Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: [4] pp., single sheet folded to 12.25 x 9 in., printed on three sides. Fine copy.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Description: large 4to. cloth with leather spine label, in special cloth solander case with leather spine. 72, (5) pages, with additional pages of color illustrations. Limited to 150 numbered copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press (Berger A62). Includes chapters on Bird & Bull Incunabula, 19th-Century Security Papers, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Numismata Typographica, Farewell to Papermaking, A History of Die Cutting, The Wurzburg Lithography and more. Includes a tipped-in sample of the first Bird & Bull handmade paper (1958). The portfolio case includes two removable cylinder seal impressions. These clay impressions, attributions to the article "Better Late Than Never," bear images of people and inscriptions from ancient cylinder seals in Babylonia. Full of illustrations in both black and white and color, many tipped-in. Text in Ehrhardt types on Arches Mouldmade paper. Several pages printed in two colors. Prospectus inserted. cloth with leather spine label, in special cloth solander case with leather spine
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
MORRIS, Henry.. Vignettes Volume II.. Newtown: Bird & Bull Press,, 1999.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. Fine in full cloth with inset leather spine label. Fine publisher's clamshell case. Reproductions of two clay impressions of human figures and cuneiform inscriptions housed in a special recess inside the front board. One of 150 numbered copies on Arches mouldmade paper. Original prospectus accompanies. "An eclectic assemblage of anecdotes about papermaking, the private press, printing and its history, book collecting, Numismata Typographica and much more."
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No. 99 of 155 copies; As New in slipcase, with prospectus laid in; 77p., including eleven pages of black and white illustrations and two pages of color inserts; a 7 X 11" sample sheet of the original 1958 Bird & Bull handmade paper is tipped in along with twenty additional tip-ins, most of which are in color. An adjunct to the article "Better Late Than Never" is a pair of clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals. The seals date from 1900-1600 BC, and the two clay impressions, about 1 X 2" in size, are in a recess inside the front cover of the clamshell box. A color insert shows (for the first time in the recorded history of the private press) how the production run of these impressions was accomplished by the Bird & Bull engineering staff in charge of reproduction of ancient artifacts; also included with this copy is a laid-in Appendix to "A History of Die Cutting", without which no copy of this title is complete; book and clamshell bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery in identical light to medium brown cloth. Size: Folio
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1999. Fine. Full brown cloth hardcover in matching clamshell box with two removable clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals place in an inside recess of the box. Includes original prospectus. 11 pages of b&w illustrations, two pages of color inserts, and 21 tip-ins. Number 138 of 150 copies.
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Light brown cloth with leather spine label gilt, matching drop-back box with leather label gilt, folio, 72, (6) pages, 16 photos in black and white, some mounted; 11 photos in color, some mounted; 9 mounted specimens or facsimiles; numerous illustrations throughout the text. Of 150 numbered copies, this is number 4 of 4 copies "with extra material", as noted in Morris' hand in pencil in two places. The extra material consists of an envelope with the Morris CP and Tower watermark, a stationery sheet of with a WFS and Tower watermark, the original prospectus for "Three Erfurt Tales", noted "1 of 4 copies", initialed and dated by Morris, and one of the endpapers from Erfurt, printed with a descriptive line and with a watermark. A pair of clay impressions after ancient cylinder seals of Babylonia are secured in a recess of the drop-back box. Appendix to "A History of Die-cutting" laid in along with the prospectus. Additional shipping cost may be requested. A fine copy in a fine box.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 150 copies, the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery and out-of-series; folio, pp. 72, [6]; title page printed in ochre and black, the text in red, blue, ochre and black; numerous tip-ins, facsimiles, and illustrations throughout, some in color; in a recessed well of the clamshell box which houses the volume is a pair of clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals; original full brown cloth, morocco label on spine, brown cloth clamshell, also with a morocco label. Original prospectus laid in. Forty-Four A62.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: 77 pp; orig light brown cloth with leather spine label, 10.25 x 13.25; printed on Arches mouldmade paper; no. 50 of 150 copies housed in a clamshell case. Eleven pages of b&w illustrations, 2 pages of color inserts, 21 tip-ins. A pair of clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals are placed in an inside recess of the clamshell box. A fine and fresh copy, with prospectus laid in.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.