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Tassos, Alevizos Anastasios (engraver). ARISTOPHANES LYSISTRATA. [Title in Greek]. Athens: Aspiota-Elka, 1978. 340 by 250mm (13½ by 9¾ inches). Original paper wrappers; 154 pp. With thick paper dust jacket. Limited edition of 1,500 numbered copies. Printed on Glastonbury antique laid paper. This is number 313 and is signed by Tassos. In Greek. Four-line 1985 inscription (in Greek) to Karl-Heinz Schulmeister. Together with a postcard on stationary of the Cultural Association of the GDR (“Kulturbund der DDR”) with an 11-line inscription (in German) from Schulmeister to Wolfram Körner.
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.
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.
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.
[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.”
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.
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.
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.
[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.
[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.
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.
[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.
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.
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.
Bliss, Carey S. A LEAF FROM JOHN JOHNSON’S TYPOGRAPHIA. With an Introduction by Carey S. Bliss. Pasadena, CA: The Rounce and Coffin Club 1982. Tall 8vo. (6),6pp. With an original leaf from JOHN JOHNSON’S TYPOGRAPHIA, 1824. Edition limited to 200 copies printed for members of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs. Gray cloth stamped in black, paper label on front cover. Occasional light foxing. DISBOUND AND DISPERSED, #174.
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.
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.
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.”
No author. CELESTE DELL’ANNA. Milan: Geison International 1991. Tall 4to. 81,(3)pp. Profusely illus. with tipped in color plates. Edition limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Presentation slip laid in. Brown silk, gilt stamped. Slipcase. The Celeste Dell’ Anna Studio’s trade catalog to promote their work designing “refined environments” for the super wealthy.
Grass, Guenter. MARIAZUEHREN HOMMAGEANMARIE INMARYPRAISE. Fotos Maria Rama. Layout P. J. Wilhelm. Munich: Bruckmann 1973. Sq. 4to. 88pp. Illustrated throughout with photos & drawings (many in color), accompanied by a reproduced hand-written text. Laid in at front in a folder is an original signed etching (180/280) by Guenter Grass. Edition limited to 280 copies. Tan cloth stamped in white. Housed in publisher’s matching cloth slipcase.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. LA PORTE DE MALETROIT. San Francisco: Printed for the Book Club of California by the L-D Allen Press, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France 1952. Sm. 8vo. 60pp. Untrimmed. Half-title and 4 full-page illustrations by Ray Bethers, printed in blue & red, hand illuminated in gold. Edition limited to 300 copies. Limp boards printed in red & blue, orig. glassine wrapper. Enclosed in French style gilt stamped portfolio and matching cardboard slipcase. Ex Bancroft Library copy (one embossed “Bancroft Library” on p. vi), but still a fine copy. With the original prospectus laid in. BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA BIBLIOGRAPHY, #81.
Proost & Brandt, firm. TWEE EEUWEN BRANDT EN PROOST. Een Bijdrage tot de Geschiedenis van de Boekbinerij de Uitgeverij van Bybels en Kerkboeken en den Papierhandel in Nederland Naar Gegevens Geput Uit de Archieven van J. Brandt & Zoon Sinds 1742 en P. Proost & Zoon Sinds 1Amsterdam: J. Brandt & Zoon 1942. 4to. xvi,288pp. Index. Profusely illus. with photos, facsimiles, color plates (1 folding), maps, and a folding genealogical table. Orig. cream cloth stamped in black over purple boards. Fine.
Beck, Melissa (comp.).. THE TYPOGRAPHIC BOOKPLATES OF WARD RITCHIE. Foreword by Ward Ritchie. Santa Monica, CA: Kenneth Karmiole 1990. (112)pp. Illustrated with 90 examples of bookplates. Edition limited to 300 copies. Black cloth, gilt, over decorative boards. Signed on the half-title by Ward Ritchie. Fine.
Lewis, Oscar. THE FIRST 75 YEARS. The Story of the Book Club of California 1912-1987. San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1987. 8vo. 54,(2)pp. Edition limited to 1200 copies printed at the Arion Press. Green cloth over rose boards. Fine.
