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THE BIRD & BULL COMMONPLACE BOOK.

- North Hills : Bird & Bull Press 1971 - 4to. - cloth spine, marbled paper over boards, slipcase. - 65, (6) pages and with envelope on inside rear cover with brass token inserted. - Order Nr. 5504 - Price: $ 225.00

Taylor A11. One of 255 numbered copies. Designed as a collection of "various short pieces which were almost all connected in some way to papermaking or printing, and generally written in a humorous or informal manner." It contains an article on Schaeffer's wasp nest paper, a leaf made from recycling junk mail, and a reprint of the first poem written on the subject of collecting books on papermaking. It is also the only Bird & Bull book to contain a brass token used for services in a house of ill repute. Prospectus loosely inserted.

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> Schlosser, Leonard B., A PAIR ON PAPER, TWO ESSAYS ON PAPER HISTORY AND RELATED MATTERS.

PANDORA. by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Limited to 150 numbered copies (Arno Sanka IV, 3183). Text in Czech. Goethe's play Pandora translated by Pavel Eisner. Brief commentary by the translator. Etchings in red by Jana Konupka. Tissues laid in over etchings. Slipcase lightly soiled.