o celebrate our favorite holiday, on April 1st of each year, the Press produces a keepsake for our friends and collectors. The images here show the cover and title page of each year's offering.

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2009-Literary Recipes
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Food Thoughts from Famous Writers
 
Chef Marc-Paul Gérard collects books of la cuisinier and he likes to expound upon them. He also tells us perhaps a little more about himself than he may suppose.

2008-B. Traven: An Interview with Himself
 
In just-released papers, the famously recondite author reveals what has only been guessed at by literary scholars—the uncloaking of the identity of B. Traven.

2007-On the Labeling of Paintings: A Guide for the Art School Impaired
 
This is a new museum experience that employs the philosophy that Art is for Everyman (and the label tells Everyman where to get the real dirt on the subject).

2006-My Private Library: Confessions of a Collector
 
The title says it all in a profession where, it seems, the ends do justify the means.

2005-Tayler’s ho, a Snaile! A Crye for Haelp
 
An exciting theory involving giant snails found on illuminated manuscripts given to a spellbound meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Folklore, in London.

2004-Gaillard Durfort: An Ordinary Frenchman’s Ride Up & Down History
 
A reminiscence of Gaillard Durfort who, as Gustave Eiffel’s private assistant, witnessed a meeting between Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and M. Eiffel in the latter’s apartment atop his famous tower.

2003-Shakespeare: Motions & the Man
 
Before the normally skeptical audience at the Interlude Conference of Shakespearean Scholars in Paris, Professor Henryk Moosekowski shows beyond a reasonable doubt that Shakespeare’s dramatic life began as a puppeteer.

2002-The Sadie L. Spincraft Discovery Award
 
From the League of American Librarians, we have the announcement of the Sadie L. Spincraft Discovery Award, read by the head curator of The Henry J. Kaiser Collection of Technical Motor Manuals at the Detroit Free Library.

2001-General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Golf Caddie
 
Correspondence from General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s golf caddie, a young lieutenant writing from Italy to his sister during World War II. This letter is held in the Eisenhower Presidential Library along with other censored material.

2000-A Letter to Isabelle Rimbaud
 
This love letter is to Arthur Rimbaud’s sister, Isabelle, from the dying man whose poetry style Rimbaud forged.

1999-The Spring Haiku of Tobu Sho
 
Haiku from the unbalanced mind of a minor Japanese poet and disgruntled neighbor of Matsuo Basho.