The Stone Street Press

“We can survive functional illiteracy or shattered windows of vulnerability, but not the demise of The
Decent Cup of Tea.”

This small volume was the basis of my third Clarkson Potter book of the same title and which ran to four printings. While quite popular, it is now out of print.However, my original version lives on!
My Irish grandma used to say “when I makes tay,I makes tay!” “How to Make a Decent Cup of Tea” will show you how. No teabags allowed!

Reviews:The definitive exegesis, diversely feted:The New Yorker: “With that name he should know!” Suddeutsche Zeitung: “Stands out in the vast tea literature.”

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Price: $4.00

Art versus Nature
Poems of Change and Nature.
Blue mango leaf end papers, elegant slipcase and draw ribbon. Labels calligraphed in gold, and inside 3 initial caps in colored inks.

Price: $30.00

A dozen lively cat-tales from around the world. Five books, five cat linocuts on covers. (also published by Clarkson Potter)
[5 vols slipcased 5×16pp 32vo]

Price: $24.00

For the literary cat lover. Great stuff: Pangur Ban, 9th century Irish poem, also, from the poet Baudelaire and Christopher Smart’s “For Jeffrey,My Cat”
6 cat linocuts. [6 vols slipcased 6×16pp 32vo]

Price: $24.00

Ten more lively folk tales. 3 cat linocuts.
[3 vols slipcased 3×32pp 32vo]

Price: $24.00

One Hundred Classic Nursery Rhymes
“The essential introduction to literature for a young child”
~Robert Graves.

100 classics: rollicking rhyme, rhythm & fun.
Multi-coloured slipcase and book covers
[4 vols. slipcased 4×24 pp. 32vo ]

Price: $24.00

by Mahon O’Heffernan.
Poetry as Cultural History. This poignant piece is emblematic of the cultural crisis in Ireland during the early 1600s. His Gaelic chieftain patron exiled, the distinguished poet is now peddling his verses on the roads of Munster.
The typeface is a version of my calligraphy.
[Sewn 24 pp 16vo]

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The Snoring Poem, a wonderfully funny 17th century poem.
The anonymous poet compares her bed-partner’s snoring to a litany of unpleasant 17th C. noises!
The introduction has a hand-colored initial.
[Sewn 16pp 16vo ]

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Warning! Contains eccentric Frog-i-ana!
Three miniature books, in a slipcase:
Letter to a Young Frog.
Translating Basho’s Frog
(Basho’s nightmare)
And Frog Went A-Courting.
And Frog and Toad calls.

From the Latin, rana Frog, literally, “croaker, crier”. Ranaphilia, a special fondness for frogs.

Each slipcase is covered with one of a kind handpainted pastepaper. The 3 books inside have handpainted covers or are black paper with a hand painted label. Every Ranaphilia is different from the next.
Preferred color schemes can be taken into consideration if you select a color scheme with the provided form.

Price: $35.00

All the Java Jive you need to know, plus my own recipe for Irish Coffee.
Reviews:
“A tiny gem” Florence Fabricant,1993 NY Times
[20 pp 32vo]

Price: $4.00

Bishop Berkeley
His primary philosophical achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterial ism" (later referred to as "subjective idealism" by others). This theory, summed up in his dictum, "Esse est percipi" ("To be is to be perceived").
His most widely-read works are A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713), in which the characters Philonous and Hylas represent Berkeley himself and his contemporary John Locke.
Don't be a Knave.

Price: $9.00