The Ladies Printing Bee: an Anthology of Thirty-Nine Letterpress Printers Addressing the Subject of Women's Work: compiled by Jules Remedios Faye with introduction by Sandra Kroupa

[Sedro-Woolley, Washington:: Street of Crocodiles Printery,, 1995.. Edition of 195. 6.25 x 8"; 253 unnumbered pages. Front and back matter set in Bodoni Book and printed by Jules Remedios Faye on a Vandercook 4 Proof Press. Type cast by Jim Rimmer at his Pie Tree Press & Type Foundry. Case bound in Japanese cloth over boards. Black pastedowns and endpapers. Some prints signed by the artists. Jules Remedios Faye, Preface: "I sent out an invitation which offered to document present printing history by publishing a sampler of women's work in the relief printing, private press and book arts fields. … Not only was I interested in collecting the work of this disparate group, I also wanted to investigate why they became printers, why they chose letterpress. "The order in which the signatures in this book are placed is entirely a subjective arrangement based on a visual sense of harmony rather than groupings based on thematic content, or arranged alphabetically, for example. In no way does the order or position of a signature make any comment on the merit of the work. Finally, keep in mind that this sampler represents only a fraction of what lady printers are producing worldwide."Contents: Preface / Jules Remedios Faye; Women's work : women in the book arts, past, present & future / Sandra Kroupa; Women's work / Colleen Shannon (Press of Appletree Alley); poem by Lucy Larcom; Hands all around / Sally Green (Brooding Heron Press & Bindery); Threshold / Sheila Coppola; poem by Sara Lisa Bingham; Dear Berit / Elsi Vassdal Ellis (Eve Press); Pie talk / Lisa Baudoin (Rollingpin Press), Kathy Kuehn (Salient Seedling Press); The mothertongue / Jocelyn Dohm (Sherwood Press); poem by Charle Saether; prose by Mary Milbank Brown; To marble the edges of books or paper / Claire Bolton (Alembic Press); Bookmarks / Valerie Frey (Knickerbocker Press); Handiwork / Janice Frey (Magpie Press); Ever since Dinah / Carol Stonebhurner, Felicia Rice (Moving Parts Press); One-day portrait of an alphabet junkie / Jenny Sapora (Blue Juniper Press); Love / Elizabeth Serjeant (Possibility Press); poem by Riemke EnsingFortune teller, masthead, circus act / Rebecca Blissell (Rolling Bones Letterpress); Keeping score / Tina Hoggatt; Los perdidos: from the cab journal / Catherine Michaelis (May Day Press); prose by Marie-Elise Wheatwind; On the role of the needle in women's work / Bonnie P. O'Connell (Penumbra Press); Onion / Alisa Golden (Never mind the press); Agatha, saint / Bridget O'Malley (Honmai Press); La Fiesta brava / Jules Remedios Faye (Street of Crocodiles Printery); Work of the heart and soul / Barbara Robertson; Estate sale / Pamela Rups (Moveable Feast Press); O, reconciliation / Dawn Plourd (Sammer b Press); Woman's work / Madelyn Garrett (Sub Rosa Press); Affectionately yours / Dorothea Black (Scrabbletown Press); The sum / Barbara Dolliver (Wentletrap Press); Women work / Martha Miller (Cliffonian Press); Summer 1959 / Bonnie Thompson Norman (Windowpane Press); poem by Paige Nelson; The annual women's Teanaway art weekend / Marilyn Crosetto (Waterland Press); Paper dolls / Mare Blocker (M Kimberly Press); Ex libris / Judith Haswell (Donek Press); Spell for resurrection / Rusty North (Sagittarius Press); I love printing bees / Marie Dern (Jungle Garden Press); Woman as uroboros / Kris Caldwell; A woman's work is never done / Marylee Bytheriver (Lunation Press); The wife of Bath's prologue / Anne Bingham (Hurdy-Gurdy Press); Our house (actual size) / Karen Wesler; Night flight / Carol J. Blinn (Warwick Press); Index.