Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarter morocco and tips with blue morocco spine label gilt and paper-covered boards gilt, landscape small 4to., 77. (1) pages and (24) unpaginated leaves of specimens of Chinese decorated tea chest papers. One of 325 numbered copies printed from Van Dijck types on mouldmade Hahnemuhle paper. Bound by Barbara Blumenthal. Prospectus loosely inserted, Very light fading to edges of boards, else a fine copy.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.63 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Oblong 8vo. Maroon morocco spine with green leather spine label stamped in gilt, over blue paper boards stamped in gilt, with matching leather board tips. Prospectus laid in. One of 325 numbered copies, this is no. 25. With 33 (some combined) paper samples. A Fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$380.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: The authors, having found an old cache of Chinese metal clad paper which had been stored away for some fifty years, proceeded to write this unique monograph on the subject, tipping in samples from their find to illustrate the book. The papers, many woodblock printed by hand in lively Chinese motifs, were originally produced as lining material for chests of tea shipped to the West. Includes the correspondence between the authors which documents the find and later lead to the writing of the book, and many interesting details about the original application of the paper, its market price in the early part of the 20th century, as well as the authors' efforts to preserve the collection. A limited numbered edition of 325 copies, printed on heavy mouldmade paper, with fine typography and hand binding. A wonderful addition to any library on the history of paper and its use. 128 pp., 7 b&w plates including one large fold-out illustration, 24 samples of the original collection of papers tipped in. Size: 20 x 26 cm, landscape
Seller: Orchid Press, Trinity East, NL, Canada
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Condition described as "Like New" because I bought this book, and many of the other Bird & Bull books I list here, brand new directly from Henry Morris decades ago and did not unpack them until today. #148 of a limited edition of 325. Original quarter maroon morocco over blue paper-covered boards stamped Chinese design in gilt. Blue morocco label on spine gilt on blue title-label on spine. 77, [2] plus 24 colorful tipped- in paper samples at the back, [1] colophon page. Illustrations in the text. Oblong 8vo, printed on heavy Hahnemühle paper with fine typography and hand binding. With other illustrations, including one large fold-out illustration, after page 52.
Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Size: 10 1/8 in. wide, 7 7/8 in tall (landscape format). Blue paper over boards with gilt Chinese design on cover; red leather spine, hinges, and tips. Gilt on green title label on spine. No. 202 of 325 copies. Printed on heavy mouldmade paper, with fine typography and hand binding. 127 pp. 24 samples of the original collection of papers tipped in. plus other illustrative material, including one large fold-out illustration. Prospectus (folded) is laid-in.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$406.25 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 325 copies (this, no. 16), oblong 8vo, pp. 77, [2] plus 24 mounted (and very colorful) paper samples at the back; fine copy in original maroon morocco-backed pictorial blue paper-covered boards stamped in gilt, blue morocco label on spine; fine. Original prospectus laid in. Thirty A44.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$406.25 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 325 copies, oblong 8vo, pp. 77, [2] plus 24 mounted (and very colorful) paper samples at the back; fine copy in orig. quarter maroon morocco over blue paper-covered boards stamped in gilt.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$406.25 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 325 copies, oblong 8vo, pp. 77, [2] plus 24 mounted (and very colorful) paper samples at the back; fine copy in original maroon morocco-backed pictorial blue paper-covered boards stamped in gilt, blue morocco label on spine; fine. Thirty, A44.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.