Pump press ephemera (1 résultats)
Edité par The Pump Press, Aldgate, S.A. 1956
- Édition originale
Vendeur : Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, AustralieKay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller
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EUR 472,86
EUR 22,75 expéditionExpédition depuis Australie vers Etats-UnisQuantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
First Edition. From the collection of Australian bookseller and bibliophile Harry Muir, comprising a handwritten letter from Gerald Fischer to Harry Muir, dated 19 April 1978, sending some items from his press promised during a recent visit to Beck's Bookstore, and commenting on an association to the former General Secretary of…the old [S.A.] Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery he had found in a set of Macaulay's essays bought during his visit; he also reiterates an interest in a copy of a Kookaburra Cookery Book '. if one should turn up not too stained with use . . .' The enclosed items are: 1] Fischer. A DISGRACEFUL PLACARD. Notes to a rare piece of South Australiana. Pp. [8](last blank), cover title with device printed in red, 1 reduced facsimile; stapled without covers; demy 8vo; some light silverfishing to fore-edges, paper lightly browned; The Pump Press, Aldgate, 1956. Farmer p. 39; Farmer Bibliography A1. *The first pamphlet printed by the Pump Press, preceded by some ephemera leaflets printed in 1955. 2] Fischer. SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S FIRST PRINTING PRESSES 1837. Pp. [8](last blank), title page in black with device printed in red, full page illustration of the 1837 printing press; demy 8vo; printed tan textured paper wrappers, with flaps; roy. 8vo, stabbed & tied, with some light silverfishing to outer wrappers; The Pump Press, Aldgate, S.A., 1968. Edition limited to 80 copies. The tenth Pump Press pamphlet. Farmer p. 39; Farmer Bibliography A10. 3] 'ADE! ADE! ADE! Ja Sheiden & Werden thutweh!' Lyndoch Valley Steam & Water Mills. Single fold, 4 pp., p. 1: title and illustration (hand coloured), pp. 2-3: poem, p. 4: note by G.L.F. and colophon, device printed in red; roy. 8vo; Pump Press Poets No. 5, Mosman, N.S.W., 1974. Edition limited to 75 copies. Farmer Supplement p. 6; Farmer Bibliography B5. 4] Quintus Horatius Flaccus. AD VILLICUM SUUM, From the Prize Book of Alexander Oliver: 1853. Pp. [xii], including 4 pp. 'Epistola XIV: . . . , with illustration, on different coloured textured paper, title page printed in red & black; roy. 16mo; printed blue textured paper wrappers, with small illustrated onlay; uncut; The Pump Press, Mosman, N.S.W., 1976. Pump Press Poets Number 7. Number 55 of only 80 copies signed by Gerald Fischer. Farmer Bibliography B7. 5] POOR BLENKINSOP. Single fold, 4 pp., printed in blue & black; p. 1: illustration by Gwenda Fischer 'Blinkie Beach c.74', p. 2: note about Captain John Blenkinsop, a whaler out of Sydney in the early 1830s, p. 3: the title poem, p. 4: colophon; oblong demy 8vo; Pump Press Poets No. 5, Mosman, N.S.W., 1974. Edition limited to 75 copies. Farmer Supplement p. 6; Farmer Bibliography B8. The archive contained in original mailing envelope, tape-repaired and split, addressed by G. L. Fischer to H. B. Muir.
