delicate glass the Caliphate, and all the Arabian horses\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ecould not stop us, almond green eyes, green\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eand given to dance, given to us, given; and all you are is dance\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Convivio Bookworks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":345183639,"sku":"","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0254\/3543\/products\/occident2.jpg?v=1382291266"},{"product_id":"in-harmony-with-wood-by-christian-becksvoort","title":"In Harmony with Wood by Christian Becksvoort","description":"\u003cp\u003eChris Becksvoort crafts exquisite handmade furniture at his workshop in New Gloucester, Maine. He is also a contributing editor to \u003cem\u003eFine Woodworking\u003c\/em\u003e magazine and the author of the Taunton Press book \u003cem\u003eThe Shaker Legacy: Perspectives on Enduring Furniture Style\u003c\/em\u003e. (Did you happen to catch his appearance as himself in NBC's \u003cem\u003eParks and Recreation\u003c\/em\u003e?) This broadside features a poetic philosophy on the craft of woodworking, with Chris' own beautifully detailed illustrations of trees in winter: Sweet Gum, Black Cherry, Persimmon, and Bald Cypress. Printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine paper in an edition of 175 on the occasion of a reading at the Shaker Library at Sabbathday Lake, Maine. A portion of the proceeds benefits the Shaker Library Endowment Fund. Signed by the author. 7 1\/2\" x 12 1\/2\", 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAvailable framed in wood, matted under glass: $75. The frame is a simple design with clean, elegant lines. 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The type was set digitally then printed letterpress from photopolymer plates on the Vandercook 4 press. We printed it alongside a cyanotype print of a found early 20th century photographic negative, exposed in the Florida sun. The cyanotype chemistry was brushed on by hand, so no two are exactly alike. 45 copies were printed in the edition, with additional artists' proofs. 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Convivio Bookworks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":379271715,"sku":"","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0254\/3543\/products\/whiteinsistance1.jpg?v=1382391196"},{"product_id":"tea-poem","title":"Tea Poem by Nick Vagnoni","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Florida project. The poem is by Miami writer Nick Vagnoni and the artwork by Lake Worth artist John Rachell, who happens to live just up the road from us. We designed and printed this piece, which was created as part of Book Arts Miami's Sweat Project, which brought South Florida artists and writers together in a collaborative spirit under the theme, fittingly enough for Florida, of \"sweat.\" Being the contrary fellows that we are, we opted for a poem about winter, which is why we were ecstatic about John Rachell's original drawing of trees in winter, rendered in charcoal. It was tough translating it to letterpress: It had to be printed on dampened paper with a whole lot of tympan paper on the press and a whole lot of muscle. But it was worth it. 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Letterpress printed from handset metal types on paper from the French Construction line and bound in a wrap printed from historic wood types. The linoleum cut is by Convivio partner Seth Thompson. The edition numbers 195. This was the first book we made in our Lake Worth studio, so it was fitting, we think, to print a tale about the old mango tree that watches over it. 8 pages, 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe offer this edition in its regular bound version at $48, and we also offer it in unbound sheets for bookbinders who want to bind it in their own way. $42 for the book in sheets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Convivio Bookworks","offers":[{"title":"Regular Bound Edition","offer_id":379388153,"sku":"","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Unbound Sheets","offer_id":384696988,"sku":"","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0254\/3543\/products\/mango_62ae8058-2cb8-4064-b99d-c8c9aac86308.jpg?v=1382403497"},{"product_id":"u-cutto-an-old-family-recipe-by-john-cutrone","title":"U Cutto: An Old Family Recipe by John Cutrone","description":"\u003cp\u003ePronounced \u003cem\u003eoo-cooto \u003c\/em\u003e(which is from the Italian dialect that my grandparents spoke). 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The concert recording takes its name from the opening song: \"Count Your Blessings,\" which is something we try our best to remember to do. There are days, of course, when we forget this simple act, but coming back to counting our blessings is always the goal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCopperman's Day, for us, is an extension of the Christmas season, falling as it does on the First Monday after Epiphany, and Christmas 2023 was a Christmas where we keenly felt the absence of Haden, the Convivio Shopcat. She'd been with us since Labor Day Weekend, 2005, and on the 15th of September, 2023, we had to say our goodbyes. All these weeks and months later, we still miss her terribly. 18 years is a long time, and yet still not long enough. \"Count your blessings\" were words that went along with Haden. We appreciated every moment we had with her, and Christmas this year has been a bit, or a lot, melancholy, without her striped orange presence. She seemed to love Christmas as much as we do: she loved the tree, she loved perching atop the presents, and she even seemed to love the music (except, perhaps, the CD of Scandinavian and Russian music we play each Midwinter solstice night... the stomping and whooping made Haden's ears twitch a lot and we could discern a bit of a scowl on her face).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"Count Your Blessings\" CD was one she liked, and so it felt only right to make this our Copperman's Day print. The song was written by Edith Temple and Reginald Morgan in 1946, and the lyrics that get us every time are these:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCount your blessings while you may, For we are here, with little time to stay.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe've dedicated this year's print to our beloved little pal, Haden. As for Copperman's Day: it is an old Dutch printer's holiday, falling on the First Monday after Epiphany each January. 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