Mendocino, CA: Hit and Run Press, 1987-2021. First Edition. Broadsides in Box. In 1974, poet and publisher Larry Rafferty founded the Hit and Run press in northern California as a pet project after becoming interested in and studying bookbinding and letterpress during his college years. As a poet himself, he was connected with the community of poets in the area, and he would print poems for his friends as project..... More