[Rarebooks] FS: Sci-Fi book catalog signed by Bradbury, Bloch, etc.

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(SCIENCE FICTION) The Book Sail [business name]. THE BOOK SAIL 16TH 
ANNIVERSARY CATALOGUE: Literature Art and Artifacts That Will Forever Remain Among the 
Undead. Orange, CA: McLaughlin Press. 1984. 8vo. Unpaginated (approx. 300 
pages containing 639 catalog descriptions of books for sale). Illustrated with 2 
color plates and numerous black and white facsimiles and photos. Special 
edition limited to 100 copies for presentation by the publisher (out of a total 
printing of 1,550), numbered “in Martian numerals, using an ink compound 
containing human blood.” Red over red & black pictorial cloth, front cover with a 
mounted holographic photo of Elvira, “Mistress of the Dark.” This copy is signed 
on separate leaves by Ray Bradbury and Robert Bloch (who each have printed 
contributions to this catalog), as well as the illustrator Rowena and Elvira. A 
20pp. pamphlet, “The Dandelion Chronicles,” signed by the author, William F. 
Nolan, is in a rear pocket. Laid in is an errata slip and a silver printed 
broadside from the “Ministry of Oral Tradition.” Fine.     $375.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
1,000 copies were printed in paper wrappers, 400 in cloth, and 100 reserved 
for the publisher, specially numbered in Martian numerals and 50 in 
half-leather for presentation to the contributors.

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