San Francisco: Bookbuilders West, 1999. Hardcover. 176p., alkaline glazed paperstock with running texts and a mix of color and b&w exhibit photography; hardbound in 8x5x8.5 inch openweave grey cloth boards that show some handling wear and soil (a good sign). A sound copy, clean within except for a seller's pencilling... More
Cat.No: 231891
Sacramento: Printed by various members for The Club, 1989. 14 folio leaves of Mohawk Superfine folded to quarto brochures, each "printed by a club member who uses letterpress methods" and all enclosed in a nice 12x9 inch folder of titled boards and a marbled spine. No markings, no wear, a.... More
Cat.No: 210141
![Judaica, including gold & silver ritual objects; early brass and pewter; textiles; Hebrew books and manuscripts; illuminated marriage contracts & Scrolls of Esther from the collection of Tullio Castelbolognesi, Rome, Italy [Part II] sold by his order and from other owners. Public Auction Sale, Thursday Afternoon, February 14 at 1:45 p.m.](/pictures/thumb/184985.jpg?v=1495076979)
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1957. Unpaginated preliminaries, 46p., coated paperstock throughout with scattered b&w exhibit photos in-text, booklet in 6x9 inch stapled printed blue wraps. A bottom-edge dampstain affects every leaf and cover margin, staples are rusting with migration, a fair-to-good copy. Has no markings of any kind, nor... More
Cat.No: 184985
Springfield MA: Springfield Homestead Newspaper Company, Publishers, 1915. Unpaginated, perhaps 32p., printed on various stocks: a heavy (50#?) textured sort, a slick yellowish, and a tissue-guard-type; ads fore, aft and betwixt. 15.5x11 inch plainish printed wraps fastened with four staples as issued, staples begun to rust, spinefold terribly abraded and... More
Cat.No: 164272
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1999. [23p.] 7.25x9.75 inches, illustrated with duotone photos, decorations by Eric Gill and others, very good limited edition of 1100 copies bound in original sewn, stiff, gray, decorated wraps. A memorial publication for the book collector and publisher of Black Vine Press, (1908-1999). Designed... More
Cat.No: 86563
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, Printed for The Book Club of California, 1962. Hardcover. Unpaginated, the limited folio, one of 400, text leaves and plates entirely fine and unblemished by any markings or edgewear; the exterior casing however is mottled with handling of cloth spine and cover edges; upper corner-tips... More
Cat.No: 212436
San Francisco: Printed at Tamal Land Press for The Book Club of California, 1985. Hardcover. 114p., index (5p.), errata and colophon, folio hardcover in a run of 750 copies. Facsimiles in color per originals. Huge item, almost 14x9.5 inches, openweave cloth boards with blindstamped cover image and spine lettering gilt... More
Cat.No: 210746
London: The British Library, 2007. Hardcover. 112p., coated paper with profuse color exhibit photography, captions and running text, first edition 10x7.5 inch black boards gilt in glossy purple dust jacket. Entirely clean and sound, a fine copy. More
Cat.No: 178080
Sacramento: Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press for the Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1950. xiv, 135p., folio hardbound in 12.5x9.5 inch cinnamon-brown buckram titled gilt, top edge tinted, semi-trimmed foredge. title page and chapter heads rubricated in sepia. Largely unopened, and where opened done neatly. One of a.... More
Cat.No: 209820
![[book review of] Nicholas Kis, A Hungarian Punch-Cutter & Printer 1650-1702, by Gyorgy Haiman [by Fernand Baudin]. Fernand Baudin, Gyorgy Haiman, Jack Werner Stauffacher, Gil Parsons.](/pictures/thumb/228216.jpg?v=1534987540)
San Francisco: Gilman D. Parsons, Books c/o The Greenwood Press, 1985. Pamphlet. 12p., pamphlet in 9x6 inch photo-decorated wraps, Stauffacher presswork on Mohawk Superfine. Although Baudin's name appears only on p.12, his estimation of Haiman's celebration of Kis is the bulk of the text here, followed by terminal remarks by... More
Cat.No: 228216
Stockholm: Michaelisgillet i samverkan med Gidlundsförlag, 1983. Hardcover. viii, 494 p., very good hardcover in lightly worn dj. Color facsimile reprint of the early printed book of fables, original Latin text with Swedish transcription and commentary, issued on the work's 500th anniversary. More
Cat.No: 171257
Berkeley: George L. Harding & Roger Levenson at Tamalpais Press, 1976. Hardcover. ix, 26p., 4.5x7.5 inches, foreword, designed and printed by Roger Levinson in an edition of 125 copies for presentation by the Publishers to the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and The Roxburghe Club of... More
