Private Presses - Nags Head Press

The Press

Nag's Head Press

Proprietor

Robert S (Bob) Gormack (1918-2006)

Location

At Bob Gormack's home in Memorial Ave, Burnside, Christchurch.

History

§ Noel Waite has written about Bob Gormack in A Book in the Hand edited by Griffith, Penny, Hughes, Peter and Loney, Alan published by Auckland University Press, Auckland 2000. ISBN 1 86940 231 6. The article is entitled The Byron of Burnside and the Nag's Head Press.

§ NZine, an on-line magazine, has an on-line article on Bob Gormack and his life in printing that is available here.

§ Sound Archives New Zealand have a 6 minute 40 second interview with Bob Gormack talking about his commercial publishing days as well as the setting up of the Nag's Head press.

§ Adventure and art : literature publishing in Christchurch, 1934-95 : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the University of Canterbury. 1996. Waite, Noel D

Equipment

A Harrild platen.

Publications

There are two press bibliographies:

The Nag's Head Press: an outline history and descriptive checklist of publications to June 1992. Gormack, R.S. Christchurch, Nag's Head Press, 1992. ISBN: 0908784643.

Another twenty-seven listed publications from the Nag's Head Press, Numbers 93 to 119. Gormack, R.S. Christchurch, Nag's Head Press, 2002. ISBN: 0908784864.