Durfort, Claire De. OURIKA. W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, 1977.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: 4to. quarter leather over paste paper-covered boards. 65 pages. Limited to 500 copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press on Green's Hayle paper, with the paste paper made by Morris and the binding executed by Gray Parrot. (Taylor B6). Prospectus loosely inserted. Spine faded, else a fine copy. Translated into English with an introduction and epilogue by John Fowles who has signed all copies. A thoughtful story about a black woman, adopted and raised as a lady in French society and then left on her own without funds. quarter leather over paste paper-covered boards

Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.

Henry Morris. [SPECIAL PRESS] THE BIRD & BULL PEPPER POT. INGREDIENTS: CHOICE BITS OF UNCOMMON | PAPERMAKING, PUBLISHING AND PRINTING HISTORY | SIMMERED IN A TASTY BROTH OF POETRY, CURRENT | EVENTS AND AMUSING ANECDOTES. LIGHTLY SEA- |~SONED WITH A DASH OF OBSCENITY, AND WITH SE- | LECTED PORTIONS OF TRYPE ADDED AS IN THE | OLD ORIGINAL RECIPE. PREPARED WITH A ZESTFUL | VARIETY OF TYPE FACES AND SERVED | BY HENRY MORRIS.~. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, PA, 1977.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: Signed. Quarto; in quarter tan morocco, paste paper over boards; lettered horizontally in gilt on the spine; with morocco corner tips ; [1], half-title; [3], title; [5], Contents; 7, Foreward; 8-86, text (page 23 mispaginated 27); 89, colophon. ; there is ninor loss (insect?) to the top corner of the front pastedown; the edition is limited to "Approximately 250 copies" of which this is #204 signed by Henry Morris.~~In the B&B Press bibliography, Henry Morris notes that this book was "conceived in boredom" but that he thoroughly enjoyed the writing and editing of the book. Note: "The pattern in the cover pastepaper was produced with an automobile floor mat."~~A lovely copy with the typically Morris errata slip between pages 22 and 23. And with Prospectus laid in. (Taylor, A19). Fine binding.

Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.