Jim Servies (3 results)

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First edition. 84pp. Illus. 8.5 X 11. The history of a small "private" press in Flordia including many full color illustrations of their output during its 38 year history. Signed by its owner and printer Jim Servies.Bound in card stock.

Single folded 8.5" x 11" sheet with two-sided printing and laid-in a 4" x 9" folder. Gray paper sheet (limited to 150 unnumbered copies) has essay "Roasting the Wild Orange" by Joshua Geddes excerpted from his article "Land hunting in Florida" published in the May 20, 1869 issue of "The Cultivator & Country Gentleman" journal. Folder has some soiling, toning, and slight curling towards top as well as short fore-edge margin tear at center of front cover.

Unpaged - four unnumbered leaves (i.e. 8 pages) plus covers. Red string-bound paperback booklet: H 16cm x L 13cm. Two spots of minor soiling but otherwise interior leaves are bright and clean. OCLC entry (two holding institutions) states hand-made paper but booklet's text makes no mention of that. Reprints an e e cummings poem first published in the January 1920 issue of Dial (literary magazine). Booklet is laid-in its original torn and soiled mailing envelope postmarked 13 Dec 1990 (so booklet likely prepared as an end-of-the year Christmas keepsake) and sent to a Selma, Alabama physician whose retirement was spent book collecting and occasionally bookselling.