Doomsday Books

San Francisco: Printed for Herbert Rothchild for members of the Roxburghe Club, 1928 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. One of 150 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Edited by Peter Bissenschwitz. Tall quarto. Pp. [6], 9, [3]. Title page printed in black and red. Handset Janson type, Black cloth-backed gray boards. Small bookplate on inner cover, head and foot of spine quite worn and torn, inner hinges cracked and broken. A very good copy. The "Printer's Note" at the end notes that "The Department of Literary Research of the Grabhorn Press cannot vouch for the authenticity of this manuscript. We are unable to verify the existence of either Dr. Bissenschwitz or Professor Niesenwurzel, and under the circumstances, it's a bit puzzling to account for how the manuscript got itself written and edited." This copy with a variant binding not noted in the Grabhorn Bibliography; normally bound in marbled boards with brown cloth back. [Grabhorn: 113]..