Collection of Gaberbocchus Press publications and ephemera

from the London publishing house (1948 -1979) founded by the artist couple Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. (1-6) Gaberbocchus ephemera assemblage, including a 35mm contact sheet featuring Stefan Themerson reading at the Public House Bookshop's Extended Series Arts Festival in Brighton in 1978, a handwritten note from Gaberbocchus's art director Gwen Barnard to the Festival organizer Richard Cupidi, a Festival programme sheet, and booklists of Gaberbocchus titles.

Gaberbocchus publications include: (7) Stefan Themerson, Factor T. Black Series No. 8-9, 1956. First edition. Stapled, 16.5 x 12 cm, 68 pp. Cover with die-cut window, drawings by Franciszka Themerson. (8) Themerson & Themerson. Semantic Divertissements, 1962. Softcover, 33 x 24.2 cm, 16 pp. Text by Stefan Themerson, drawings by Franciszka Themerson. (9) Europa. A poem by Anatol Stern, 1962. Staple-bound, 23 x 21.5 cm, 28 pp. First English edition of the 1929 original, illustrated with photographs from the film 'Europa' made in 1930 by the Themersons. (10) Stefan Themerson, Cardinal Pölätüo, 1961. Hardcover, 19.5 x 12.5 cm, 184 pp. With loose inlaid Gaberbocchus press material. (11) Stefan Themerson, General Piesc or the case of the forgotten mission, 1976. Softcover, 21 x 13.7 cm, 54 pp. With age spotting on cover and along paper edges. (12) Henri Chopin, The Cosmographical Lobster, 1976. English translation of the original 1966 edition. Softcover, 22.8 x 15.2 cm, 40 pp. All books with moderate age toning to cover, interiors fine. (total 12)