Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First printing. 16mo. 4 1/4" x 2 7/8". 1-375 copies. Unpaginated [23 pp]. Letterpress printed in two colors. Bound in gilt-stamped brown paper over boards, with the separate fold-out diagram of a balloon bomb, presented in a matching slipcase. The last book Henry Morris printed at North Hills. Very fine.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 32mo. (4 1/2" x 2/ 7/8"}; in the publihser's brown cloth binding with titling in gilt; with a foldout diagram of a balloon bomb in a separate wrapper, together housed in a stiff paper slipcase; this copy accompanied with the publihser's prospectus for this and another new book (dos a dos) On Improvements in Marbling; the edition of Balloon Bombs limited to 375 copies.~~Henry Morris said of this book: "I don't like miniature books, and this isn't small enough to be so classified, but it's as small as I care to go. This bizarre episode of World War II documents yet another use for the featherlight but unbelievably strong Japanese hand made paper."~~ (Birr & Bull Thirty, A36). Fine binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
. Japanese Paper Balloon Bombs: the First ICBM. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, 1982.
Price: US$259.00 + shipping
Description: 16mo. 16ff. One of 375 copies. Illustrated with a fold-out drawing of a balloon bomb tipped into a separate folder. The Japanese lanched these bombs after their defeat at Midway in an attempt at retaliation. This effort met with little success. This is the last book Henry Morris printed at North Hills. Extremely fine in boards and matching slipcase. (Bird & Bull Bibliography A36).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.