A small press with a long memory

Quill & Cinder Press began as a shared project between an editor and a book designer who kept meeting over the same problem: reference books that were beautiful and impossible to use. We publish the kind of book we wanted to own, with files that behave when you print them.

How we work

Each title has one editor and one designer from first draft to release. Illustration and photography are commissioned from named artists, and every contributor is credited on the title page. Nothing is released before it has been proofed on paper.

• Editing and proofing in-house
• Illustration commissioned per title and credited by name
• Print tests on the paper stocks named in each guide
• Corrections reissued free to every buyer of the title

The office

We work from an office in the Mercantile Building on South 8th Street in downtown Boise. It is an editorial office rather than a retail counter; if you need to visit, write first and we will arrange a time.

What we are not

We are not a marketplace, an aggregator or a print-on-demand service. Everything in the catalogue is commissioned, edited and published by us, and the money you pay goes to the people who made the book.