Oak Tree Fine Press is a small not-for-profit publishing house set up with the assistance of Nobel Laureate John Maxwell Coetzee. It publishes limited edition hand bound signed books featuring the work of world leading authors and artists.
All proceeds from the sales of books by Oak Tree Fine Press are targeted at organizations which offer support to the child victims of the African HIV/AIDS crisis.
Oak Tree Press was founded in 2005 and is based in Oxfordshire, UK. It is primarily a volunteer organisation.
Famous quotes containing the words oak tree, oak, tree and/or press:
“Where he swings in the wind and rain,
In the sun and in the snow,
Without pleasure, without pain,
On the dead oak tree bough.”
—Edward Thomas (1878–1917)
“When the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The tree the tempest with a crash of wood
Throws down in front of us is not to bar
Our passage to our journey’s end for good,
But just to ask us who we think we are....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“As they move into sharing parenting, men often are apprentices to women because they are not yet as skilled in child care. Mothers have to be willing to teach fathers—both by stepping in and showing and by stepping back and letting them learn.”
—Nancy Press Hawley. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 6 (1978)