Women Without Men
by Shahrnush Parsipur
Sleeve design with Short Story by Anousha Payne 

Anousha Payne is a London based artist who’s often allegorical artwork allows us to cross a watery border with her. This limited edition sleeve features a watercolour inspired by Sharnush Parsipur’s collection of surreal short stories which focus on the lives of modern women with a mission in contemporary Iran - the book, once a best-seller has since been banned. Moral dillemas, a woman that roots herself as a tree, characters and creatures that forge a bridge between this world and the next with humour, imagination and bravery as forces for resistance! ‘Grandmother’, a short story by Anousha is printed here for the first time and we could not be more honoured to send these two artists together. Pre-order or find it in select bookshops.

Limited edition of 100.
Book with detachable sleeve.
Hand-numbered.

Language: English
Publisher: Feminist Press

︎ £30 ︎ Please send us an email.
March 11 2025


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Stages 
by Rachel Kaudernale-Buff
Sleeve and blurb by Rachel Meade Smith

“I first came across this perfect gem of a book when working on my own oral history project last year. I wanted to see how others have shared interviews on the page. Stages gave me a simple, earnest answer. It was also the perfect size, both literally and spiritually—fit perfectly in my hands, and expanded me each time I opened it...”

Co-inciding with an event at McNally Jackson Sendb00ks invited the two Rachels in a conversation about care-work, mending and motherhood. 

Limited edition of 100.
Hand-numbered.

Language: English
Publisher: Thick Press

︎ $35 ︎ Purchase via Thick Press or send an email to organise collection in Europe.
Aug 01 2024


Works and Days 
by Bernadette Mayer
With a sleeve by Gal Schindler

“So let’s send Mayer, her loose stream-of-consciousness poems invite us to paint the pages with our own everyday memories - she is the wise child, in love with pastoral vistas of nature, the banality of an overlooked day, what we eat and how we love - while simultaneously critiquing the capitalist world, failed love interests, and built up urban societies where ‘no back garden is ever over-rated’.”

Sleeve by Gal Schindler
Blurb and collage by Gemma Janes
Including a printed essay by Anne Carson
Design by Lea Guillion

Limited Edition cover of 100


Publisher: New Directions
Language: English

︎ £35 ︎ Out of Print

Sep 21 2023


The Hearing Trumpet
by Leonora Carrington
With a sleeve by Augusta Lardy Micheli

Sleeve by Augusta Lardy Micheli 
Postcard ‘Artist Emerging out of a Burnout’ by Augusta Lardy Micheli
Hand stitched book of drawings and writing by Augusta Lardy Micheli sewn with coptic stitching by Lea Guillon and Gemma Janes
Design by Lea Guillion

Limited Edition of 100.

Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English

︎ £35 ︎ Out of Print

Sep 21 2023


The Lover 
by Marguerite Duras
With a Sleeve by Marie Hazard
Featuring a poem by Lorraine de Thibault:

“Archaeology of desire, excavating
embraces each corner hides a tower
That rises infinite possibilities of
knowledge

tiny pieces, sand of you, each hollow
hides a sign that directs me
yet it is impossible to lose yourself

because infinity has an end
as the past has its time”

Limited edition 100 copies
Event at Left Bank Books 

Publisher: Penguin
Language: English

︎ £35 ︎ Out of Print
May 21 2022


Strange Pilgrims
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
With a Sleeve by Zora Sicher

A collection of short stories by Garbiel Garcia Marquez including Sleeping Beauty and the Aeroplane which is the short story that inspired Zora for this collage of Lua under a flight path. 

Limited edition 100 copies

Publisher: Penguin
Language: English

Out of Print
September 2021