The Deluxe Edition includes the four volume collection with leather spines, leather headbands, and decorative stamping and titling. The collection is housed in a telescoping box with an acrylic window to show the spines, and two pedestal feet. Details include handmarbled endsheets, hand painted frontispieces, and a portfolio of hand printed erotic illustrations not included in the limited edition.
Typefaces used are Eric Gill’s Joanna and Perpetua. The books are printed on Arches Rives Lightweight Paper using Hanco Raven Black Ink on a Vandercook Universal III. Deluxe bindings by Amy Borezo. Limited to 25 copies.
The limited edition includes the four volumes bound in cloth with stamping on the spine, housed in a slipcase. Typefaces used are Eric Gill’s Joanna and Perpetua. The books are printed on Arches Rives Lightweight Paper using Hanco Raven Black Ink on a Vandercook Universal III.
Written by Miranda Culp and Jef Delman, Illustrated by Laurelin Gilmore, with Limited Edition Binding by Amy Borezo. Limited to 100 copies.
Written by Tiffany Reisz
Illustrated with wood engravings by Keith Cranmer
75 limited edition, 25 deluxe
Synopsis: This is the story of a woman who has the opportunity to embark on a mid-life journey of exploration - a rare chance to experience other worlds and time periods that go beyond what she has only read about in the books that sit on her bedside table. An unexpected dark turn to her planned vacation leads her on a deeply personal exploration of who she was as a young woman and the woman she wants to become in the second half of her life.
Detailed wood engravings illustrate her erotic exploration and ultimately, her empowered awakening and fulfillment. USA Today Bestselling Author, and NPR book of the year, award winning writer of erotica, Tiffany Reisz, spins a tale that invites the reader to fantasize and escape with its heroine across fantasies that push the boundaries of personal discovery. How far will she be willing to go to discover who she could become?
A gothic horror story set in a storied mansion in a wealthy San Francisco neighborhood. A newly married man discovers that his husband may not be the man he thought. Loosely based on the classic tale The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Written by Theodore Gioia and illustrated by Laurelin Gilmore.
“I am only going to tell you this once. Listen carefully. Do whatever you want in the rest of the house but you must follow three rules. One: The picture must always hang in the parlor with nothing else on the walls. Two: Do not look at the picture no matter what you hear. Three: Do not ask about the picture. Do not talk about the picture.”
In a secluded mansion set in a wealthy San Francisco enclave, newly married designer Andy Little discovers that his husband may run much more than a venture fund. As Andy moves into his dream home, the euphoria of newlywed life turns into a chilling mystery as he discovers his husband’s peculiar art collection—which leads Andy on a terrifying journey toward the truth.
This limited edition fine press publication will be hand printed on a Victoria Parallel Platen Press on Arches Rives Lightweight Paper. The book will be hand bound at our bindery in materials that are elegant, tactile, and which reflect themes in the book, one of which is taxidermy. The typefaces are Fournier MT Pro and Mr. Darcy.
The 75 Limited Editions are bound with leopard print Lokta Paper and black book cloth with gold titling on the front and a silk bookmark with a heart-shaped padlock. The endsheets are black Hahnemühle Ingres.
The 25 Deluxe Editions have a more intricate binding structure intended to “imprison” the text-block while still allowing the book to be comfortably read. It includes a gold earring padlock that locks two leather straps together. The binding has a rounded, black calf spine and the cover has gold book cloth and Lokta leopard print paper.
The Standard Edition of this book integrates the card deck into the text so that the book and cards can easily be read together. It is printed on a professional photographic Epson printer with fine art Lettra paper and bound in a wood veneer paper from Hiromi Papers in L.A. The cover has a handprinted design by Sarah Wyman Whitman that spans both sides of the book's cover. The endsheets are Hahnemuhle Ingres paper from Germany.
The Limited Edition fine press book and deck of fifty-two cards features women whose writing about romance, love, or sexuality has been banned, censored, or challenged either in their lifetime or posthumously, in their homeland or abroad.
A Limited Edition, Letterpress Book: A handprinted and handbound 65 page book featuring a curated selection of banned works by women, spanning from 1007 to 2008. Discover authors whose stories have been deemed too provocative and too honest.
The book contains a tipped in, foldout letterpress printed copy of George Sand's Letter to her Critics, as well as a bibliography and chronological list of the authors and their books. The book is hand printed using a Vandercook Universal III printing press. The paper for the book is Rives Lightweight Book Paper from France. The book is hand sewn and bound in a wood veneer paper from Hiromi Papers in L.A. The cover has a handprinted design by Sarah Wyman Whitman that spans both sides of the book's cover. The endsheets are Hahnemuhle Ingres paper from Germany.
A Deck of 52 Illustrated Cards: Each 3x5 card features a quote from the author's work with an illustration that has been adapted from earlier illustrated editions of the work, or reflects the time period and spirit of the work.
The cards are letterpress printed on both sides in the Deluxe Edition. The back of the cards are printed on four colors of Hahnemuhle Ingres paper and feature four different illustrations by Sarah Wyman Whitman. These illustrations are adaptations of Wyman Whitman's book cover art. An illustration and quotation are featured on the front of each card, handprinted on the Legion Cotton Pearl White cardstock which has been adhered with archival quality adhesive to the Hahnemuhle Ingres colored paper on the backs. The cards are housed in a handmade box made of wood veneer from Hiromi Paper in L.A. and St Armand Mill colored paper with a silk tie.
