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29th Annual Bookbuilders West Book Show - 12.13.1999 Hyatt San Francisco at Embarcadero Center

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 about 29th Annual Bookbuilders West Book Show - 12.13.1999 Hyatt San Francisco at Embarcadero Center

Cat.No: 231891

Price: $15.00

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The 50th Anniversary Keepsake of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club, February 10, 1989

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 about The 50th Anniversary Keepsake of the Sacramento Book Collectors Club, February 10, 1989

Cat.No: 210141

Price: $30.00

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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.

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 about Judaica, including gold & silver ritual objects; early brass and pewter; textiles; Hebrew...

Cat.No: 184985

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Paper making in Massachusetts in the year of the Panama-Pacific exposition, 1915 by authority of Massachusetts board of Panama-Pacific managers

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 about Paper making in Massachusetts in the year of the Panama-Pacific exposition, 1915 by authority of...

Cat.No: 164272

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Remembering Albert Sperisen: William P. Barlow Jr., Paul Birkel, John W. Borden, Barbara Land, Joanie Morgan, Robert G. Preis, James Robertson, William Matson Roth, Gloria Stuart

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 about Remembering Albert Sperisen: William P. Barlow Jr., Paul Birkel, John W. Borden, Barbara Land,...

Cat.No: 86563

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Ukiyo-e "The Floating World" Illustrated by twenty-eight rare examples of Japanese woodblock prints by seventeen great masters of the art.

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 about Ukiyo-e "The Floating World" Illustrated by twenty-eight rare examples of Japanese...

Cat.No: 212436

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The Allen Press Bibliography, a Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions To Date Including a Checklist of Ephemera

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 about The Allen Press Bibliography, a Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions To Date Including a...

Cat.No: 210746

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Sacramento Illustrated, A Reprint of the Original Edition Issued by Barber & Baker in 1855; With an Introductory Note by Caroline Wenzel

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 about Sacramento Illustrated, A Reprint of the Original Edition Issued by Barber & Baker in 1855;...

Cat.No: 209820

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[book review of] Nicholas Kis, A Hungarian Punch-Cutter & Printer 1650-1702, by Gyorgy Haiman [by Fernand Baudin]

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 about [book review of] Nicholas Kis, A Hungarian Punch-Cutter & Printer 1650-1702, by Gyorgy Haiman...

Cat.No: 228216

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Dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus 1483 / Skapelsens sedelärande samtal 1483

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 about Dyalogus creaturarum moralizatus 1483 / Skapelsens sedelärande samtal 1483

Cat.No: 171257

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Some recollections of the Merrymount Press

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 about Some recollections of the Merrymount Press

Cat.No: 212260

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An Invocation by Ambrose Bierce with a critical introduction by George Sterling and an explanation by Oscar Lewis

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 about An Invocation by Ambrose Bierce with a critical introduction by George Sterling and an...

Cat.No: 209986

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The Diary of Patrick Breen, Recounting the Ordeal of the Donner Party Snowbound In the Sierra 1846-47. Introduction & Notes By George R. Stewart. Decorations by Mallette Dean

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 about The Diary of Patrick Breen, Recounting the Ordeal of the Donner Party Snowbound In the Sierra...

Cat.No: 209952

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Republic or Empire? The Philippine Question [publisher's dummy]

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 about Republic or Empire? The Philippine Question [publisher's dummy]

Cat.No: 212560

Price: $125.00

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El libro su diseño.

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 about El libro su diseño.

Cat.No: 123235

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Jane Grabhorn: Fine letterpress printer, designer, bookbinder and publisher

San Francisco: Joss Press, 1990. 4p., very good in wire-spiral-bound wraps, 8.5x11 inches, b&w facsimiles in a running text. Having married Robert Grabhorn in 1932, Martha Jane Bissell was pressed into service; by 1937, "under her own imprint, Jumbo Press, she printed books, pamphlets, broadsides and ephemera. While the name... More about Jane Grabhorn: Fine letterpress printer, designer, bookbinder and publisher

Cat.No: 211648

Price: $12.00

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A memoir of book design 1969-2000

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 about A memoir of book design 1969-2000

Cat.No: 211350

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John De Pol a Retrospective; February 5 to March 1, 1969

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 about John De Pol a Retrospective; February 5 to March 1, 1969

Cat.No: 198659

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Thomas Deloney, His Thomas of Reading; and Three Ballads on the Spanish Armada, Edited with Notes and Introduction by Charles Roberts Aldrich and Lucian Swift Kirtland

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 about Thomas Deloney, His Thomas of Reading; and Three Ballads on the Spanish Armada, Edited with Notes...

Cat.No: 210579

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Signal: 01, a journal of international political graphics & culture

Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2010. Paperback. 136p., [viii], wraps, color illustrations, 5x7 inches, as new. Includes two articles on Mexican poster art, one on seditious freight graffiti, one on children's playgrounds and more. Includes "The future of Xicana printmaking" an interview with Taller Tupac Amaru and "Mexico 68: the graphic... More about Signal: 01, a journal of international political graphics & culture

Cat.No: 148999

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Themes in aquatint

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 about Themes in aquatint

Cat.No: 212719

Price: $40.00

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Exploring Japanese Books and Scrolls

San Francisco & Mountain View: designed by Jonathan Clark at the Artichoke Press for The Book Club of California, May-October 1999. Hardcover. xi, 156p., 10.5x14.25 inches, decorative endpapers, color frontis, introduction, index, 93 plates and maps, fine first edition limited to 450 copies bound in half blue silk cloth over... More about Exploring Japanese Books and Scrolls

Cat.No: 212695

Price: $75.00

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The Zamorano Club: the first half century, 1928 - 1978

Los Angeles: Printed by Richard Hoffman for The Zamorano Club, 1978. Hardcover. 99p., spot color throughout with numerous vignette reproductions throughout (printed black on pale tint-blocks), hardbound with black cloth backstrip over 12.5x9.5 inch patterned boards, spine gilt-titled; faintest edgewear, entirely sound and clean within, a near-fine copy, one of 200. More about The Zamorano Club: the first half century, 1928 - 1978

Cat.No: 210748

Price: $35.00

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Brief ground; three discourses to be read at the dinner table

Oakland: Never Mind the Press, 1983. [16p.] 8.5x9.75 inches, illustrations, #22/33 hand-made and -bound poetry booklet in sewn wraps, lightly foxed and soiled. Hand numbered and signed by the poet/ DIY bookbinder in pencil. More about Brief ground; three discourses to be read at the dinner table

Cat.No: 132872

Price: $25.00

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