“La vie est vaine. Un peu d’amour, Un peu de haine, Et puis bonjour.
La vie est brève. Un peu d’espoir, Un peu de rêve, Et puis bonsoir.”
― Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile
Thornwillow Press, with the blessing of Agatha Christie’s family and estate, published the first ever fine press edition of one of her most iconic works – Death on the Nile.
A limited selection is in our inventory in a variety of bindings from paper to half-leather to the Felucca full-leather. If you’re not dying to have one of these in your library, well, something just isn’t right….
Did you know we released F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel, The Great Gatsby in a limited edition, letterpress, hand-bound volume? Of course you did. A small quantity of these editions remain tragically unsold.
Our intrepid publisher, Luke Pontifell, can be seen here inspecting the work prior to binding and wondering why, oh why, is this masterpiece not gracing your study?
Wildfires. Global Warming. Racial Violence. Drug Addiction. Desperation. The dystopian future Butler imagined is sadly ringing ever truer to life as we know it—and is an ever more visceral warning for what our future will hold if we are not mindful.
Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler’s iconic view of a future that is all too familiar today, printed letterpress and hand-bound… because we need nice things that will outlast us and impress the great-grandchildren living in the cloud cities.
