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— Second printing (with seventeen minor amendments and a photo insert): Andy de Fiets: Letter to Robin Kinross

— We have a stand at Art Basel from 16–20 June 2010

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Now available
Silk Handkerchiefs by Paul Haworth
Andy de Fiets: Letter to Robin Kinross by Paul Haworth & Sam de Groot
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Little Titans by Nescio
And yet, and yet... by Nescio

In active preparation
Alone, Desperate and Going Nowhere by Paul Haworth



Silk Handkerchiefs
Paul Haworth


Silk Handkerchiefs is the first in a trilogy of short comedy novels by writer and painter Paul Haworth.

Wank to Jeremy Kyle, postie wink, suicidal, hit on woman old enough to be my mother, like a lubricious satyr, nigh-on assaulted by a male admirer, lying in a pool of urine...shit like this, it never used to happen to me, I swear. Now it were the story of my life.

Narrator Alex ‘Abs’ Brenchley is unafraid to tell, show and give all. Alongside episodes about his youth at Westminster School, sexcapades in St James’s Park and Victoria Station, and life as one of the art world’s so-called Nutty Solitary Men, Silk Handkerchiefs weaves its story of one fateful day in the life of Alex Brenchley...a day of tragedy, violence and the promise of LOVE.

The character and story of Silk Handkerchiefs have been developed through radio shows, YouTube videos and short stories written by Haworth since 2003. A performance of Silk Handkerchiefs took place at the Barbican Art Gallery in London in July 2008, as part of The House of Viktor & Rolf. Alex Brenchley’s misadventures will be continued in two sequels.

The narration richly fuses Cockney, hip-hop slang and verbose Dickensian English. The book offers a delirious account of 21st-century anxiety at its most extreme and hysterical and captures the London of 2007 as if it was only yesterday.

Silk Handkerchiefs – hilarious, ridiculous, true!



Published September 2009
180 × 110 mm, 96 pages + cover, printed offset in black and red, sewn and glued
ISBN 978-94-90006-02-0
Trade distribution by and Motto

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Pro qm (Almstadtstraße 48–50, Berlin, Germany)
Mzin (Paul-Gruner-Straße 64, Leipzig, Germany)
Boys Boys Boys (Neuer Kamp 19, Hamburg, Germany)
Donlon Books (210-3 Cambridge Heath Road + 77 Broadway Market, London E2/E8, UK)
Koenig Books at Charing Cross (80 Charing Cross Road, London WC2, UK)
Koenig Books at Serpentine Gallery (Kensington Gardens, London W2, UK)
ICA (The Mall, London SW1Y, UK)
Owl Cave
John Sandoe (10 Blacklands Terrace, London SW3, UK)
Section 7 Books (65 Rue Rébeval, Paris, France)
Motto Zürich (Langstraße 84, Zürich, Switzerland)
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Salon für Kunstbuch (Mondscheingasse 11, Vienna, Austria)
Spoonbill & Sugartown (218 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA)
Printed Matter (195 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY, USA)
The Books (43 Gamgodang-gil, Seoul, South Korea)
split/fountain (452 Karanghape Road, Auckland, New Zealand)

Paul reveals all his secrets in Time Out Amsterdam

Check the Apr/May 2010 issue of Metropolis M for ‘The Vestigial Emotion’ by Paul Haworth – or just read it here



Andy de Fiets: Letter to Robin Kinross
Paul Haworth & Sam de Groot


22-year-old Andy de Fiets, on the verge of graduating from his graphic design studies, writes to his hero: Hyphen Press publisher Robin Kinross. Andy offers unsolicited advice, seeks much-needed guidance, and shares his thoughts on matters such as typography, The Smiths, Islamic fundamentalism, proper clothing, the homeless, dust covers.

Andy spots every comma but misses every point. A delightful typographic comedy!



First printing January 2009 (mimeograph, € 7)
Second printing June 2010 (with seventeen minor amendments and a photo insert)
210 × 125 mm, 24 pages + cover, printed offset in black and red, stapled
ISBN 978-94-90006-01-3
Trade distribution for USA/Canada by Textfield
Trade distribution for the rest of the world by and Motto

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Koenig Books at Charing Cross (80 Charing Cross Road, London WC2, UK)
Koenig Books at Serpentine Gallery (Kensington Gardens, London W2, UK)
AA Bookshop (36 Bedford Square, London WC1B, UK)
B Store (24a Savile Row, London W1S, UK)
Cornerhouse (70 Oxford Street, Manchester, UK)
Motto Berlin (Skalitzerstraße 68, Berlin, Germany)
Pro qm (Almstadtstraße 48–50, Berlin, Germany)
Mzin (Paul-Gruner-Straße 64, Leipzig, Germany)
Boys Boys Boys (Neuer Kamp 19, Hamburg, Germany)
Section 7 Books (65 Rue Rébeval, Paris, France)
Yvon Lambert (108 Rue Vieille-du-Temple, Paris, France)
Underwood Ink (Ryesgade 30A, København N, Denmark)
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Kunstgriff (Limmatstraße 270, Zürich, Switzerland)
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Printed Matter (195 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY, USA)
The Big Idea (504 Millvale Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
The Books (43 Gamgodang-gil, Seoul, South Korea)
split/fountain (452 Karanghape Road, Auckland, New Zealand)
Typotheque

Paul introduces the book right here

We’re proud to be included in the ‘self-publishing’ issue of Seoul’s Graphic magazine

Andy spotted in Amsterdam, before losing his spectacles in Zürich



Little Titans
Nescio


Nescio (Latin for ‘I don’t know’, pseudonym of J.H.F. Grönloh, 1882–1961) is one of the best Dutch writers of the 20th century, but previously unavailable in English. This edition offers a translation of Nescio’s classic 1915 novella Titaantjes.

Little Titans is set in Amsterdam around 1900 and deals with a group of ‘boys – but nice boys’ who are discontent with just about everything. Their bosses control their time, girls are always out of reach, the sun refuses to be painted, and the God they’re hoping for never comes. Full of youthful bravado, they plot to change the world once and for all – only to fail before even starting. The book is a hard but compassionate look at the inevitable loss of the idealism and hope of youth, with a subtle sense of humor and a fresh eye for minute detail.

Translated by Sam de Groot with Ian Adams



Published June 2008
143 × 93 mm, 68 pages + cover, mimeographed in sky-blue, sewn and glued

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Dexter Sinister (38 Ludlow Street (basement south), New York, NY, USA)
Elliott Bay Book Co. (101 South Main Street, Seattle, WA, USA)

And previously at
bookartbookshop (17 Pitfield Street, London N1, UK)
Freedom Books (84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1, UK)
Spoonbill & Sugartown (218 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA)
City Lights (261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, USA)
Art Zine Distro (Upland, CA, USA)
Mulligan Books (208 South State Street, Ukiah, CA, USA)
Leaves of Grass (15 South Main Street, Willits, CA, USA)



A comparison with Felix J. Douma’s 1976 translation, Young Bucks, is available on

An authorized translation of most of Nescio’s work is being produced now by Damion Searls


And yet, and yet...
Nescio


Four very short bittersweet reflections: ‘First Emotion’, ‘Pleasure Train’, ‘12 March 1943’ and ‘This year...’ Written between 1914 and 1943.

Translated by Sam de Groot with Ian Adams



Published January 2009
143 × 93 mm, 16 pages, mimeographed in sky-blue, stapled

€3 + shipping
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Underwood Ink (Ryesgade 30A, København N, Denmark)
Dexter Sinister (38 Ludlow Street (basement south), New York, NY, USA)
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