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[Wheat, Carl I.]. A LETTER FROM LAFAYETTE. San Francisco: Printed for Carl I. Wheat at The Grabhorn Press 1945. Lg. 4to. 10pp. With a mounted facsimile of a 1-page autograph letter from Lafayette, dated January 6, 1826 (upon his return home from a tour of the United States. Blue printed wrappers, stabbed & tied at inner margin. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY, #419.
No author. A SIXTEENTH CENTURY LETTER FROM ITALY Being an Expression of Christmas Wishes From Marjorie and Edwin Grabhorn. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press 1938. 8vo. (8)pp. Printed in red & black in an edition of 150 copies. Self-wrapper, stabbed & tied. Not given a separate number in the Grabhorn Bibliography, but listed in Volume I under “Miscellaneous 1934-1940,” on p. 180.
[Lover, Samuel]. BIRTH OF SAINT PATRICK [Cover Title]. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1935. Folio. (4)pp. Printed on green paper. Edition limited to 190 copies privately printed for Albert M. Bender’s birthday party. Very Good with light creases. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY, #242.
Bagnold, Enid. EARLY POEMS. With an Introduction by R. P. Lister. Andoversford, Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press 1987. 4to. (40),(2)pp. Title printed in red & black, with a woodcut vignette. Edition limited to 175 numbered copies (total printing of 200). Mauve burlap, paper spine label, over patterned boards. Fine.
No author. FOR A BETTER WORLD. [An Extract from the Charter of the United Nations]. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 16803. 4to. (4)pp. Printed in red & black. Edition limited to 400 copies, done as a New Years greeting for Francis and Marjory Farquhar. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY, p. 105.
[Bender, J. Terry (comp.)]. LES ARCHITECTS DU LIVRE. Contemporary Creative French Bookbinding from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan A. Gunst and Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Heller, in an Exhibition by the Stanford University Libraries… September 23 ñ October 20, 1956. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1956. Lg. 4to. (32)pp. Title printed in red & black. Edition limited to 100 copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press for Morgan A. Gunst and the Stanford University Libraries for a joint meeting of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles, on September 9, 1956. Signed on the limitation leaf by Morgan A. Gunst. Stabbed & tied at inner margin, paper wrappers stamped in gilt. Fine. An exhibition catalog of 35 items. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY, #581.
Hubbard, Elbert. LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF EMINENT ARTISTS… and Done Into a Book by the Roycrofters at Their Shop… East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters 1902. Sm. 8vo. 2 vols. (10),166,(2);(10),158,(4)pp. Illustrated with 12 plates. Hand illuminated title pages and initials throughout. Edition limited to 940 numbered sets, each volume signed by its illumina tor. Bound in green ouze suede, spines faded, br own calf labels on spines and covers. Small bookplates on front free endpapers. Tiny gouge to back cover of one volume. Volumes X and XI of the “Little Journeys Series.”
Hernandez, Jose. MARTIN FIERRO. El Gaucho Martin Fierro. La Vuelta de Martin Fierro. Edicion Critica de Angel J. Battistessa. Segunda Edicion. Premio Ricardo Rojas. Illustraciones de Alberto Guiraldes. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Peuser 1958. 4to. xxx,(2),330,(4)pp. Printed in red & black. Profusely illustrated with drawings, a color frontispiece, and a woodcut portrait of the author. In a special presentation binding of hand stitched cowhide. Laid in at front is a calligraphic letter of thanks from “The Amigos of Operation Amigo Argentina” along with numerous signatures. Good with inner front hinge cracked and front end paper loose.
Dillon, Richard H. PERPETUAL MOTION & EMOTION. The Adventures of a Popular Historian. San Francisco & Palo Alto: William P. Wrenden 1966. 4to. (4),14pp. Edition limited to 300 copies printed for the joint meeting of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and the Zamorano Club in September, 1966. Printed brown paper wrapper, stabbed & tied at inner margin. GRABHORN-HOYEM BIBLIOGRAPHY, #2.
