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Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Signed. 8vo.; Quarter brown morocco over patterned paper boards, with lettering to the spine in gilt; 91, [3] pages on Mosher hand-made paper; with a woodcut portrait of Thomas Bird Mosher; limited to 200 copies of which this is number 84.~~The book is printed on "Mosher" hand-made paper, which in this case has darkened a bit, and is wavy at the edges. Viz., this is not a beautiful copy, but copies of this book often are not.~~The first biography of Thomas Bird Mosher. Very Good binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Norman H Strouse. The passionate pirate. Bird & Bull Press, 1964.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Bird & Bull Press, 1964, 91,(2)p, linocut portrait of Thomas Bird Mosher, no 44 of edition printed in 200 numb copies, orig gilt lettered - With STROUSE AUTOGRAPH SIGNED DEDICATION to "George Olmsted, Jr" plus B & B prospectus, plus program of the Celebration of Life for Strouse in 1993, plus typed note from 'Norm' to 'Mark", see photos.
Seller: Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.
Strouse, Norman H.. The Passionate Pirate. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, 1964.
Price: US$518.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 91pp. One of 200 copies. A biography on the life and work of Thomas Bird Mosher, the remarkable New England publisher and literary pirate. The Passionate Pirate is one of Henry Morris's earlier titles. In making it, he was plagued with both papermaking and printing problems, since he had recently acquired a new papermaking beater and a new printing press. The first bindings on the books were disastrous, and the entire edition had to be rebound. This copy is inscribed by Morris "For my good friend Remy Green" and dated 11/15/64. Remy John Barcham Green worked for, and later ran, J. Barcham Green Ltd., which operated the Hayle Mill in Kent, England. Morris was in frequent contact with Remy and his father Jack (John Barcham Green II) when he first began his papermaking journey in the 1950s. Morris says of his initial correspondence with Jack Green: "I really sent a barrage of questions and I must say that Mr. Green was extremely kind as he not only answered them all, but to this day continues to give help and advice." When Jack was ill in August 1957, Remy replied to one of Morris's letters, and afterwards they became "good friends," meeting several times when Remy visited the United States. In addition to the inscription, this copy has a J. Barcham Green Ltd. stamp to the front flyleaf, dated 1 December 1964. One of the Press's more desirable pieces, with an interesting association, considering the issues Morris had in creating it. A fine copy in morocco-backed decorated paper boards, housed in a drop-back box with leather spine label. (Bird & Bull Bibliography A5; Omnibus, pp. 38, 43-49).
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.