Historical Context and Insight: The book includes a comprehensive bibliography, a chronological timeline of the featured authors, and a special, tipped-in letter from the author George Sand who wrote a defiant response to the critics challenging her work. This folded letter was handprinted on Arches BFK Rives paper from France and includes a small ornamental decoration by Sarah Wyman Whitman.
A Work of Interactive Fiction (IF) Translated from the Digital into a Handmade Book with the use of Paper Mechanics. Written by Liza Daly.
Based on the biography and writings of fin-de-siècle Spiritualist Sara Weiss (1834-1904), this limited edition, fine press book is a fictional reconstruction of the story behind Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903), a supposedly-truthful account of Weiss’s out-of-body visits to the third planet.
The real Sara Weiss overcame rural poverty and a coercive marriage to forge a second chance at love and a quiet middle-class home—until late in life, when she achieved an unexpected and quirky fame. Did Weiss, like many women of her generation, truly believe in spirits, mediumship, and life on Mars, or was her book an elaborate hoax?
In Daly’s re-imagining, the reader follows Sara Weiss—from the parlor seances of St. Louis, to the depths of a Nevada silver mine, to the clouds above the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition—in search of the author’s vision behind her strange and singular work.
Daly has written the manuscript for this limited-edition book as a work of Interactive Fiction (IF), a digital story with affordances to reveal the secrets beneath the text—secrets hidden even from Weiss herself. First Bite Press has collaborated with Daly to translate her work of IF into a hand-printed and bound book that uses paper engineering to evoke the mutability of digital text. The illustrations in the book are reproductions of Weiss’ own drawings of Martian plant life.
About the Author
Liza Daly is a creative coder and web-based storyteller. She founded the first real-time community for IF authors, served as vice-president of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, and has won numerous awards for hypertext fiction which she wrote or produced. Her major works include Harmonia (2017), Stone Harbor (2016), and a co-production of First Draft of the Revolution (2012) with story by Emily Short. Daly’s generative asemic writing piece Seraphs (2014) is featured in Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text, 1953–2023, published by MIT Press.
This limited edition book will be printed on Somerset paper and include a variety of fine art papers in the construction of its paper mechanics. Edition of 25 deluxe and 75 limited.
Babylon Songs is a collection of poetry written by Colleen S. Harris. The book presents the unsung voices of women, both real and mythical, from our present and past. The collection is divided into three sections: “A Prelude to Madness,” “These Inconvenient Women,” and “Perishable Truths.” Each section combines Harris’ lyrical poetry form of storytelling with relatable and reflective dialogue that feels like a personal exchange between the poetess and her reader.
Colleen S. Harris is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She holds and MFA in Writing, a PhD in Mythological Studies, and her Doctorate of Education (along with five other academic degrees). Harris currently serve as the Dean of the Sue & Radcliffe Killam Library at Texas A&M International University and is the author of four other poetry collections and three chapbooks. Among her poetry scholarship she co-edited Women Versed in Myth: Essays on Modern Women Poets (McFarland, 2016) and Women on Poetry; Writing, Revising, Publishing, and Teaching (McFarland, 2012).
The illustrations in the collection are linocuts by French artist, Sandie Levent. This edition is handprinted on a Victoria Parallel Platen Press and handbound as an exposed spine binding at First Bite Press bindery. The book is printed on Rives Lightweight and Hahnemuhle Ingres. The typefaces include Palatino Linotype and Adobe Garamond Pro.
A Chapbook Tale of “Erotic Education,” this is book #3 in the First Bite Press Chapbook Series.
Labeled as "an erotic education", this is the story of a young tailor who learns how to navigate the love of women through the sensual and wise teachings of four older women.
This 17 page short story is two-color letterpress printed on a Vandercook Universal III and hand sewn in lilac colored linen thread in the on-site bindery. The Story was taken from The Canon of Aphrodisia by Jef Delman and Miranda Culp and the two full page illustrations were drawn by Laurelin Gilmore.
The edition is limited to 100 copies. 50 of them will be available on this website and 50 addition will be offered on subscription on the Press’ Patreon site for those who would like to collect all the chapbooks in the series going forward.
Written by Miranda Culp with three full-page illustrations by Laurelin Gilmore, this chapbook contains the erotic retelling of the story of Cinderella that will surprise and delight the modern reader. The chapbook comes in two variations. Please let us know which variant you would prefer. The blue cover is a custom handmade paper by Shotwell Paper Mill in San Francisco. The interior is letterpress printed and the story is printed on the Vandercook Universal III on Rives BFK paper and sewn with a simple side stich. A colorful ribbon holds the blue chapbook closed and is attached with a wax seal from Artefex Wax with the First Bite Press mark.
Written by co-author of The Canon of Aphrodisia, this chapbook pairs naughty modern-day poetry with illustrations by Konstantin Somov from Le Livre de la Marquise, Recueil de Poésie & de Prose, published in 1918.
A handprinted ticket book of 12 perforated tickets suggesting a different romance genre for each month of the year with extra reading suggestions. Perfect for the romance reader or romance book club that enjoys reading across the genre to keep things interesting! Printed on the Vandercook Universal III on Arches Rives Lightweight in two colors. The covers are Hannemuhle Bugra with Cave paper on the spine.
