I got to spend a day in the book heaven of CODEX in Oakland after a six year layoff due to the pandemic. It was good to be back and inspiring to see the fair get bigger and bigger. It took all of four hours or more to walk past every exhibitors table even though I mainly only stop at presses that produce fine press literature and not ones that create book art objects. If there’s nothing to read, I rarely stop. Even so, I was so rushed that I took no photos and had little time to thumb through the books; choosing rather to engage in conversations with the printers and others staffing the tables.
The books I was hoping to see were the Prototype Press Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the Arion Press Winnie-the-Pooh, and the new Thomas Paine from Foolscap Press. Suffice it to say that all three of these would have come home with me if I had a book benefactor!
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