Small Press: An Annotated Guide

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"Small Press" is an annotated guide to sources for the study of the literary small press, focusing on small press publishing since 1960 when the "Mimeo Revolution" occurred, allowing small presses in the United States to flourish in unprecedented numbers. The guide provides a selected enumeration of sources from 1960 to 1990 about the small press phenomenon, its constituent small presses and little magazines, and its cultural and commercial significance. The volume first examines sources of current information, such as directories, indexes, guides and trade journals. It then reviews sources on the cultural and business activities of the small press. Essentially, it provides the beginnings of a base of core secondary materials essential to librarians, scholars, book collectors and anyone working in the field of the small press.

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. . . Small Press provides a selective enumeration of sources published in the United States from 1960 to 1992 for the study of the literary small press. A fascinating history of the development of the literary small press can be found in the extensive descriptive and evaluative annotations that accompany each item cited in the guide.-The Library Quarterly
Covering sources for the study of the literary small press since 1960, this bibliography lists 173 sources divided into three major sections: current information, core sources, and supplementary sources. The current information sources include directories, indexes, guides, and trade journals; the core sources address major issues that provide the historical, social, and commercial context within which the small press exists; and the supplementary sources category cites exemplary catalogs, lists, and bibliographies. Overall, Glazier has compiled an invaluable resource for the researcher in the field of small press, containing informed and insightful annotations on well-chosen materials. Recommended for all libraries with an interest in the small presses.-Library Journal
Small Press is the essential guide to contemporary literary small presses and little magazines.-Literary Research Guide 4th Edition 2002
We sat down and read this eminently readable reference book with growing amazement and delight. Short though his time-frame is, it covers the high water of the postwar avant-garde literary world, and all the big shots and lots of little shooters are in it too. Any library or librarian with the slightest interest in the small press will have to rush out and get this book. Glazier's Small press is Sipapu's Reference Book of the Year.-Sipapu
." . . Small Press provides a selective enumeration of sources published in the United States from 1960 to 1992 for the study of the literary small press. A fascinating history of the development of the literary small press can be found in the extensive descriptive and evaluative annotations that accompany each item cited in the guide."-The Library Quarterly
"Small Press is the essential guide to contemporary literary small presses and little magazines."-Literary Research Guide 4th Edition 2002
"We sat down and read this eminently readable reference book with growing amazement and delight. Short though his time-frame is, it covers the high water of the postwar avant-garde literary world, and all the big shots and lots of little shooters are in it too. Any library or librarian with the slightest interest in the small press will have to rush out and get this book. Glazier's Small press is Sipapu's Reference Book of the Year."-Sipapu
"Covering sources for the study of the literary small press since 1960, this bibliography lists 173 sources divided into three major sections: current information, core sources, and supplementary sources. The current information sources include directories, indexes, guides, and trade journals; the core sources address major issues that provide the historical, social, and commercial context within which the small press exists; and the supplementary sources category cites exemplary catalogs, lists, and bibliographies. Overall, Glazier has compiled an invaluable resource for the researcher in the field of small press, containing informed and insightful annotations on well-chosen materials. Recommended for all libraries with an interest in the small presses."-Library Journal

Author Bio

LOSS PEQUNO GLAZIER is an English and American Literature Subject Specialist at the Lockwood Memorial Library, SUNY-Buffalo. He is the author of numerous articles as well as four earlier small press books.