Candi Press is a small press with one conviction: some books deserve to be read slowly, and to be made with the care that asks for it. We set type by hand — old craft — in classical faces on cream paper; we hunt every widow, orphan, and hanging word; we read a text root by root before we ever call it finished. The trained human eye is our final judge — of a word, and of a page.
We publish across three currents:
Primary sources carried into English, sourced and faced.
The old tongues read one word at a time, image as judge.
Recovered and composed writing, made to last.
Historinhas sem Verbos arrived as nothing but 51 phone photographs of a late author’s typed pages, on a flowered tablecloth. Marilda had written a whole book of tales without a single verb — a rare feat of constrained writing. We corrected each image before reading it, reassembled the pile by the page numbers the leaves themselves carried, adjudicated every doubtful word by eye, installed proper Brazilian hyphenation at the typesetting level, and dressed the book in a painting by her son. From a shoebox of photographs to a paperback on Amazon — published in her memory, as Coleção Candi Press, volume one.
See the book on Amazon →If you are an author — living, or carrying a parent’s or a friend’s unpublished work — and you want it made well and brought to readers, write to me. I edit, I typeset, I design the cover, and I bring the book onto Amazon as its Editor. You keep your name on the spine; I make sure the pages are worthy of it.
What the house has printed — the Testamentum Domini collection, a mystery play, and the first literary title. Each one made with the same care.