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Auction archive: Lot number 11

Bogus”. Fine Printing Publishing and Bookselling in the USA: 1980. An Overview, …

Auction 09.04.2015
9 Apr 2015
Estimate
£300 - £500
ca. US$448 - US$747
Price realised:
£200
ca. US$298
Auction archive: Lot number 11

Bogus”. Fine Printing Publishing and Bookselling in the USA: 1980. An Overview, …

Auction 09.04.2015
9 Apr 2015
Estimate
£300 - £500
ca. US$448 - US$747
Price realised:
£200
ca. US$298
Beschreibung:

Bogus". Fine Printing Publishing and Bookselling in the USA: 1980. An Overview, [one of only 8 copies printed], all text consisting of overprinted waste sheets, no colophon, original morocco-backed marbled boards, spine a little spotted and faded, Port Clarendon, Cul-de-Sac Press, [North Hills, Pa., Bird & Bull Press], 1980 § [Morris (Henry)], "Theodore Bachaus". Private Presses of San Serriffe, one of 350 copies (all "number 1"), original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, 1980; The First Fine Silver Coinage of the Republic of San Serriffe: The Bird & Bull Press Commemmorative 100 Coronas, 2 vol. including silver proof coin, one of 350 copies, prospectus and ephemera loosely inserted, original morocco-backed boards, coin mounted in original board folder, together in slip-case, 1988; The World's Worst Marbled Papers, one of 400 copies (all "number 1"), samples, original wrappers, some spotting, spine faded, 1978, all with illustrations, [B & B A28, 25, 45 & 20], Newtown, Pa., Bird & Bull Press (5) *** The first is one of the scarcest of the press's books, a joke aimed at "...the self-conscious, avant-garde nonsense which was then, and continues to be, presented as significant milestones in the development of the art of the book". Morris, Thirty Years of Bird & Bull

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
9 Apr 2015
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Bogus". Fine Printing Publishing and Bookselling in the USA: 1980. An Overview, [one of only 8 copies printed], all text consisting of overprinted waste sheets, no colophon, original morocco-backed marbled boards, spine a little spotted and faded, Port Clarendon, Cul-de-Sac Press, [North Hills, Pa., Bird & Bull Press], 1980 § [Morris (Henry)], "Theodore Bachaus". Private Presses of San Serriffe, one of 350 copies (all "number 1"), original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, 1980; The First Fine Silver Coinage of the Republic of San Serriffe: The Bird & Bull Press Commemmorative 100 Coronas, 2 vol. including silver proof coin, one of 350 copies, prospectus and ephemera loosely inserted, original morocco-backed boards, coin mounted in original board folder, together in slip-case, 1988; The World's Worst Marbled Papers, one of 400 copies (all "number 1"), samples, original wrappers, some spotting, spine faded, 1978, all with illustrations, [B & B A28, 25, 45 & 20], Newtown, Pa., Bird & Bull Press (5) *** The first is one of the scarcest of the press's books, a joke aimed at "...the self-conscious, avant-garde nonsense which was then, and continues to be, presented as significant milestones in the development of the art of the book". Morris, Thirty Years of Bird & Bull

Auction archive: Lot number 11
Auction:
Datum:
9 Apr 2015
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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