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The APHA Newsletter comes free with membership. Recent issues can be downloaded from this page as Adobe Acrobat files. Information on submitting articles appears below. More recent issues are online here.

• "Preserving, Repairing and Restoring Old Presses" by Stephen O. Saxe (HTML with revisions or PDF without revisions) [republished from the APHA Newsletter (Sept-Oct 1987) no. 79, the HTML version with updates in square brackets from the author, September 2005]

• "Nineteenth Century Type Collections in America" by Stephen O. Saxe (PDF/403K) [republished from the APHA Newsletter (May-June 1986) no. 71

• Related: Stephen O. Saxe. "H. L. Mencken: in the Steps of Gutenberg." by Stephen O. Saxe, with Vincent Fitzpatrick, and Frederick N. Rasmussen. From Printing History, vol. 5 (1983), No. 1 (whole number 9). [The story of how a Christmas gift changed the life of a young Mencken.]

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