David R. Godine
Boston-based independent publisher, founded in 1970, devoted to meticulous design, fine printing, and bookbinding. Art, photography, typography, nature, and poetry are among its subject areas.
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April 15, 2013
From the Publisher. Before she became a Caldecott medalist, Mary Azarian was a teacher in one of Vermont's last one-room schoolhouses. In the late 1970s, the state board of education commissioned her to create "a farmer's alphabet,... More
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January 15, 2013
From the Publisher. The city of Venice has always provided an almost irresistible lure for both writers and artists. Henry James loved it, as did Ruskin, Browning, Pound, and Brodsky. For artists, it has been a compulsory magnet since the... More
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Selected Backlist
2007
From the Publisher. This playful alphabet, lush with surprising details and limned in delicate colors, was inspired by that familiar and beloved nursery companion—the alphabet block. As reimagined by artist Judy Pelikan, each letter... More
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1990
From the Publisher. Lawson explores the vast territory of types, their development and uses, their antecedents and offspring, with precision, insight, and clarity. Written for the layman but containing exhaustive research, drawings and... More
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2001
From the Publisher. Inspired by or intended for legendary performers past and present, this is a genuinely eccentric book, but there is nothing remotely ethereal about these meticulously drawn and consistently inventive designs, from the... More
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2001
From the Publisher. Complete with 72 pages of color, this landmark book provides the widest possible overview of the lettering arts of this century, a rewarding display of American talent and artistry reproduced to the highest standards. More
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2011
From the Publisher. At once a visual feast and a provocative tour through well- and lesser-known titles, the primary thesis this book suggests is that one world does not have to be sacrificed at the expense of the other. In the hands of... More
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2004
From the Publisher. Any serious book collector (and the most serious belong to The Grolier Club, that pre-eminent New York shrine) harbors a latent penchant for lists.
These lists are usually generated in neat doses of one hundred titles.... More
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2008
From the Publisher. Probably no book designer of the 20th century has had more written about him, his work, or his life than Bruce Rogers. He was, as his primary biographer Joseph Blumenthal observed, the ultimate “artificer of the... More
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2004
From the Publisher. Brad and Mark Leithauser are brothers, born in Detroit in the 1950s. Brad is a bard (the author, most recently, of the novel in verse, Darlington’s Fall), and Mark has made his mark as a painter and... More
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2007
From the Publisher. Printed throughout in two colors, often displaying the various letters, sorts and ornaments that make up the whole, this is our typographic offering of the year—wholly original, totally inventive. In these... More
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2005
From the Publisher. This full-scale biography of Theodore Low De Vinne (1828–1914) explores the life of a seminal figure in the history of American printing. De Vinne was born in upstate New York, the son of an itinerant Methodist... More
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2008
From the Publisher. In the pages of this small-format book, we see displayed the fruits of an entire career, and viewers can judge this "life force" for themselves. Here is a testament to an artist of extraordinary power,... More
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2002
From the Publisher. Edward Ardizzone's long and prolific career spanned over half a century. He died in 1979, one of England's most beloved artists and illustrators. The man who gave us the definitive illustrations for Trollope,... More
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1998
From the Publisher. This lovely book is a celebration of the city's bridges, their architects and designers, their builders and advocates. Readers will find a dazzling array of prose and poetry, from the classics by Hart Crane and William... More
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2007
From the Publisher. The verse is clear and charming, the drawings of extraordinary precision and invention. Framing this catalogue of surprises is a spirited exchange between the toad and nightingale, suggesting that a soiled toad can... More
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