Cat.No: 212260
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash for The Book Club of California, 1928. Hardcover. xvi, 13p., letterpress on heavy, watermarked ("J Perrigot Arches MBM"?) paperstock, hardbound in 11x7.5 inch marbled brown cloth boards with leather spine label gilt, every page of text framed in rubricated lines. The spine panel... More
Cat.No: 209986
London: Self-published by the artist? 1909. Leather Bound. 40 leaves, 20 tipped-in erotic bookplates by von Bayros, "Dieses exemplar der einmaligen. Auflage Erhielt die Nr. 315." hand-numbered, previous owner's original bookplate affixed title pagevery good quarter0white vellum over decorative paper boards, five slightly raised bands, gilt titles, decorative endpapers matching... More
Cat.No: 227976
San Francisco: Printed by The L-D Allen Press for The Book Club of California, 1946. Hardcover. 38p., plus an unpaginated sepia facsimile of diary, all printed text on laid-lined paperstock with prelims in three colors; hardbound in 8.5x5 inch figured boards with white cloth spine printed gilt, protected in a.... More
Cat.No: 209952
![Republic or Empire? The Philippine Question [publisher's dummy]. William Jennings Bryan.](/pictures/thumb/212560.jpg?v=1486010198)
Chicago: The Independence Co., 1899. Hardcover. unpaginated, brown mottled cloth boards, gilt dulled, cover corners bumped and exposed, hinges starting, as is. A sampler-dummy of a much larger anti-Imperialist volume, issued to attract subscribers to the final volume. Includes page in rear of handwritten names and addresses of such subscribers... More
Cat.No: 212560
![In Honor of the Sir Walter Scott Centenary. Sir Walter Scott: 1832-1932, A Centenary Address by John Buchan [with] A Forgotten Antiquary by William C. van Antwerp. John Buchan, Oscar Lewis, William C. van Antwerp.](/pictures/thumb/209944.jpg?v=1484090050)
San Francisco: Printed by Johnck & Seeger for The Book Club of California, 1932. Hardcover. Two essays in a single binding: hardbound, quarter-calf spine (dyed burnt orange) titled gilt over 9x5.5 inch printed green boards; illustrated with a tipped-in facsimile letter (printed both sides) and a photographic leaf showing Scott's... More
Cat.No: 209944
Santiago de Cuba: Editorial Oriente, 1990. 281p., illustrated hardcover, 7x4 inches, no dj. Illustrated history of the book around the world (illustrations are B&W, some are photos of mediocre clarity). Includes glossary. More
Cat.No: 123235
Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1956. Hardcover. [86]p., (xliii double-spreads), every leaf decorated in colors, printed damp on Val de Laga; hardbound in 10.5x7.5 inch decorated boards, two sorts of paper with printed spine titling, slipcase in paper over board. Limited issue, 130 copies. One corner-tip bears a minuscule ding, find... More
Cat.No: 210140
San Francisco: Joss Press, 1990. 4p., very good in wire-spiral-bound wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated with black and white images of some of Grabhorn's productions. More
Cat.No: 211648
New York: Granary Books, 2007. 173p., very good softcover. Cutts was the longtime publisher of Coracle Press. More
Cat.No: 214789
San Francisco: designed and printed by Joe D'Ambrosio for The Book Club of California, 2003. Hardcover. 212p., 8.25x11.25 inches, decorated endpapers, illustrated throughout with color photos of the books, signed by the author/artist on title page, fine first edition limted to 350 copies bound in decorative boards and quarter black... More
Cat.No: 211350
Binghamton: University Art Gallery - State University of New York, 1969. Pamphlet. 31p., a dozen or so b&w reproductions and an author portrait photo, text consists of several checklists and a short bibliography. Softbound in 10x8 inch stapled pamphlet wraps, covers have picked up a little handling grime, has bumped... More
Cat.No: 198659
New York: J. F. Taylor & Company, 1903. Hardcover. xvi, 231p., a few facsimile cuts, these illustrations and all text printed on Japan vellum with large-paper margins; hardbound in 10x8 inch papered boards gilt and quarter-vellum spine with titling and rulings gilt. Number 25 of fifty copies so printed and... More
Cat.No: 210579
San Francisco & London: printed at Cambridge University Press with plates printed at Curwen Press for The Book Club of California, 1978. Hardcover. viii, 104p., 9.75x14.75 inches, introduction, index, illustrated with 16 plates, fine first edition limited to 500 copies bound in marbled boards and quarter cloth backing, gilt titles... More
Cat.No: 212719
