first edition Blue cloth spine, patterned paper over boards
1993 · Pasadena, CA
by Vance Gerry (1929-2005)
[Pasadena, CA]: The Weather Bird Press, 1993.
8vo. 10 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches. [Un-paginated]. [44] pp. [including the colophon and the last blank]. Half-title, title page printed in terra cotta and black inks, including a woodcut cityscape vignette, 13 illustrations in a variety of media including woodcuts and linocuts and a couple of which are sample title pages some color, 4 samples of various media included patterned papers and a color illustration from a miniature book, 2 plates - 1 with a pochoir illustration from Dan Strehl's The Spanish Cook which forms a conjugate stub upon which is mounted a folding plate which contains a large line drawing of disassembled hand-printing presses being restored by Ernest Lindner; text clean, unmarked. Blue cloth spine, patterned paper over boards, spine title in blue, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight. SCARCE. SBT224-011. Fine.
LIMITED EDITION of "100 copies of which 20 are DE-LUXE." Colophon.
This is an un-numbered copy. Describes 77 items printed by Vance Gerry at his Peach Pit Press and his Weather Bird Press between 1967 and 1993. Printed with Linotype Scotch type on Curtis Rag paper, bound by Mariana Blau. Entry number 77 of this volume is the description of this book; here Vance states that 125 copies were printed, which of course contradicts the colophon. "Accumulation of the press' efforts, good and bad, presented for the edification of the dubious as well as the consolation of patrons and friends." Gerry.
REFERENCES: Butcher, "Checklist" in Vance Gerry and the Weather Bird Press, No. 103; Gerry, Twenty-five Years of the Weather Bird Press, No. 77. (Inventory #: SBT224-011)
8vo. 10 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches. [Un-paginated]. [44] pp. [including the colophon and the last blank]. Half-title, title page printed in terra cotta and black inks, including a woodcut cityscape vignette, 13 illustrations in a variety of media including woodcuts and linocuts and a couple of which are sample title pages some color, 4 samples of various media included patterned papers and a color illustration from a miniature book, 2 plates - 1 with a pochoir illustration from Dan Strehl's The Spanish Cook which forms a conjugate stub upon which is mounted a folding plate which contains a large line drawing of disassembled hand-printing presses being restored by Ernest Lindner; text clean, unmarked. Blue cloth spine, patterned paper over boards, spine title in blue, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight. SCARCE. SBT224-011. Fine.
LIMITED EDITION of "100 copies of which 20 are DE-LUXE." Colophon.
This is an un-numbered copy. Describes 77 items printed by Vance Gerry at his Peach Pit Press and his Weather Bird Press between 1967 and 1993. Printed with Linotype Scotch type on Curtis Rag paper, bound by Mariana Blau. Entry number 77 of this volume is the description of this book; here Vance states that 125 copies were printed, which of course contradicts the colophon. "Accumulation of the press' efforts, good and bad, presented for the edification of the dubious as well as the consolation of patrons and friends." Gerry.
REFERENCES: Butcher, "Checklist" in Vance Gerry and the Weather Bird Press, No. 103; Gerry, Twenty-five Years of the Weather Bird Press, No. 77. (Inventory #: SBT224-011)
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