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Arundel Books

Welcome to the internet home of Arundel Bookstores and its affiliates. Click here to learn more about us. We have a beautiful retail store in Seattle, which you are always welcome to visit, and two large internet warehouses (in Seattle and on Vashon Island). We will soon be opening an amazing new facility on Vashon Island, with an active workshop and event program.

We stock well over 100,000 titles, and it is easy to search our complete collection from all four locations online. Curious about how we handle our internet orders?

Arundel Books was founded in 1984 to publish original editions of literature and graphic arts. We continue to publish work we believe in, and hope you take the opportunity to browse our publications.

Big News in the Arundel Books Family:

Our Vashon Island Book affiliate has purchased an incredible building on Vashon Island (a short ferry ride from West Seattle). We are truly thrilled about this, and about our plans to turn this new property into something truly unique and special. To get an idea of what we are working on, please visit our work-in-progress website, www.thebookarts.org, where more information is being added almost every day.

In other news, after more than two decades, we have closed our Los Angeles store, and are in the process of moving the inventory and exhibit fixtures to the new building on Vashon (the entire store inventory remains available on this website).

New Publication from Arundel Press

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book from Arundel Press. James B. Moore's Swan Dive is a poignant collection of poems from the perspective of a man of a certain age, who, although he has surrendered any expectation of romantic fulfillment, yet retains that last shred of hope... and it is that last shred that makes him vulnerable and this small collection at once so searing and so endearing.

This, the author's first book, is limited to 100 copies signed by the author. The work was printed letterpress at Arundel Press by Phil Bevis, Derek Smith, and Rebecca Mancuso on our vintage Asbern Proof Press. Typography designed with the kind assistance of Gerald Lange of Bieler Press. [16] pages, handsewn.

A hardcover edition is forthcoming.

Softcover Price $45.00
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"don't you kill him 
 

at a nightclub 

after midnight 

on New Year's Eve 

with a beautiful much younger 

woman 

we leave arm in arm, smiling 

a hooker at the next table 

calls our to my date 

“don't you kill him tonight, girl!” 

as we both laugh 

I notice my date's laughter 

is louder"

Rare Book Gallery

Here is a selection from our diverse stock of rare books.


IMPORTANT group of original letters, etc., by William Gaddis

An important collection of early letters from noted American author William Gaddis, to friend and fellow author & traveler William Haygood, all dated 1954 (the year before publication of his first novel, The Recognitions.

"Only recently I began to consider the possibility that youth is gone, and that I'd better damn soon figure out what I'm going to be when I grow up... I've had about enough of this pondering profound half-truths in cold empty rooms, and look forward to making some attempt at metempsychosis from this shade into a human being."

Click here to see a list of these great Gaddis items
Click Here To See More of Our Rare Book Selection and more about these great Gaddis letters!.


New Publication: Vanessa Rudloff and Rex Wilder: Beauty and the Books

Beauty and the Books, a portfolio of photographs by Vanessa Rudloff, with accompanying poems by Rex Wilder, is a true creative collaboration between author and artist. The oversized portfolio (17 x 11 inches) of seven signed photographs is accompanied by Wilder's poems in broadside format.

The edition is limited to 30 numbered copies. The text was printed letterpress on an Asbern proof press at the Arundel Press studio. The portfolio cases, covered in Japanese silk, are by the Campbell-Logan Bindery in Minneapolis.  SPECIAL PRE-PUBLICATION PRICE: $495.00 Click to order

This is the first book by Rudloff, a remarkably talented young photographer. As she says, "Beauty and the Books manifested itself from an errant suggestion to make reading sexy. What could be sexier than lazily reading a book in the nude?" The photographs were shot on location at Arundel Books' store in Seattle. Rex Wilder has been widely published in major English language magazines and reviews. An elegant formalist and leader of the New Romantics, Wilder has been praised for his classical appreciation of the fairer sex.


Photo copyright 2009 Vanessa Rudloff.

New Publication from Arundel Press

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book from Arundel Press. Sea of Hooks by Lindsay Hill renews our long association with one of America's most remarkable writers, a poet (and soon to be novelist) of distinction. Lindsay Hill is one of our favorite all-time poets, author of ARCHAEOLOGY, CONTENGO, KILL SERIES, NDJENFERNO, etc.

Sea of Hooks is a poetry chapbook, and is a hand-printed limited edition is signed by author. Of 75 total copies issued, this is one of 55 copies bound in handmade paper (the other 22 have fish-hooks - yes, real fish-hooks - embedded in the cover).

The paper for the covers was was specially made for this edition by Derek Smith at the Uerthmann Paper Mill on Vashon Island. The text was printed in handset Garamond by Derek Smith, Jessalyn Wakefield, Phil Bevis and Chris Dusterhoff on an Asbern Press at our own studio on Frankfurt laid paper.

Price: $45.00
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