29 June 2005
Gaspereau Press Wins CBA Award

At its awards gala on 26 June 2005, the Canadian Booksellers Association (CBA) announced the winners of the 2005 Libris Awards. Gaspereau Press was named the Small Press Publisher of the Year. Fellow nominees in this category were Cormorant Books and The Porcupine’s Quill. Gaspereau Press was also nominated for Book Design of the Year, for Thomas Wharton’s The Logogryph. This award went to Jessica Sullivan, the designer of Tree: A Life Story, published by Greystone Books. The association gave awards in twelve other categories for achievements in publishing, editing, bookselling, distribution and marketing, as well as lifetime achievement.

The annual Libris Awards were created to recognize and celebrate the achievements of all those who create, promote and deliver great books to Canadian readers: the authors, editors, publishers, distributors, sales representatives and booksellers. For more information about the awards and this year’s winners, please visit www.cbabook.org.

BACKGROUND
Gaspereau Press is a literary publisher and printer based in Kentville, Nova Scotia. The press is committed to literature and the book arts, incorporating a range of modern and antique forms of printing and binding to create books that are distinctive in manufacture and design. Its publications have won numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Atlantic Poetry Award, the Dartmouth Book Award, the Alberta Book Award for short fiction and the Alcuin Award for excellence in book design.

The Logogryph: A Bibliography of Imaginary Books is Thomas Wharton’s third work of fiction. It begins in a small town in the mountains when a young boy is given a suitcase filled with battered old books. This opens a lifelong pursuit of the elusive creature known as the logogryph. Describing imaginary books and alternate realities, Wharton explores the mysterious alchemy called reading.

This book was typeset and designed by Andrew Steeves at Gaspereau Press. It is a Smyth-sewn paperback with a jacket and full sleeve. The text was typeset in Caslon types and printed on Rolland’s Zephyr laid paper. The jacket was printed letterpress. The inside features illustrations by Wesley Bates.

For more information contact
Beth Crosby at Gaspereau Press
47 Church Avenue, Kentville, NS, B4N 2M7
902-678-6002, info@gaspereau.com