Twenty-five Years of the Weather Bird Press. At various locations but under one master: V. Gerry. With a critical introduction by Bunston Quayles

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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. N° de ref. del artículo 17125

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