Chester River Press is pleased to announce that our letterpress limited edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness has been named the 2010 recipient of the Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design. The book's designers and printers, James Dissette and Chad Pastotnik, will receive the award at a ceremony in February. The award is presented by the Friends of the University Library of the University of Texas at El Paso, and is the most prestigious award of its kind.
Well deserved congratulations to Jim and Chad for a superb labor of love and art. The books were printed at Chad's Deep Wood Press and bound at Bessenberg Bindery, both in Michigan. Our partnership with Chad on this project was truly extraordinary. For information on this fine edition of Conrad visit our website.
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It should be noted that our book, Heart of Darkness, would not exist without Gerry Cataldo's rediscovery of Conrad's masterpiece. He called me one day and asked "When was the last time you read Heart of Darkness?” 30 years at least. But I remembered enough of it to sense that we were on to something.
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