Private presses of San Serriffe / Theodore Bachaus, D.S.E.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bachaus, Theodore, 1925-2019, author.

Contributor:

Bird & Bull Press, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing--Humor.

Printing.

Private presses--Humor.

Private presses.

Fictitious imprints.

Genre:

Humor.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Fictitious imprints (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Case bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

40 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

[Port Clarendon] : San Serriffe Publishing Company, 1980.

[North Hills, Pa.] : [Bird & Bull Press], [1980]

Summary:

A jeu d'esprit.

Notes:

Imprint is fictitious.

"Three hundred and fifty copies printed by the San Serriffe Publishing Co. in Port Clarendon, February 1980 This is copy no. 1 Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. by Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, Pa."--Colophon.

"All copies are no. 1."--Heaney.

"Specimen page tipped to page [15], plate tipped to blank leaf following page 40."--Heaney.

Printed in red and black.

Binding: quarter tan cloth over decorative paper boards; author's surname and title stamped in blue on spine; deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has publisher's prospectus for this edition laid in.

Cited in:

Heaney, H.J. Thirty years of Bird & Bull, A25 (pages 17-18)

OCLC:

6710650