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Sun Moon and Stars Press was established by Andi McGarry in 1986 to "Circulate Organic Ideas", primarily in book form and principally via Artists' Books or visual publications as they are now known. Andi began by making books which were often but not always a narrative of some description with images. The books were often made in the early days using torn cartraige paper,inks, staples, and a typewriter. The first type writer a Smith Corona with a ribbon was later replaced by a brother electric typewriter. What made the book works a bit special was that each individual book was made by hand- hand folded typed stapled and painted all by hand- each one copied from a master copy- as a monk would have done at a scriptorium. The resultant typos and mistakes and indeed improvements made from book to book reflect the added charm that came as a bi product from this cookie work method. The scale of production was also defined by this limiting of copy numbers- huge editons are simply out of the question. That said the press has to date press produced over 200 titles in all kinds of shapes and formats. The later versions of the books became less wordy and far more pictoral, the ink was traded for acrylic and the staples for glue- but still the torn edges persisted. Still also the narritive driven texts which featured for example a bus journey, or a trip on a river in a home made boat, or how indeed the pope came to steal the artists' beer.