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Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarter dark red oasis morocco with green leather spine label gilt and green silk cloth-covered boards, slipcase, 8vo., 30, (4), 50-89, (9) pages, illustrated with three wood-engravings by Wesley Bates, mounted color photographs, mounted paste-paper specimens, a large folding broadside, title-page facsimiles and a keepsake. One of 200 copies (all numbered 9) printed by Henry Morris from Ehrhardt type on Arches mouldmade paper. The letter from Dr. Bachaus containing the four commemorative stamps, in the unopened, post-marked envelope with cancelled stamp, is present along with the prospectus. A fine copy in the fine black silk cloth-covered board slipcase.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
BACHAUS, Theodore. The Booksellers of San Serriffe. Bird & Bull, Newtown, 2001.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, handsomely bound in green silk cloth with rust morocco spine and green leather spine label; black cloth slipcase. (Newtown): San Serriffe Publishing (i.e. Bird & Bull), 2001. Limited First Edition - Number 9 of only 200 copies. Contains mounted color photographs, a fold-out broadside & 3 woodcut illustrations by Wesley Bates. Lacking the airmail "letter" from Theodore Bachaus, but otherwise fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 200 copies (this, like all copies, no. 9), 8vo, pp. 30, [4], 50-58, [5], 64-89, [1]; large folding broadside bound in which may or may not be part of the loopy pagination; numerous tip-ins, facsimiles, illustrations, many in color; original maroon oasis-backed green cloth, gilt stamped on upper cover, morocco label on spine, publisher's slipcase; fine. "Two hundred copies printed at the Foolscap Press in Garamondo . Wesley W. Bates, second only in reputation to Mischa Goss, has made the wood engravings for this book." This copy contains the separate air-mail letter, not laid in as issued (see below), from Theodore Bacchus, the Department of State, Republic of San Serriffe, as well as the pane of 4 San Serriffe stamps, and the original prospectus. Forty-Four A65. Says Sid Berger of the separate envelope and letter: "The bound book came in a slipcase which was then wrapped in white paper (still around my copy). The envelope with the extra pane of stamps came through the U.S. post!On a phone call with Henry, I learned that he wanted to know if his San Seriffe stamps would work in the U.S. post.He said that at worst the envelopes he sent would be trashed.He mailed them to himself (as the address on the envelope indicates: "To: An American friend / c/o Bird & Bull Press / 2 Jericho Mountain Road / Newtown Pa., USA 18940." When he got it, he was delighted to have skunked the feds, and he sent that envelope to his subscribers in the same box as he mailed the slip-cased book.The envelope with the letter and extra pane of stamps was not meant to be part of the boxed volume.It was a separate thing altogether.They came as a package, but clearly the envelope was not meant to fit into the box."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.