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THE SOUTH-SEA BRITHERS.
(Kilmacolm, Scotland: Partick Press, 1992). 254 x 178 mm. (10 x 7"). [viii], 37, [5] pp. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY. From a total edition of 300 numbered copies.
Original quarter yellow cloth over marbled paper boards, upper cover with printed paper label, title in gilt on spine. Title vignette, one in-text and three full-page illustrations, five tipped-in photographs, and one tipped-in folding map. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on limitations page. Rear pocket with three pieces of facsimile printed ephemera inside a printed envelope. ◆As new, with just a breath of wear to extremities.
This charming piece of fine press is a satirical history of the fictitious "Great North Bodoni Railway Company" golf club on the equally fictitious island of San Serriffe. Author and printer David Hamilton ran the Partick Press for his self-published books on golf and medicine, including a series of short letterpress works on fine paper, as here. (ST12654)
Price: $150.00