Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Prospectus. 9.5" x 7" 4 pp, Single Folded Page, Letterpress on Watermarked Laid Paper with Deckled Edges. Black & ochre ink. Illustrated. Very Good. Ream wrapper specimen tipped in.Provenance: Frederick G. Ruffner.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Voorn, Henk. Old Ream Wrappers. Bird & Bull Press, Pennsylvania, 1969.
Price: US$87.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Red leather spine with marbled boards shows only the slightest edgewear. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. This is number 23 of 375 copies with the prospectus laid in. Missing two copperplate prints in portfolio.
Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 110pp. Quarto [25cm]. 1/4 red leather over marbled boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine. Touch of rubbing to extremities. Textblock composed of the author's own hand made 15 x 20 course laid paper. Lacking supplementary (separately issued) ream wrapper reproductions. Copy number 159/375. A detailed and beautifully illustrated exploration of the history of a somewhat obscure, collectible type of ephemera. Papermakers aimed to impress, investing in a high level of artistry. These often elaborate paper mill labels have given historians a glimpse into a very old and ever-adapting industry.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto; in burgundy half-morocco over marbled boards, lettered vertically on the spine in gilt; two blank leaves; [I] half-title; [5], Contents 7-8; Introduction [9]; tipped on illustration; 11-101, text; 102, Conclusion; 103-108, Note from the Printed; 109-110, Index; [III], colophon; very light rubbing to the edges of marbled paper-covered boards.~~From the colophon: "Three hundred and seventy-five copies of this book were printed with Baskerville types at the Bird and Bull Press. The paper is my hand made 15 x 20 coarse laid. The printing was finished on February 23, 1969, and I am sorry to say that the question of binding being not yet settled, I can not supply any information in that regard. This is copy number 82." This copy with a handwritten inscription on the colophon from Henry Miller to a collector of Bird & Bull Press.~~This copy is lacking containing two copper plate prints of different 19th-century Dutch ream wrappers.~~ (Bird & Bull, Bibliography 1958-1979 , A 8 (33)).
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Short 4to in larger 4to hinged box. Quarter bound in read leather with marbled boards. Box is salmon cloth and marbled board. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, 1/375. Very light wear to top and bottom edges of joints. Fint creasing to front joint. Rubbing and some scuffing to box. Bumping to bottom edges of box. Faint scuffs and few tiny soil marks to lining of marbled sections of box. VG in VG box.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Description: small 4to. leather spine, marbled paper over boards. 111 pages. Taylor A8. One of 375 numbered copies. This was by far the largest Bird & Bull edition to date. It took Mr. Morris thirty weeks just to make the paper used for it. The book was the result of a trip the Morrises took to Europe in 1967. Bound by Kurt Gaebel & Sons, Holland, PA. The separately issued envelope containing two reproductions of a ream wrapper is not present. A fine copy. leather spine, marbled paper over boards
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Original quarter red leather, by Kurt Gaebel & Sons. Number 210 of 375 copies. A fine copy
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$258.00 + shipping
Description: small 4to. leather spine, marbled paper over boards. 111 pages. Taylor A8. One of 375 numbered copies; this copy is "8, H. Morris' copy." This was by far the largest Bird & Bull edition to date. It took Mr. Morris thirty weeks just to make the paper used for it. The book was the result of a trip the Morrises took to Europe in 1967. The separately issued envelope containing two reproductions of a ream wrapper is not present. The handmade paper is foxed. Prospectus loosely inserted. leather spine, marbled paper over boards
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$270.00 + shipping
Description: small 4to. leather spine, marbled paper over boards. 111 pages. One of 375 numbered copies (Taylor A8). This was by far the largest Bird & Bull edition to date. It took Mr. Morris 30 weeks to make the paper used for it. The book was the result of a trip the Morrises took to Europe in 1967. With prospectus. The separately issued envelope containing two reproductions of a ream wrapper is not present. leather spine, marbled paper over boards
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
VOORN, Henk. Old Ream Wrappers. North Hills, 1969.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Large 8vo, marbled boards, backed in red leather. North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1969. A fine copy. One of 375 numbered copies, printed on paper made by Henry Morris. Many plates, including two large copperplate prints, as issued.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$390.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: #48 of 375 copies issued. ¼ red morocco over marbled paper covered boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Deckled fore and bottom-edges. Printed by hand on water marked handmade paper made by Henry Morris at Bird & Bull. One leaf is made from the shirts and underwear of various contemporary bookmen; another is taken from a blank book of old Dutch paper. Taylor A8. This was by far the largest Bird & Bull edition to date. It took Mr. Morris thirty weeks just to make the paper used for it. Pale lilac endpapers. The book was the result of a trip the Morrises took to Europe in 1967. In original translucent dust jacket. 110, (1) pages, illustrated with fine red and black reproductions of European & American old ream wrappers, including a tipped-in miniature Dutch engraving of a man packing paper in bales. As Voorn writes in a preface to his 108-page extended essay, "the ream-covers described illustrate the position of Amsterdam as an international center of paper commerce from the seventeenth century onward". printed on deckle-edge handmade paper. Indices of mills, papermakers, importers, and merchants. Includes the usually missing separate portfolio of two Dutch ream wrappers reproductions by C&I Hong. Their tissue guards are still here as well. With original prospectus laid in. Additional jpegs available of the laid in prospectus.
Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.