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Godine at Forty: A Retrospective of Four Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher
Godine at Forty A Retrospective of Four Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher Author:David R. Godine 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... more », 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.
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.« less