Catalogue
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In the Forest of Forgetting
Purchase from Circle Six Available in epub and mobi editions, £4.00 The long-awaited digital edition of In the Forest of Forgetting, a collection of sixteen short stories by the impeccable Theodora Goss, who has been a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the [...]
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Journeying
Journeying: a short poem by Adrienne J. Odasso, who knows what a journey is, lavishly illustrated by Paige C. Zaferiou. This title is out of print. At first glance, it reads like a simple poem, and looks like a simple book… A blue, embroidered paper cover, a ribbon to keep [...]
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The Honey Month
This edition is out of print. 28 days there are in the month of February, a cold month in our part of the world, a month in which the summer seems an endless dream one had once, long ago. We should not be tricked by the frost, for it was [...]
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The Gambler
Collaborative work including Sonya Taaffe’s poem The Gambler. Coffee-stained paper, bark, bone. 2008. This piece is now in a private collection.
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Carne Vale
Collaborative work including Sonya Taaffe’s poem, Carne Vale. Coffee-stained frame encloses a book cover overlaying a collage of binder’s materials. The spine has been replaced with bone and coffee-stained pages are bound to it with sinew. 2008. This piece is in the permanent, working collection of the Minnesota Center for [...]
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Body of the Book
Body of the Book uses bone, bark and coffee-stained paper to represent pages, spine and cover. The book is housed in a glass-fronted shadowbox collaged with tea-stained paper, and contains all of the memories we can no longer access. This piece was created in 2009 and is now in a [...]
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The Girl with Two Skins
The Girl with Two Skins, by Catherynne M. Valente, was one of the four pieces I created for the Magick 4 Terri auction held to benefit Terri Windling in late 2011. Inside is Catherynne’s poem of the same name. The piece is made of the rib of a fox, dried [...]
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The Grand Finale of Mr. Fox
The Grand Finale of Mr. Fox, by C.S.E. Cooney, was one of the four pieces I created for the Magick 4 Terri auction held to benefit Terri Windling in late 2011. Inside is Claire’s poem of the same name. The piece is made of the rib of a fox, dried [...]
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The Maiden to the Fox Did Say
The Maiden to the Fox Did Say, by Amal El-Mohtar and Nicole Kornher-Stace, was one of the four pieces I created for the Magick 4 Terri auction held to benefit Terri Windling in late 2011. Inside is Amal’s and Nicole’s poem of the same name. The piece is made of [...]
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The Tall House of Mr. Fox
The Tall House of Mr. Fox by Caitlyn Paxson was one of the four pieces I created for the Magick 4 Terri auction held to benefit Terri Windling in late 2011. Inside is Caitlyn’s poem of the same name. The piece is made of the rib of a fox, dried [...]
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The Glastonbury Tarot
First released by Gothic Image Publishers in Europe and by Weiser in the US and Canada in 1999, this book was long out of print until Papaveria released this new edition in 2012. The Glastonbury Tarot is a blending of philosophical traditions that take the reader through the Pagan, Christian [...]
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Cinderella Jump Rope Rhymes
Cinderella Jump Rope Rhymes shows you what a childhood pastime looks like when you dial macabre up to eleven. If playground fun got married to the genetically engineered child of Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman, their offspring would be Cinderella Jump Rope Rhymes. With contributions from Francesca Forrest, Sonya Taaffe, [...]
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How to Flirt in Faerieland & Other Wild Rhymes
Do you know how to flirt in Faerieland? C.S.E. Cooney does. In this collection of seventeen poems — four never before published — you’ll find goblins, crones, robber brides, coyotes, and even a sea king. Cooney draws from folklore and myth to create something entirely her own, something glimpsed only [...]
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A Mayse-Bikhl
This collection of Jewish-themed poems of the fantastic by Sonya Taaffe brings together twenty poems written and published over the course of ten years. They first appeared in such venues as Goblin Fruit, Mythic Delirium, Stone Telling, Not One Of Us, Dreams & Nightmares and more, and “Domovoi, I Came [...]
