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UNIT/PITT’s location since April 2011 has been here in the Chinese Times building. Our sub-500ft2 storefront, with no plumbing, is one of a dwindling number of affordable main-floor spaces in the central area of Vancouver. The building was completed in 1902, and includes a top floor with bay windows and high ceilings, and a technically…

In two more days Publication Studio Vancouver’s storefront residency at UNIT/PITT ends. It’s been a good summer, one where we launched a new series of Pitt publications and participated in PS Vancouver’s launch of an additional six or seven new titles. The reason we say “six or seven” is because new books are still in…

Thanks to Anne Cottingham for mentioning UNIT/PITT, and Publication Studio Vancouver’s storefront residency (on until Saturday, August 20) in this article. After August 20th we’ll be taking a short break to prepare for another big push this fall. Watch this page for details, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter, or subscribe to our e-mail…

A surprisingly intense afternoon of old books being made into new, on Saturday August 6. Here’s a sampling: A treasured, well-worn and notated dictionary, re-bound in three volumes with red covers, iridescent end papers, and white spine and cover stamps. Covers (new, and the original one tucked inside): Umberto Eco’s The Name Of The Rose…

Here’s the update we said we would post. Re-reading the Riot Act by leannej is the first in a series of new books from UNIT/PITT and Publication Studio Vancouver, emerging from the series Rereading The Riot Act, curated by Anakana Schofield. (The same series won UNIT/PITT a mention in The London Review of Books a…