Large archive of American amateur press publications

by [National Amateur Press Association]; [United Amateur Press Association]; [American Amateur Press Association]

$7,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

[Various places]: Various publishers, 1980. Approximately 850 individual issues of 340 different amateur press publications, spanning from the late 1920s to the 1970s. Includes over a hundred duplicate issues as well. Almost all publications were published in the United States, mainly in the '40s, '50s, and '60s. As is typical these were generally printed in very limited runs, sometimes of only a dozen or so copies. Near Fine overall, occasional light wear or staining. Full catalog of the archive's contents provided upon request. This archive consists of rare chapbooks, amateur journalism, joke books, printer's dummies, Christmas cards, and what would nowadays be referred to as zines. Their content is often secondary to their aesthetic dimensions and their relationship to other zines and the community of hobby printers of the time. Much of what they had to say was in their designs. While the origins of the amateur press movement date back to the late 19th century, this era of amateur publications traces the diffusion of printing technology in the era before photomechanical reproduction became widely used (and inflated limitations of zines), and also before the countercultural ethos became dominant in zine-making. With a few notable exceptions (such as the integration vs. segregation debate of the '50s and early '60s) most of these publications were not "political" in any way; the authors weren't concerned with striking an oppositional stance to the dominant culture of the tim

• Publisher: Various publishers
• Year: 1980
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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