Palaemon Press printed materials collection, 1966-1986 and undated.

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Palaemon Press printed materials collection, 1966-1986 and undated.

Collection comprises approximately 180 items. Includes signed and numbered limited edition broadsides of poetry; publicity flyers, invitations, catalogs, and handlists; printer's proofs for short stories and poetry; one artist's proof of a woodcut of Robert Penn Warren; and 3 woodcut blocks. Authors represented include Reynolds Price, Robert Penn Warren, William Faulkner, Allen Tate, Flannery O'Connor, George Garrett, James Applewhite, James Dickey, Ellen Wilbur, Wendell Berry, and many others.

303 items (1.5 lin. ft.)

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Palaemon Press

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Palaemon Press Limited was a small, literary publishing house, established in 1977, by Stuart T. Wright, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Its name derives from Greek mythology. Palaemon was the name of several characters from ancient Greek mythology and history, including a son of Hercules and one of the Argonauts who sought the mythic golden fleece. The word Palaemon has multiple scientific meanings: signifying both a family of insects and a genus of shrimp. Palaemon Press specialized in small...