Barnacles from Many Bottoms. With ephemera.
NY: The Typophiles, 1935. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4. (202) pages, with the elusive contribution (2 pp.) from Richard Ellis which was received too late to be bound in. Black cloth, gilt BR on upper and lower covers, in cloth chemise & quarter leather slipcase. Pastedowns are foxed; protruding deckles dusty, otherwise the contents are fine. Signed by BR beneath his portrait.
The front pastedown is signed by 17 Typophiles, including Paul Bennett, Carl Rollins, Roland A. Wood (wit a seahorse), Philip Hofer, Elmer Adler, Melvin Loos. Individual contributions are also signed,including by John Fass, John Archer, Goudy, Frederick Melcher, Edward Stevens, Cary, & Knauft. Item #13380
No. 34 of 100 numbered copies. Laid in are: invitation to the dinner (with the wrong date), a postcard correcting the date, a printing of BR's 3-page manuscript thanking the Typophiles for the celebratory dinner and for Barnacles, and a humorous announcement of a refund.
A fest-schrift for BR on his return from Oxford in 1935. With some 30 inserts (signatures) with contributions by 55 friends of BR-- including Ruzicka, Angelo, Fass, Goudy, Bennett, Dwiggins, Rushmore, Adler, Beilenson, Cary, Douglas, Wilson, Blumenthal, Hess, and Trenholm. The contributions range from the humorous to serious reviews/discussions of his work. There is a tipped in bookplate designed by BR for William Rydel; a signed wood engraving of the Conrad figurehead by Charles W. Smith; and an elaborate "type picture" by Albert Schiller.
This was the second Typophile Chapbook. Paul Bennett thought it would be the last.
Price: $1,500.00