(ABCedary Letterpress) Carol, Mark Philip, and Alan James Robinson [illustrator]

Banging Rocks: A Dissertation on the Origin of a Species of Rock That Descended With Modification From the Ancient Piroboli, Complete With Elaborate Descriptions of Its Social and Sexual Habits, Information Regarding Its Behaviors and Activities, As Well As Details Pertaining to Its Care and Feeding

Small 8vo, [Easthampton, MA: ABCedary Letterpress], 1990. First edition, deluxe issue. Copy "ii" of twenty-five copies numbered in Roman, signed by the author and illustrator. Quarter morocco and bird boards, morocco fore-edges. Fine, in publisher's custom-made wooden box with flaps concealing insets containing two rocks. The whole enclosed in a felt bag with string tie.

Encased in the specially contrived "solid cherry wood geo-stable home" and felt bag. There were also one hundred numbered copies in boards, without the wooden case. The edition was printed in Centaur and Arrighi types on T.H. Saunders watercolor paper by H.P. McGrath, and bound by Kim O'Donnell. A sophisticated tongue-in-cheek presentation of the notion of sentient, socialized rocks

Item #253207       Price: $2,500.00