Incunabula (publisher)

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Incunabula is a small press originally based in Seattle, Washington, United States, operated under the sole proprietorship of Ron Drummond.

Between 1992 and 1996, Incunabula published three books and one broadside: They Fly at Çiron by Samuel R. Delany (July 1993); Antiquities: Seven Stories by John Crowley (October 1993); "Solutions to Everything" by Michael Ventura (10 September 1994); and Atlantis: Three Tales by Samuel R. Delany (July 1995).

After a long hiatus, the company solicited subscription payments for a 25th anniversary edition of John Crowley's 1981 novel, Little, Big , which is finally being published, as the 40th anniversary edition, at the end of 2022.

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