LADIES ALMANACK: SHOWING THEIR SIGNS AND THEIR TIDES; THEIR MOONS AND THEIR CHANGES; THE SEASONS AS IT IS WITH THEM; THEIR ECLIPSES AND EQUINOXES; AS WELL AS A FULL RECORD OF DIURNAL AND NOCTURNAL DISTEMPERS
Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1928. Limited First Edition #839/1050. Octavo, 84 pages. In Very Good condition. Protected in lightly torn glassine. Bound in publisher's illustrated tan covers. Mild general shelf wear with light foxing to covers. Textblock uncut. Moderate foxing throughout. Enumerated on copyright page. SH consignment. Shelved case 0.
1403259
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $3,000
NOTES
Bill Bird was an American publisher best known for running the Three Mountains Press, a small press that published many prominent modernists in the 1920s including Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, William Carlos Williams and Robert McAlmon, with Ezra Pound serving as editor. Over a period of two and a half years he published 9 works. Concurrently he founded Consolidated Press Service and worked there as a journalist from 1920-1933, when he joined the New York Sun as chief foreign correspondent. Forced to flee France after the Nazi invasion, he wrote articles warning of war. After WWII he moved to Tangier and was the editor of the Tangier Gazette.
This title was among Bird's private collection, having been carted by him from Paris (where he stayed until 1940), to Spain, Tangiers, and finally back to Paris and by descent to the US.