7 new titles: The Toothpaste Press
West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1980. 4¼" x 10" trifold letterpress catalogue for the 1980 new releases, green trim along right edge. More
Dear friends and colleagues,
This list contains nearly 150 back-stock broadsides from the Coffee House Press, one of the nation’s leading independent literary publishers, here in Minneapolis. Coffee House Press began as a small letterpress operation in 1972 and has grown into an internationally renowned nonprofit publisher of literary fiction, essay, poetry, and other work that doesn’t fit neatly into genre categories.
Also included are broadsides from the precursor of Coffee House, the Toothpaste Press. Both operations were inaugurated and run by the late Allan Kornblum, poet, fine printer, and publisher.
Many of these broadsides are available in multiple copies, while others are present in only a copy or two.
Rob Rulon-Miller
West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1980. 4¼" x 10" trifold letterpress catalogue for the 1980 new releases, green trim along right edge. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1989. 11" x 14" broadside, printed at the first Coffee House Press Open House, 1989. More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1988. 15" x 6" commemorative broadside celebrating CHP's move to its new home at 27 North Fourth Street, printed on blue paper. "The display types appearing above ("Books, Books, Books, Books...) "represent sixteen years of quixotic acquisition." More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1988. 15" x 6" commemorative broadside celebrating CHP's move to its new home at 27 North Fourth Street, printed on white paper. "The display types appearing above ("Books, Books, Books, Books...) "represent sixteen years of quixotic acquisition." More
[Saint Paul]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [ca. 1984]. 23" x 16" broadside, text in double column under a running head, printed in red and black on coffee-colored paper. Gaylord Schanilec traced the vignette illustration printed at the top, and adapted it for the Coffee House Press press mark. The text of this broadside, the first illustrated broadside advertising an English coffee house, was first printed in 1674. Not in Quarter to Midnight. More
[Saint Paul]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [ca. 1984]. 17½" x 11½" broadside, text in double column under a running head, printed in red and black on white paper. Gaylord Schanilec traced the vignette illustration printed at the top, and adapted it for the Coffee House Press press mark. The text of this broadside, the first illustrated broadside advertising an English coffee house, was first printed in 1674. More
West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press, [1984?]. 4½" x 6½" Invitation to CHP's Holiday Open House in West Branch, Iowa. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [after 1992]. 12" x 19" broadside printed in brown with relief print border, artist unknown, featuring an abridged conception of Coffee House Press through the European coffee house tradition, trimmed to image, as issued. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [after 1992]. 19½" x 13" broadside with relief print border, artist unknown, featuring an abridged conception of Coffee House Press through the European coffee house tradition, with blank border on 3 sides. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1999. 13½" x 10½" broadside commemorating the 15th anniversary of CHP, featuring relief print, artist unknown. More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, [1993]. 4¼" x 10" Coffee House Press catalogue detailing letterpress printing services offered and products available. Red ink trim along right edge. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, n.d. 11" x 14" broadside listing the print services offered through the Coffee House Press Letterpress Program. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [1992 or after]. Broadside, 11½" x 18", two color on blue paper. More
[Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, n.d., ca. late 1980s]. 3½" x 5" calling card for Graywolf Press printed by Allan Kornblum at the Coffee House Press. More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1994. Edition limited to 94 numbered copies (this copy out of series); 7½" x 11" letterpress broadside commissioned by the Minnesota State Arts Board to commemorate the Weaver's Guild of Minnesota's organization and production of Convergence 94, the biennial conference of the Handweavers Guild of America, 1994. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1987. 11½" x 15" broadside printed at the Science Museum of Minnesota as part of the exhibition "Printing: From Craft to Technology," and published in the bicentennial year of the U. S. Constitution. More
[West Branch, Iowa]: Coffee House Press, n.d., [1984]. 5" x 7¼" invitation to meet Elizabeth Eddy at publication party for Litany, at Guild Books, Chicago; printed on orange paper with red ornamental relief print along rag.¼" More
[Minneapolis]: printed for friends of Coffee House Press, 1991. 9½" x 12½" poetry broadside printed alongside a relief print, artist unknown, on pink paper. More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1986. 4" x 7¾" bifoliate prospectus for the Hungry Mind Book Review: A Midwestern Book Review, reviewing Louise Erdrich, Patricia Hampl, W. P. Kinsella, Scott Walker, and others. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1989. Broadside, 15" x 11¼" presented by the Artists and Art Organizations of Saint Paul, 1989. This edition on heavy stock white paper. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1997. 11" x 15" broadside with a relief print printed in honor of Jim Sitter's contributions to the literary field during his tenure at CLMP. More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, n.d. 8½" x 11" letterpress broadside printed for Pack-It-Bindery, Inc., in support of the BIA Committee for Effective Literacy. More
West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1976. Broadside, 11½" x 7" green print on beige heavyweight paper. More
West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press, n.d., [ca. late 1970s]. 5" x 7½" broadside on light blue paper announcing new titles (year unknown). With a manuscript note at the bottom, likely in Cinda Kornblum's hand. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1997. 11" x 7½", prose excerpt printed to announce the Fall 1997 publication of High Holiday Sutra. More