Limited editions, letterpress, photobooks, beatniks, outlaws & beautiful printed things. Check back soon for new arrivals! I own and operate the synaesthesia press. I’m a letterpress printer; I publish work by authors I find interesting; I make pictures with a variety of cameras; I make collages and artists’ books; and, finally, I’m a bookseller specializing in collectible first editions, leftist / co**ie / p***o titles, paperback sleaze, erotica, and other books you probably wouldn’t want to read with your parents. I co-founded the synaesthesia press with a writer named Steve Fisher in 1991. Steve wrote terrific short fiction and poems. Steve actually named the press. We were on the phone at 3am or so (Steve’s normal hours to call his friends). Steve suggested me we should start a small publication house. “We should call it the synaesthesia press. We can publish some of my stuff.” I immediately agreed. After we hung up, I ran to the dictionary to look up “synaesthesia“. As a letterpress printer and a publisher, the synaesthesia press makes whatever it is I like and have time to manage. As a photographer, I challenge myself to make interesting pictures. As a bookseller, I generally specialize in good used books generally of a subversive nature. In other words, anything by or about Beatniks, Commies, Pinkos, and Outsiders; I love good literary fiction and almost anything by or about Bukowski; I love little mags, ‘zines, photobooks and art books. I like art books and Artists’ Books; any s**t or sleaze or erotica or cheesecake published before, say, 1970…sans pe*******on shots! I’ve always felt most artists are subversive by nature and love all things s**tty. Kinda rando, I know. I’ve been collecting for 35 years (give or take), and most of what I’m going to start offering here I’ve held for at least a couple of decades. A few since I began collecting. It’s time these titles found a new home. The proceeds from my book sales here fund the synaesthesia press publications.
