First Choice Books Gallery

First Choice Books is part of a more than 55-year-old independently-owned and operated bindery company, which wasfounded by Rudolf Adamek in 1958. Adamek trained as a bookbinder in Poland before WWII, and started the business while with the military. By 1988 the company was formally incorporated, and in 1993 then-owners Shy and Angel Riyasat added the self-publishing arm of the business, First Choice Books. Current owners Patrick O'Connor and Melanie Perkins purchased the combined companies in 2011. We are the proud printer of several Poet Laureates, winners of an Alcuin award for printing poetry and sponsors of writer's festivals and awards and members of writers' clubs and a national association of book binders. We publish both fiction and nonfiction.