Stan Bevington (photo: Tom Sandler)

On Aug. 27, Coach House Books celebrated 50 years at its annual end-of-summer Wayzgoose shindig (made memorable by touching speeches and a surprise appearance by ’80s icon and author Molly Ringwald.) Here’s founder Stan Bevington with the original (still working) press on which he and Dennis Reid produced Coach House’s first title, Wayne Clifford’s Man in a Window.