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Shiny Thing
Shiny Thing blurs the lines between fantasy, horror and science fiction. The stories inside are suffused with magic and danger, and will sometimes chill you to the bone. With a delicate touch Patricia Russo reveals humanity in all of its foibles and glorious moments, in settings that range from the [...]
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Songs for the Devil and Death
A primal collection of verse from the master of language, Hal Duncan, Songs for the Devil and Death touches the very heart of what it is to be human in this most inhuman world. Here is deep grief. Here is red rage. Here is the genesis of pain, and an [...]
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Stone Telling
Stone Telling is an online magazine of boundary-crossing poetry edited by Rose Lemberg, who named the quarterly after the main character in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home. When Rose approached me about binding the first issue of Stone Telling as a gift for le Guin, I knew I [...]
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Jack o’ the Hills
Available in print, audiobook, epub and mobi editions. Purchase from Circle Six. Jack Yap once had his mouth sewn shut for talking too much. His brother Pudding has to wear stone shoes or he’ll just wander off. Will little obstacles like these keep the boys out of trouble? Not for [...]
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The Winter Triptych
The Winter Triptych is a story plucked from a tapestry’s thread. In one panel Liese is a scullery maid working in Queenskeep, where tragedy and treason have ruled for one hundred years. In the night, she chases ghosts up a winding stair. There, in another, Isele is a traitor’s hope, [...]
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Two Coins
Two Coins is a short story about words, rivers and coins and girls left behind. It is a story you’ll carry with you long after the words are gone. Saturated with the blues of water and sky, sewn with black thread, this book is a miniature by European standards. The [...]
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The Lucifer Cantos
Hal Duncan returns to Papaveria with another ferocious cantos, a handbound, limited and numbered edition in faux leather with red endbands, bloodred endpapers, sewn with black thread and printed on crisp, white paper. A miniature playing card has been set into the cover, framed with paper-covered board. The book measures [...]
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The Honey Month
Purchase from Circle Six. 28 days there are in the month of February, a cold month in our part of the world, a month in which the summer seems an endless dream one had once, long ago. We should not be tricked by the frost, for it was during the [...]
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Jabberwocky
By special commission, a one-off copy of the poem Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. This book contains illustrations from the original Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There published in 1872. I chose the cloth because it reminds me of an England obsessed with Orientalism, as it was in Carroll’s [...]
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Chanteys for the Fisherangels
In Chanteys for the Fisherangels four poets give voice to the inspiration found in Lal Waterson’s song “Midnight Feast” and in turn, inspire me. J.C. Runolfson gives us The sky is the floor of an ocean, followed by Sonya Taaffe’s The Coast Guard. Then comes in Francesca Forrest with Invitation [...]
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The Glamour Down Two Path Roads
Here lies snytactic mystery from strange and alien tongues, unstuck and bound to the land where “Once upon a time” wedges itself in the treated-pine cracks in the doorstep of a drunkard’s single-wide trailer, and holy blood and holy roods are nothing more than cheap wine and scarecrow staves out [...]
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Berry Moon, Bound
Berry Moon, Bound was created for the Interstitial Arts Foundation. Berry Moon was written by Camilla Bruce and is one of the stories found in Interfictions 2. Handmade Lokta paper, glass beads, faux berries, cotton thread and silver foil make up the cover along with a spine of black cloth. [...]
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The Sophia Leaves Text Messages
What would the Sophia say if she sent out texts? This handbound book of 15 one-sided pages was printed on archival, satin paper, library bound with a hard spine and silver and black endpapers. Black cloth and decorative, silver and antique laid paper adorn the cover. The book has been [...]
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Loving the Dead
Loving the Dead: Excerpts from a Necromancer’s Memoir, a true account of the author’s dealings with the ghosts of the human dead. This is a limited, handbound edition of 13 copies, of which number 13 was burned for the dead. This title is sold out. Bound in Lokta and coffee-stained [...]
