Thornwillow

Thornwillow was founded in 1985 by Luke Ives Pontifell at age sixteen. With craft and culture, we seek to celebrate the written word.

In the three decades since, it has become one of the premiere fine publishing houses in the world.

08/01/2025

BENEATH THE NARRATIVE COLLECTOR'S BOX
This collection celebrates the power of the unspoken over the imagination with three exceptional texts that communicate below the surface of the narrative. Featuring short works by Hemingway, Doerr, and Matthiessen along with a letterpress broadside and engraved note cards.
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07/30/2025

DUCKS IN A ROW
Use these engraved and hand stamped correspondence cards to rally the troops and get your ducks in a row.
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07/28/2025

EXTRATERRESTRIAL COLLECTOR'S BOX
As you gaze up at the stars and contemplate our place in the universe, do you wonder if we are alone? This collection presents three explorations of this question by three great writers — Ray Bradbury, Jack London, and Isaac Asimov.
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07/26/2025

ATTENTION, PLEASE! by Kwame Anthony Appiah
In Attention, Please! renowned philosopher, cultural theorist, and old friend of the press Kwame Anthony Appiah encourages us, “to pay attention, for a moment, to attention itself… and to tune into what we’ve been tuning out.”
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07/24/2025

HEIRLOOM BOOKS MAKE EXCELLENT GIFTS
A Thornwillow book is a great heirloom gift to celebrate a milestone. Here are some of our favorite recommendations.
THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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ULYSSES by James Joyce
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07/22/2025

LEATHER SPINE STAMPING
Our most recent Centaur Dispatch titles have been featuring gold stamped leather labels.
Leather labels feature prominently on our leather bound editions and clamshell boxes. But we have increasingly started using them on some of our very top tier cloth bindings.
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07/19/2025

THORNWILLOW DISPATCH-
THE UNIQUE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
Gift Individual titles of the dispatch. These elegant volumes are beautifully typeset and crafted to last. They are a pleasure to hold and to read. They will inspire, and endure.
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07/16/2025

BEHIND THE SCENES- Crafting Dispatch Books
All of the pages are printed in signatures on the our historic Heidelberg Machine. While pages are being printed we begin work on custom PastePaper patterns that are used on the Patrons and Centaur Patrons editions. Books are collated and sewn.
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07/14/2025

THREE WAR STORIES by David Mamet
We would like to draw your attention to Three War Stories, an amazing collection by Pulitzer Prize winning writer David Mamet that we released a few years ago in a beautiful edition illustrated by Jackson Robinson.
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07/12/2025

A JOURNALIST AT WAR by Brooke Kroeger
The amazing story of Ann Stringer, one of the most exceptional of exceptional women journalists of World War II, and of her adventures as a wire service reporter for the United Press. This book is both an historical document and an adventure.
Available in Classic or Patrons' Paper Wrappers
*Patrons' Edition Signed by the Author, Brooke Kroeger
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07/10/2025

HOW TO TELL A TRUE WAR STORY by Tim O'Brien

It is an honor to present this publication created in collaboration with our Thornwillow-West Point Fellows: The first fine press edition of Tim O’Brien’s iconic How to Tell a True War Story. The piece, which first appeared in Esquire in 1987 and later in O’Brien’s bestselling short story collection The Things They Carried, examines the role truth plays in communicating soldiers’ experiences during the Vietnam War.

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07/08/2025

BEAUTY IS THE BEGINNING OF TERROR —
A volume of poetry and prose commemorating the centennial of World War I.

Compiled with our West Point-Thornwillow Fellows to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, this book is unlike any that has come before it. It relates the hardship, sorrows, experiences, disillusions, dreams and hopes in The Great War by men and women alike, juxtaposed rather than separated.

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Newburgh, NY
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