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Paul Arthur Amadeus Niesenwurzel. Doomsday Books. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco., 1928.
Price: US$28.44 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair+ hardcover. No DJ. 1 OF 150 PRINTED COPIES. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light tanning. Small stain spots on front. Tearing on spine with covers loosening on hinges. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.36 + shipping
Description: 34.5 x 22 cm, (VII), 10 pag., marbled boards with brown cloth back, edges are a little bumped; else a nice copy. First edition limited to 150 copies handset in Janson Type. The printer states that he is unable to verify the existence of either the author or the editor! Preface by the editor is dated "Jan.16, 1903 at Rumpelstieg". Sprache: Englisch.
Seller: Rödner Versandantiquariat, Den Haag, Netherlands
Price: US$57.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards in laid paper wraps, very good w/ bit of wear to wraps at spine, ink stamp inside(Pony Express Museum, S.F.) and a few words in pencil inside front board. 12p., the finest printing, press work in America in 1928, devoted to this risible bit of literary humor, hoaxing. From the Prolegomenon: The subject of Professor Bissenschwitz's editorial labors is a short essay of a non-scholarly nature by Professor Niesenwurzel.as the reader will remember, the Doctor and Professor Niesenwurzel came to have a serious controversy. Doctor Bissenschwitz had noted the phenomenon that so many effeminate youths were called "Percy" and "Harold". This struck him as as very strange, for, as a matter of history, he knew that "Percy" and "Harold" were once the names of the very bravest and manliest. Text begins w/ epigraph from Hamlet, I am mad but north-north-west. Then: A scientist has calculated that, if left to spawn unchecked, in only a few thousand generations the most minute animalcule could fill the whole earth, and indeed, the entire universe. I wonder no one has yet made this observation about books. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: David Gaines, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Niesenwurzel, Paul Arthur Amadeus. Doomsday Books. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1928.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Edited by Peter Bissneschwitz. The printer states that he is unable to verify the existence of either the author or the editor. Limited to `50 copies Size: Large Format
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth spine with grey boards, 8 3/4 X 13 7/8 inches, 9 pages. top and bottom edges of spine slightly frayed. (see photos) Very good to Near Fine.
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition of 150 copies printed for Herbert L. Rothchild for presentation to members of the Roxburgh Club. 34.5 x 22 cm, viii, 10 pp., printer's note,title page printed in red and black. [GB 113]. Variant binding: green blank dust jacket attached to otherwise naked boards. In the colophon entitled "Printer's Note" doubt is expressed about he existence of either the author or the editor. the finest printing, press work in America in 1928, devoted to this risible bit of literary humor, hoaxing. From the Prolegomenon: The subject of Professor Bissenschwitz's editorial labors is a short essay of a non-scholarly nature by Professor Niesenwurzel.as the reader will remember, the Doctor and Professor Niesenwurzel came to have a serious controversy. Doctor Bissenschwitz had noted the phenomenon that so many effeminate youths were called "Percy" and "Harold". This struck him as as very strange, for, as a matter of history, he knew that "Percy" and "Harold" were once the names of the very bravest and manliest. Text begins w/ epigraph from Hamlet, I am mad but north-north-west. Then: A scientist has calculated that, if left to spawn unchecked, in only a few thousand generations the most minute animalcule could fill the whole earth, and indeed, the entire universe. I wonder no one has yet made this observation about books. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Seller Inventory # 004096 This is a spoof!
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
NIESENWURZEL, Paul Arthur A. DOOMSDAY BOOKS. SF, GRABHORN PRESS, 1928, 1928.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: PLAIN DUST JACKET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD-FINE
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.