Category Archives: Fine Press Book Reviews

Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell; Published by the Limited Editions Club

Posted on May 21, 2013 by J. Davis

The Whole Book Experience is all about how a particular book might affect me as I read it. Of course the experience is literary. And with the fine and private press books I concentrate on for this blog, it is … Continue reading →

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A Flame in the Heart; Published by Littoral Press

Posted on March 10, 2013 by J. Davis

On the first page of A Flame in the Heart: a love/hate anthology we learn that it “is dedicated to those we love with a blazing passion, to those we hope will burn in hell, and ideally, to the future … Continue reading →

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The Chimes, a Goblin Drama in Four Quarters, by Charles Dickens et al.; Published by The Barbarian Press

Posted on December 20, 2012 by J. Davis

Ah, Christmas! What would it be without a little Dickens. I was all set to read the Cricket on the Hearth, which I have never read, when I realized that I still had the Barbarian Press stage adaptation of The … Continue reading →

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The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins; Published by The Arion Press

Posted on December 3, 2012 by J. Davis

Wilkie Collins is a well know Victorian era British writer of 30 novels, over 60 short stories, 14 plays, as well as a number of non-fiction articles and other pieces. How much of this enormous output have I read? None. … Continue reading →

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Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust; The Limited Editions Club

Posted on September 30, 2012 by J. Davis

How to start about a novel like Swann’s Way? How to articulate the feeling of reading Proust? That’s a touch challenge for me even on a second reading. It is definitely easier to dwell on the physical book itself, in … Continue reading →

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Cetus, The Whale; published by The Melville Press

Posted on February 21, 2012 by J. Davis

  I recently found The Melville Press through a review of one of their books that appeared in the excellent Books and Vines fine press blog. The review was for the more recent Dylan Thomas story In the Direction of … Continue reading →

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How Words See; published by Occasional Works

Posted on February 11, 2012 by J. Davis

This book just leapt off the shelf at me when I was browsing at Wessel & Lieberman’s in Pioneer Square, Seattle. It’s an elegantly designed book of poetry about art. How Words See, or maybe how seeing turns into words … Continue reading →

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Tennessee; published by David Bruce Smith Publications

Posted on January 21, 2012 by J. Davis

I remember reading The Glass Menagerie in high school. At what point in high school, and whether it made an impression on me, I don’t recall. But I don’t think I ever read anything else by him before being given … Continue reading →

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The Wolf’s Carol by N. R. Jackson; Published by the Barbarian Press

Posted on December 24, 2011 by J. Davis

The Wolf’s Carol is a delightful allegory written and illustrated by Nancy Ruth Jackson and published by the Barbarian Press in 2006. I was hoping to get this done a little earlier in the holiday season but maybe it is … Continue reading →

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The Folio Society Wind in the Willows

Posted on October 18, 2011 by J. Davis

I’m not sure how many times I read The Wind in the Willows as a kid but I’m certain that my childhood reading contributes to the whole book experience that is the Folio Society’s edition of this classic. It’s entirely … Continue reading →

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