John and Jean Michael. Forest Park, Illinois.
John and Jean Michael founded Acorn Press in 1958. Hand-set type was used to print around three hundred copies of each press selection. The Acorn Press printed editions for the Caxton Club and for William Doan’s publishing house, and distributed its presswork privately for nearly a decade.
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Parisian Interludeby Edward Doro. (printed for William Doan, Publisher)
This copy in a dust jacket was hand bound in Japanese silk by Higdon Kenney and Florence Bade.
The Prince Who Did Not Exist by Edward Perry Warren
Acorn Press hand-set and printed 150 copies for distribution by the press and 200 for the members of the Caxton Club.
War in '98 by Otto McFeely.
Reference:
Nelson, Richard R. and Clyde C. Walton. The Private Press in the Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin: An Exhibit Honoring the Visit of the Caxton Club to Northern Illinois University, May 12, 1973. DeKalb, IL : Northern Illinois University Libraries, 1973.