Papaveria Press is an independent British publishing house based in

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, West Yorkshire. It specializes in special, limited handbound editions and paperbacks in the fields of

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and poetry.

History

Papaveria Press was founded by American writer and artist Erzebet YellowBoy Carr in

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, US) in 2001 before transferring to

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, United Kingdom). Papaveria Press publishes handbound, non-

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limited editions of

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and not

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and poems and paperbacks, also in electronic format. Papaveria's catalogue also mentions some

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releases made on order. Founder and owner Erzebet YellowBoy Carr personally binds all the special editions released by Papaveria, with the aim to make each book a work of art not only for its contents but also in its appearance. She defines books as "small gods". Papaveria donated all the proceeds from their sales to

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in the wake of the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. Between 2010 and 2011 it became an

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of Circle Six alongside Hadean Press (also founded by Erzebet YellowBoy Carr alongside her husband Dis) and the newly founded Alchemy Press in order to make the handling of the financial side smoother.

Titles

* ''Perennial Love'' by Aria Nadii (paintings) & C.P. McDill (text) (handbound, limited edition of 20 copies) * ''Vertebrate Dreams'' by Erzebet YellowBoy (handbound, limited edition of 9 copies) * ''The Frog Wife'' by

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(one-off) * ''The Room'' by Veronica Schanoes (handbound, limited edition of 12 copies) * ''Ghosts of Gunkanjima'' by Catherynne M. Valente (handbound, limited edition of 24 copies) * ''The Descent of Inanna'' by Catherynne M. Valente (handbound, limited edition of 50 copies) * ''Genesis'' by Joel Fried (handbound, limited edition of 22 copies) * ''Sonnets for Orpheus'' by

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(handbound, limited edition of 26 copies) * ''The Quest of the Queen's Tears'' by

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(handbound, limited edition of 6 copies) * ''Village of One Thousand Cranes'' by Danny Adams (handbound, limited edition of 33 copies) * ''Godfather Death'' by JoSelle Vanderhooft (illustrations by Marge Simon) (handbound, limited edition of 13 copies) * ''The Time Traveler's Son'' by Jason Erik Lundberg (handbound, limited edition of 12 copies) * ''Postscripts from the Red Sea'' by

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(handbound, limited edition of 12 copies) * ''Loving the Dead (Excerpts from a Necromancer's Memory)'' by Erzebet YellowBoy (handbound, limited edition of 13 copies one of which was burned) * ''The Sophia Leaves Text Messages'' by Sara Amis (handbound, limited edition of 18 copies) * ''Berry Moon, Bound'' by Camilla Bruce (one-off) * ''The Glamour Down Two Path Roads'' by Berrien C. Henderson (handbound, limited edition of 18 copies) * ''Chanteys for the Fisherangels'' by

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, J.C. Runolfson, Sonia Taaffe, Francesca Forrest, Erik Amundsen (handbound, limited edition of 33 copies) * ''

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'' by

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(one-off) * ''The Honey Month'' by

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(paperback, ; contains the

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-winning poem "Peach-Creamed Honey") * ''The Lucifer Cantos'' by Hal Duncan (handbound, limited edition of 26 copies) * ''Two Coins'' by Alex Dally MacFarlane (handbound, limited edition of 18 copies) * ''The Winter Triptych'' by Nicole Kohrner-Stace (paperback, ;

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partially

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to Doctors Without Borders) * ''Jack o' the Hills'' by C.S.E. Cooney (paperback, ) * ''Stone Telling'' edited by Rose Lemberg (one-off) * ''

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'' by Hal Duncan (paperback, ) * ''Shiny Thing'' by Patricia Russo (paperback, announced)

References

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