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Postscripts from the Red Sea
Papaveria is pleased to present Sonya Taaffe’s poem Postscripts from the Red Sea in a limited edition of 12 numbered copies. The work first appeared in the July 2007 issue of Goblin Fruit, but as with all of Sonya’s work, Postscripts lent itself exceptionally well to the formation of a [...]
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The Time Traveler’s Son
Here is the story of a boy become man, whose father understood time. A limited edition of 12 numbered copies. This handbound book of 32 pages was printed on archival, satin paper, library bound with a hard spine and gold endpapers. Clockworks and coffee-stained Chinese newspaper decorate the cloth cover. [...]
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Memory Book
Memory Book is a blank book that fits inside its own matchbox, where you can carry it with you to record those random thoughts or ideas that should not be forgotten. This tiny book is library-bound for durability, is covered in gold paper with gold endpapers and a red, cloth [...]
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Godfather Death
Old Death is a bitter man, you see. He likes to toy with distance, with forgetting. He lets the lead wind out before he jerks and snaps you like a brittle willow twig. He loves as deep and fierce as God, my lamb, but only with God’s vengeance. Handbound, limited [...]
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Village of One Thousand Cranes
There is a Japanese legend that says whoever folds a thousand cranes will be granted a wish. Papaveria Press presents a moving and perhaps timely short story by Danny Adams, called Village of One Thousand Cranes. It is the tale of a young Japanese-American girl who, while living in an [...]
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The Quest of the Queen’s Tears
If you are not familiar with the work of Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, better known as Lord Dunsany, you should be. This very limited edition reprint of his short story The Quest of the Queen’s Tears is my tribute to the man and to the joy his work has [...]
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Sonnets for Orpheus
Hal Duncan, author of Vellum: The Book of All Hours, offers a collection of 12 scabrous sonnets for Orpheus in this handbound, limited and numbered edition of 26 copies The book is bound all around in black fabric with a black and gold Greek key pattern on the spine. On [...]
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Genesis
Part creation myth, part fable about the power of belief, Genesis by Joel Fried gives voice to one of the founding principles of Papaveria itself. Such a seemingly simple thing is belief—we either have it or we don’t, and usually whether we have it or not depends on factors so [...]
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The Descent of Inanna
Her foot is pointed like a dancer’s, laces inward, indicating darkness. The bend in her knee is not quite classical— the bone protrudes, white-blind, and her calf is mapped: scar, welt, sun. It hesitates, ostrich-elongate, and the ribbon knotted at the perfumed hollow of her ankle flutters. The wind out [...]
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Ghosts of Gunkanjima
Gunkanjima, or Battleship Island, is a tiny island in Nagasaki Prefecture on which coal was discovered in 1810. A boom followed, and the island was heavily populated and owned from seabed to rooftop by the Mitsubishi Corporation. At one point it was the single most densely populated area on the [...]
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The Room
A poetic testament to friendship by a friend who was left behind. The title has been printed on sheer, gold paper and gold thread has been used to sew the signatures together. The text is printed on linen paper. This title is out of print. Veronica Schanoes is from New [...]
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The Frog Wife
I was commissioned to create a one-off miniature of an author’s poem to their beloved. This was the first binding and the only one that I managed to photograph. The author decided that this cover was not quite suitable, so I made another. This book is perfect bound with a [...]
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Vertebrate Dreams
The images and text contained in Vertebrate Dreams are a result of what the bones have told me. This very limited and miniature edition of 9 hand bound copies contained partial reproductions of a selection of my bone panels with accompanying text. The spine is made of bone and sandalwood [...]
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Perennial Love
Aria Nadii’s amber glazes are thick with the resonance of a living tradition as they capture the essence of its ancient origins in their layers. The descriptive text, written by C.P. McDill, sheds light on the technical creation of the paintings while hinting at possible interpretations of the images contained [...]
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