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David R. Godine, Publisher's founder and namesake tells the story behind the 200 books he loved the most over the past 50 years. This a personal, opinionated, and passionate story of an independent publisher who survived all challenges and whose history spans the reign of hot metal type to the present digital era.

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Praise for David R. Godine, Publisher David Godine is a remarkable publisher.... He is determined to prove that the day of elegant books has not vanished. And he does prove it. Elegantly. - The New York Times Godine books are not 'beautiful' in the glossy fashion of the coffee-table books that flood the market at Christmastime. They are instead flawlessly produced examples of the arts of printing and bookbinding, exquisitely understated. - Newsweek David Godine may be a small publisher, but the books he issues are timeless in quality and feature the highest standards of production. He maintains a list of titles which continuously appeal to discriminating readers. Long live Godine Press! - Bob Contant, former owner of St. Mark's Bookshop

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David R. Godine was born in Cambridge and educated at The Roxbury Latin School, Dartmouth College, and Harvard University. After a brief stint in the Army, he worked for year as a printing apprentice to Harold McGrath at Leonard Baskin’s Gehenna Press in Northampton. In 1970, along with co-founders Lance Hidy and Martha Rockwell, he converted an abandoned cow barn on a Brookline estate into a printing office from which the company began issuing broadsides, pamphlets, and, ultimately, books, mostly printed from hot metal. By 1975, both the barn and the ambition to make a living as letterpress printers were abandoned in favor of publishing. The company moved to offices in Boston’s Back Bay and subsequently to other locations in the area, remaining a part of the city’s publishing fabric until this day.

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