Quail Creek Editions

Founded in 2008, Quail Creek Editions is dedicated to the publication of small editions of books and DVDs of the highest quality and generally focuses on subjects in the areas of history and the arts. In all its publications it strives to integrate outstanding design with scholarship and historical insight.

 

The unique publications include original works such as Emilio Amero's surviving films  (transferred to DVD), Adelaide Pearson's previously unpublished travel account, Two in Tuscany with a Donkey (originally written in 1912)  as well as historical books on topics in art, history as well as film history and craft history.  Noted international scholars such as Guillermo Sheridan have contributed to its publications.  Two photographic books were added over the past few years.

 

In recent years, new categories of books were offered, including offerings in Dance History.  The first book was the publication of a previously unknown manuscript by Tamara Karsavina, the outstanding Russian ballerina of the early 20th Century who wrote this previously unpublished manuscript in 1958.  The manuscript, is the surviving portion of a planned longer book that was never published.  Another book on dance, Ballets Russes Dancers Nathalie Branitzka and Jan Hoyer, Their lives together and apart has been added this year ( 2022).  It is a wonderful look at the dancers and includes some family history and photographs as provided by their son, Andre von Hoyer

Quail Creek Editions is, and will remain, a publisher of small numbers of books and DVD's on topics generally not available elsewhere.  

 

In April 2021, the press was privileged to publish Don Gardner Holladay's wonderful book A Creek Called "Grindstone", his reflective illustrated essay about a family property where he goes to replenish his creative nature.  It features  his paintings and prints integrated into an essay that contains warm family history memories.

 

For 2019, two very different books were published. Barbara and the Cord, is the story of two interesting mid-20th century efforts to take art and culture to the rural towns and small cities of New York State and the story of the woman who was the driving force behind both efforts.  (The Cord automobile that she owned all her long life makes an appearance.)  Also published in 2019 was Rhapsody in Wonderment and Horror, it is the story of Tommy Wesley Barnett Scott.  This is the story of a man, who after leading a seemingly normal life suddenly kills two men with his bare hands.  Written by a woman who knew him since their school days, the book provides a fascinating portrait of Scott.

 

 

In 2017 the press published Virtuous Journeys Abroad, a book of a series of essays by students about their experiences abroad while studying under the auspices of the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma College of International Studies. The previous year, two books were done in partnership with other organizations. The first, done in conjunction with the Almond Historical Society is The Almond Story, The Early Years, the 3rd Edition.  This is an expanded edition of a book originally written in 1962 by John Reynolds, the first President of the Almond (New York) Historical Society.  (It is available from the Almond Historical Society, 7 Main Street, Almond, NY, 14804 for $18 plus $4 s&h.)  The other, done in conjunction with the School of Dance of the University of Oklahoma, was an exhibition catalog of the exhibition From Diaghilev to Terekhov & Chouteau, at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.  This very handsome catalog is available from the University of Oklahoma School of Dance, 560 Parrington Oval, RM 1000, Norman, OK 73019.  It is priced at $22 plus S&H.

 

In 2016 our first venture in poetry was a book of poetry by Helene Coogan, with the title of The Writer She Wanted to Be...,  This contains fifty poems, mostly written in the 1930s.  These fifty poems written early in her life give insight into her subsequent career.  Later, writing under her married name, Helene C. Phelan, she wrote  seven histories focused on the Southern Tier area of Western New York State.  For 2020 the press was privileged to publish William H. Clamurro's third book of poetry; Private Archaeology.

 

 

In 2015 two titles were added.  The first, On the Road, Into the Woods, In the Garden and Within the House, is part photographic essay, part travel book and part a naturalist's photographic journal.  It records places visited as well as places inhabited.  The commentary is alternately wry and philosophical.  The second new title added was a book about the Mexican artist, Emilio Amero, Unfinished, Unknown or Unseen.  This book explores the life of painter, printmaker and photographer Emilio Amero and features many of his previously unseen photographs and designs or illustrations.  An earlier book based on Amero’s life; El rio sin tacto, about the cinematic collaboration of Amero and Gilberto Owen remains in print and is available for shipping.

 

Additional, older titles including the photographic essay Doors and Passageways in Eisenstadt,  Lei Cai's book of calligraphic paintings, Adoration of Characters, craft histories Becoming the Village Potter, the Life of Linn L. Phelan, and Following the Brick Path, the story of Rowantrees Pottery, are still available.

 

Quail Creek Editions expects to continue to expand its offerings at a measured pace  It has no intentions of becoming a large operation and will continue to focus within a narrow conceptual and aesthetic framework where it is able to maintain strict control over the quality of its offerings.

 

 

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