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Published by Weather Bird Press, Fallbrook, Ca., 1986
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Publisher's cloth with labels to spine and front. Limited to 150 copies. Fine condition in like DJ in mylar. ; Octavo; 27,[1] pages.
Published by Weather Bird Press, Fallbrook, CA, 1986
ISBN 10: 0929722221ISBN 13: 9780929722221
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited to 150 copies. Fine copy in very good dust jacket with slight edge wear (short tears near and around top of spine and light wear along top edge with slight dust soiling. No markings, no bookplate.
Published by Weather Bird Press, (N.p., 1972
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
One of fifty copies. Twenty engaging line engravings, including two fold-outs, of various types of chickens. The illustrations, printed in red, black or gold, are reprinted from the "Bantam Newspaper". Bound in brown cloth over boards with paper label. Fine in plain d/w. (2 7/8 by 2 1/4; 73x58mm).
Published by South Laguna, CA: Weather Bird Press,] 1969., 1969
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
ÒThis excerpt from The Perfumed Garden is the pressÕ only encounter with erotica. The illustrations, cut by the press, transcend the subject matter so well as to deserve a G rating today.Ó (25 Years of the Weather Bird Press, 1993, #10. Vance Gerry Bibliography (Whittington Press, #11). Octavo. 10 pp. With three linocut plates printed in purple. Title-paged printed in purple and black. Dark red cloth over patterned purple boards. In the dust jacket, which is a bit chipped at the edges. A fine copy. One of fifty copies in boards in a total edition of seventy-five (twenty-five were bound in paper wrappers). This is one of the earliest books of Vance GerryÕs Weather Bird Press. Most of the earliest items were ephemeral pieces, or in wrappers.
Published by [Pasadena: The Weather Bird Press, 1993., 1993
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Catalogue of seventy-seven items printed by Vance Gerry between 1967 and 1993 at his Peach Pit Press and Weather Bird Press, beginning with WaltonÕs Piscator and the AnglerÕs Wish. Includes commissioned works done by the press. The preface by Vance Gerry gives a short history of his printing endeavors. Octavo. [44] pp. Title-page printed in terra cotta and black with a cityscape vignette. With thirteen illustrations (woodcuts, linocuts, and etc.), some in color; four mounted samples (of patterned paper and small illustrations); and two plates, one with a pochoir illustration from Dan StrehlÕs The Spanish Cook and the other a fold-out plate with a line drawing by Ednest Lindner. Bound by Mariana Blau in patterned paper boards with blue cloth spine. In the original off-white paper dustjacket printed in light brown. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket. One of about a hundred copies, twenty of which are deluxe. Signed on the colophon by Gerry. The colophon states that a hundred copies were printed, while entry #77 in the present catalogue (which is for the catalogue itself) states that it was printed in an edition of 125 copies. Butcher, ÒChecklist,Ó in Vance Gerry and the Weather Bird Press, #103.
Published by The Weather Bird Press, 2003
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
19/50 COPIES signed by Gerry, 12 bifolia, one each for the title and colophon and then 10 with Gerry line drawings pochoir-coloured, titles printed in red, 4to, the sheets loose as issued in grey card portfolio within mustard wrappers of handmade paper, acetate wrapper, fine. A wonderful evocation; a short text accompanies the illustration for each instrument and a Glossary is provided at the rear. (Butcher 158).