Vignettes Volume Eclectic Assemblage Anecdotes by Morris Henry (4 results)

Single sheet. Condition: Fine. [4] pp., single sheet folded to 12.25 x 9 in., printed on three sides. Fine copy.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Limited, Numbered Edition. 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. Hard Cover.

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.

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.