- Helaine Victoria Press printed 100s of thousands of bookmarks to be given away with mail orders and at conferences and festivals. A bookmark was always added with the sale of every out-of-print book by and about women. Most of the bookmarks were printed offset. In an offset run, there was extra space in the margin of each sheet, so Nancy Poore and Jocelyn Cohen came up with the idea to fill it with two or three bookmarks. After all, doing so did not add to the cost of the press run, just a little time to pre-press production, and what a bonus! The historical bookmarks varied in size from about 6” x 2” to 9” x 1 ½”. A few were printed letterpress on reclaimed scrap heavy paper stock.
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