The First Bite Press printer's mark, a woman's hand reaches up for a pomegranate from a tree in the Garden of Eve. The tree has a snake coiled in the branches.

First Bite Press invites you to a reading experience that combines engaging stories and compelling illustrations with beautiful letterpress printed and hand bound books.

The press publishes original writing and collaborates with artists to illustrate limited edition books. Books are printed by hand on a printing press at the First Bite Press printing studio and book bindery in Portola Valley, California.

The focus of the press is to publish literary romance, updating the high-quality tradition of the Golden Era of fine press printing with contemporary concepts of the genre.

Books are printed on high quality, handmade paper and bound by hand by limited edition binders using materials carefully selected to create a unique tactile and visual experience for the reader.

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Limited Edition Fine Press Books

About the Press
About the Press

  • Limited Edition Books

    Books are printed and bound by hand in limited editions.

    Books
  • Limited edition handprinted chapbooks with colorful covers that were letterpress printed with a floral pattern in purple ink on a dark blue cover and hand sewn in the book bindery at First Bite Press.

    Other Items Made of Paper and Ink

    First Bite Press publishes a Chapbook Series and other ephemera.

    Chapbooks and Ephemera
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