This morning I braved the chill in a T-shirt (my nipples are now like drill bits) to fetch a couple boxes of “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” from the Lost Art Press warehouse garden shed.
The shed, which was filled to the rafters in September, is now all-but empty. We are almost out of “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest,” but I’m not stressed.
Next week a new shipment of the book arrives. The third printing will have an index from Suzanne Ellison, a few typographical corrections and some editorial tweaks that aren’t worth mentioning. But the biggest change will be the cover. The third printing will have a charcoal gray cover with lettering and image debossed in white.
We made this change because we wanted to differentiate between the pre-index and post-index printings. Plus, I’m an endless fiddler.
Still, it’s a bit sad to burn through the last few boxes of the beige books – I think it’s a good-looking cover.
If you are waiting to purchase a copy with the index bound in, I’ll post a notice when we start shipping the gray book – it should be next Friday or so.
In other Lost Art Press news: The design work on “Make a Joint Stool from a Tree” by Jennie Alexander and Peter Follansbee is in full swing. That book will go to the printer before the end of the year and be on sale in January.
Matt Bickford’s “Mouldings in Practice” is about to head into design. An outside editor is finishing his tweaks to Matt’s verbiage and we are now converting the hundreds – yes, hundreds – of drawings to a publishable format.
And on the first Roubo volume: There have been a couple delays because of a personal issue with a member of the team – not Don Williams, by the way. Lots of work is being done, but I don’t have any dates to report at this stage. I am as eager as you to read this.
There is lots more to report, but I’ve got to get to the Post Office with this morning’s load of orders.
— Christopher Schwarz
I’d have called it harvest gold.
Is it time to send our ‘are you going to stock’ emails to Lee Valley customer service?
Yes, harvest gold or wheat. Beige is for old lady orthopedic shoes.
More opportunity to give you my money. Huzzah, capitalism.
The beige/wheat/harvest gold has a classic look. Enjoying it very much. Just wish I read faster.
Brad point drill bits?
It wasn’t even that cold today. What happens to your nipples when it’s REALLY cold?
-Steve
Please do not answer Steve’s question.
Man…the things you can write that I simply cannot.
Megan, it could have been worse. He didn’t scamper out there in gym shorts, as far as we know.
And when are you going to publish Adam Cherubini – at an appropriate length – on 18th century techniques?
Adam is working on a book. When it is done we will publish it if he chooses us as his publisher. He has a challenging job and a young family, so I imagine his time to devote to a book is limited.
One of the things that I couldn’t have anticipated about parenthood, Volume XVI, Chapter 48, Verse 7:
As soon as I read the title of this post I began singing “Bye-bye, Binky, Binky bye-bye.”. I will never forgive Gordon, Elmo, and Baby Bear for that song.
Also, if sung in a duck blind more than an hour before sunrise, there is a reasonable chance that your hunting buddies will stab a hole in your waders.
And I thought that color was maize. But then I’m in Ann Arbor where everything is maize & blue.
Wonderful! I use and need an index. It’s fundamental to the way I use a reference book looking up for a detail or passage I forgot. It bothered me very much that the ATC’s first edition did not have one as I consulted the book over and over. I downloaded the index in pdf as soon as it was available. Please include an index in future books published by Lost Art Press. Thanks!