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The booksellers of San Serriffe

Title
The booksellers of San Serriffe / Theodore Bachaus, D.S.E.
Author
Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.
Publication
[Newtown, Pa.] : San Serriffe Pub. Co. [i.e. Bird & Bull Press], 2001.

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TextRestricted use *KP (Bird) 05-129Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Additional Authors
  • Bates, Wesley W.
  • Bird & Bull Press. prt
Description
89 [i.e. 88], [7] p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.
Subject
  • Printing > Humor
  • Private presses > Humor
  • Booksellers and bookselling > Humor
  • Fictitious imprints
  • San Serriffe (Imaginary place)
Genre/Form
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Ehrhardt.
Note
  • "Two hundred copies printed at Foolscap Press in Garamondo, February 2001. Wesley W. Bates ... has made the wood engravings for this book"--Colophon.
  • Fictitious imprint.
  • "Composed in Ehrhardt types, printed on Arches mouldmade paper, quarter bound in morocco and enclosed in a cloth-covered slipcase"--Prospectus.
  • A broadside, "Frank Ponzi : I made it my way," is printed on a sheet folded in 8 that is inserted following p. [34] and counted in paging. Numbering resumes on the recto of following leaf with "50."
Binding (note)
  • Binding: Publisher's quarter red morocco and green cloth, stamped in gold; green leather spine label. In black cloth slipcase.
Call Number
*KP (Bird) 05-129
OCLC
46714695
Author
Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.
Title
The booksellers of San Serriffe / Theodore Bachaus, D.S.E.
Imprint
[Newtown, Pa.] : San Serriffe Pub. Co. [i.e. Bird & Bull Press], 2001.
Local Note
NYPL copy is no. 9.
Prospectus ([4] p.) laid in.
Binding
Binding: Publisher's quarter red morocco and green cloth, stamped in gold; green leather spine label. In black cloth slipcase.
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Added Author
Bates, Wesley W. Illustrator. Wood engraver
Bird & Bull Press. Printer
Research Call Number
*KP (Bird) 05-129
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