Godine at Forty: A Retrospective of Four Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher |  | Author: David R. Godine
Publisher: David R Godine
Category: Book
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
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Pages: 224
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ISBN: 1567924093
EAN: 9781567924091
ASIN: 1567924093
Publication Date: October 1, 2012 (In 127 Days)
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Product Description
Forty years ago, a few young college graduates set up shop in an abandoned cow barn on the last working farm in Boston. They were all in their early twenties, had some experience in printing and absolutely none in publishing. Over the next four decades, they gradually acquired enough experience to produce a good number of quite respectable books, all of them grounded in the original and largely intact ambition to (as they put it succinctly, if somewhat portentously) publish books that mattered for people who cared.
In this large-format, full-color overview, the publisher has attempted to select and describe roughly two hundred titles that did, in fact, make a difference. It includes the first American editions of such acclaimed authors as John Banville, Richard Rodriguez, Andre Dubus, and Georges Perec. It features the various lists of the house's particular specialties: children's books, with authors and illustrators as diverse as Mary Azarian, Barbara McClintock, Andrea Wisnewski, Edward Ardizzone, and Daniel C. Beard. It selects the best books from the various series: the Nonpareil list that reprinted the work of Donald Hall, Will Cuppy, Ludwig Bemelmans, William Maxwell, and Paula Fox, among countless others; the Verba Mundi series, which introduced American readers to classics of foreign literature by Dino Buzzati, Robert Musil, Patrick Modiano, José Donoso, and the 2008 Nobel Laureate, J.M.G.Le Clézio. It highlights the company's traditional strengths: the first photography books of Arnold Newman, Joyce Tenneson, Rosamond Purcell, Sally Mann, Paul Caponigro, and George Tice; and it reconfirms its fascination with authors exploring the shapes of letters and the design and history of the printed word.
Produced to high standards of design and production, organized by category, with every book, and considerable ephemera, illustrated and discussed, here is a panorama of four decades of careful, concentrated, and diverse work by one of this country's last remaining independent publishers.
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