[SPECIAL PRESS] THE BIRD & BULL PEPPER POT. INGREDIENTS: CHOICE BITS OF UNCOMMON | PAPERMAKING, PUBLISHING AND PRINTING HISTORY | SIMMERED IN A TASTY BROTH OF POETRY, CURRENT | EVENTS AND AMUSING ANECDOTES. LIGHTLY SEA- |~SONED WITH A DASH OF OBSCENITY, AND WITH SE- | LECTED PORTIONS OF TRYPE ADDED AS IN THE | OLD ORIGINAL RECIPE. PREPARED WITH A ZESTFUL | VARIETY OF TYPE FACES AND SERVED | BY HENRY MORRIS.~
- SIGNED Hard Cover
- North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1977
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1977. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Signed. Quarto; in quarter tan morocco, paste paper over boards; lettered horizontally in gilt on the spine; with morocco corner tips ; [1], half-title; [3], title; [5], Contents; 7, Foreward; 8-86, text (page 23 mispaginated 27); 89, colophon. ; there is ninor loss (insect?) to the top corner of the front pastedown; the edition is limited to "Approximately 250 copies" of which this is #204 signed by Henry Morris.~~In the B&B Press bibliography, Henry Morris notes that this book was "conceived in boredom" but that he thoroughly enjoyed the writing and editing of the book. Note: "The pattern in the cover pastepaper was produced with an automobile floor mat."~~A lovely copy with the typically Morris errata slip between pages 22 and 23. And with Prospectus laid in. (Taylor, A19). Fine binding.