Wagner, Henry R. PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF HENRY R. WAGNER. Santa Ana, CA: The Fine Arts Press 1934. 4to. (20)pp. Edition limited to 125 copies. Orig. green printed wrappers, somewhat soiled at edges, and with some small chips. This copy inscribed, “William S. Mason, compliments of H. R. Wagner.” Also with the bookplate of John Haskell Kemble. Compiled by Wagner for private distribution as a Zamorano and Roxburghe Club exchange keepsake. THE FINE ARTS PRESS #18. One of the scarcest imprints of this Orange County fine press.
[Buckler, Benjamin]. SERIOUS REFLECTIONS ON THE DANGEROUS TENDENCY OF THE COMMON PRACTICE OF CARD-PLAYING; Especially of the Game of All-Fours, as It Hath Been Publickly Play’d at Oxford, in This Present Year of Our Lord, MDCCLIV. In a Letter from Mr. Gyles Smith, to His Friend Abraham Nixon… London: Printed for W. Owen… Reprinted for Norman H. Handelsman… Los Angeles: The Plantin Press. 1977. Sm. 8vo. (4),iii,(3)-20,(2)pp. Illustrated with a facsimile plate. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies. Red cloth, gilt. Fine copy. Though initially attributed to Gyles Smith, the pseudonym for Sir William Blackstone, modern scholarship now attributes the work to his friend Benjamin Buckler (1718-1780). “Though ostensibly a comment about card playing at Oxford, it is actually an allegory dealing with Parliamentary debates.”
Simpkinson, Francis Guillermard and Edward Belcher. H.M.S. SULPHUR AT CALIFORNIA, 1837 AND 1839. Being the Accounts of Midshipman… Simpkinson and Captain… Belcher. Edited by Richard A. Pierce & John H. Winslow. (San Francisco): The Book Club of California 1969. xvi,70,(2)pp. Illustrated with 2 maps (one a geologic color frontispiece, one a title-page vignette), and 8 plates (1 in color). Edition limited to 450 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom. Tan linen over decorative boards.
Rapp, Albert. THE ANCIENT GREEKS & JOE MILLER. A Prolegomenon by Nat Schmulowitz. San Francisco: Privately Printed for Members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco 21276. 32,(2)pp. Decorations printed in brown. Title hand-colored in orange. Frontispiece of Democritus. Edition limited to 300 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Tan wrappers printed in brown, stabbed & tied at inner margin. A presentation copy inscribed to Herbert Fahey by Nat Schmulowitz, accompanied by a T.l.s., from Schmulowitz to Fahey, dated May 15, 1958. Anecdotah Scowah, Number Three. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY, #534.
Donner, William Henry. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM HENRY DONNER 1864-1953. San Francisco: N.p 1973. 4to. xv,(3),142,(2)pp. Title & text printed in red & black. Illustrated with a tipped-in frontispiece photo of Donner and 7 other tipped-in photos. Edition limited to 100 copies privately printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Orig. red linen, gilt. Housed in publisher’s cardboard slipcase with paper spine label. Fine copy. Beautifully printed autobiography of this American businessman and philanthropist.
[Garthwaite, W. B.]. THE HISTORY OF TYPE & PRINTING IN EASY LESSONS… San Francisco: Imprinted for Mackenzie & Harris, Inc 1948. Folio (13-1/4″ x 9-1/2″). Tan wrappers printed in red & black, containing 5 loose broadsides printed in gray, red & black for the advertising series, “From Gutenberg to Grabhorn.” Edition limited to 3,000 copies. Fine. GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY, #463.
Bandini, Ralph. TIGHT LINES. With Pen and Ink Sketches by the Author. Los Angeles: Tight Lines Publishers 1932. (10),226pp. Illustrated with numerous photos, text woodcuts, and endpaper maps. The Deluxe Edition of 500 numbered copies, in a special “wallet” full tan calf binding, stamped in green, with a fighting swordfish on front cover. T.e.g. Some minor rubbing at edges and an old 1″ repair at head of spine (this portion had once been cracked off). This copy inscribed by Ralph Bandini below his tipped-in frontispiece portrait.
No author. WESTERN DISCOVERIES [Caption Title]. Reprinted from the American Museum, or, Universal Magazine, for May, 1792. San Francisco: Printed for members of the Chit Chat Club by Francis P. Farquhar 1939. Folio. (4)pp. Printed on light tan paper. Edition limited to 50 copies. Fine GRABHORN BIBLIOGRAPHY, #328.
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