White, Gerald T.. BAPTISM IN OIL. STEPHEN F. PECKHAM IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1865-66. San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1984. Tall 4to. 140pp. Illustrated. Edition ltd. to 500 numbered copies, designed by Ward Ritchie. Dark blue cloth over chartreuse boards. Fine. Publication #177.
McGinty, Brian. Haraszthy at the Mint. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1975. Red cloth over decorative boards; 60, [2] pp. 10 illustrations. Edition limited to 300 copies. Number 10 in the “Famous California Trials” series. Very good with faint markings to covers.
Wakeman, Geoffrey. THE PLOUGH PRESS 1967–1981. Fifteen Years of Printing in a Loughborough Garage. Kidlington, Oxford: The Plough Press 1982. (6),46,(2)pp. Printed in black, blue & brown. Numerous illustrations, plus 14 tipped-in samples (some folding) from the press, and 5 paper samples. Edition limited to 120 numbered copies. Blue morocco, gilt, over marbled boards. Fine.
Russell, Richard (ed.). A HISTORY OF THE MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE PRESS 1934-1984. Andoversford, Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press 1984. 4to. (10),52,(2)pp. 5 tipped-in leaves of the Marlborough College Press re-printed in the same types as the originals, plus 2 folded broadside facsimiles in a rear pocket. Edition limited to 220 numbered copies. Blue cloth, gilt, over patterned boards.
Harris, Elizabeth M.. THE ART OF MEDAL ENGRAVING [With an Introduction by Henry Morris]. A Curious Chapter in the Development of 19th Century Printing Processes. Newton, PA: Bird & Bull Press 1991. 4to. 40,(2)pp. Illustrated with plates and (16)pp. of facsimiles. Bound in is an original double-page leaf from Achille Collas’s TREASOR DE NUMISMATIQUE ET DE GLYPTIQUE… 1834-58. Edition limited to 230 numbered copies. Blue patterned silk, leather spine label. Very good. Residual staining from original leaf. DISBOUND AND DISPERSED, #198.
Murray, John. PRACTICAL REMARKS ON MODERN PAPER. With an Introductory Essay by Leonard B. Schlosser. North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press 1981. 120pp. Edition ltd. to 300 copies printed on “Hahnemuhle Ingres-Buttenpapier.” 1/4 Oasis leather and tips over marbled boards. Fine.
Morris, Henry. [GUILFORD & GREEN]. [PART I]: A VISIT TO HAYLE MILL. Written from Notes Made During a Visit to J. Barcham Green, Limited.[PART II: DEAR FRIEND AT HOME: Letters Written by Nathan Guilford on a Journey to Kentucky in 1814. With an Introduction… North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press 1970. 2 parts in one. (2),88,(4)pp. With facsimiles (2 folding), a mounted portrait, and woodblock illustrations printed in one or two colors. Edition ltd. to 210 numbered copies. Maroon morocco over patter ned boards. This copy without the outer paper wr apper with pocket containing a paper specimen that was to be used for the cover of the book but found unsuitable (as published). With an Introduction by Whitfield Bell, Jr.
Montherlant, Henry de. LES CELIBATAIRES. Photographies de Georgette Chadourne. Paris: Librairie Plon -1948. 4to. (4),242,(4)pp. With numerous photographic illus. Edition ltd. to 3000 machine-numbered copies. Bound in 1/2 green polished calf over marbled boards with the orig. printed wrappers preserved.
Bell, Sir Charles. MANUSCRIPT OF DRAWINGS OF THE ARTERIES. New York: Medicina Rara 1971). 4to. (72)pp. facsimile of an original holographic manuscript, circa 1820. Illustrated with 12 color plates (one folding). Edition limited to 300 deluxe copies bound in full red morocco (from a total printing of 2,800). ISSUED WITH: Jones, Harold Wellington. CHARLES BELL AND THE ORIGIN OF HIS ENGRAVINGS OF THE ARTERIES. A 12pp. pamphlet in brown wrappers, reprinted from the Charles Bell number of “Medical Life”, 1937. Both items housed in publisher’s cardboard slipcase. Fine.
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