Santa Rosa: Nawakum Press, 2010. Cranmer, Keith. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 20 deluxe copies, quarto size, [32] pp., signed by Robert Bly, with extra print signed by Cranmer, in a clamshell box. An early publication by the Nawakum Press run by the inimitable David Pascoe, whose name has become..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1965. Elkus, Richard J. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 83 of 487 copies, elephant folio size, approximately [100] pp., signed by Richard Elkus, Robert and Edwin Grabhorn, with prospectus. The last major book of the Grabhorn Press, "Alamos" is a collection of photographs by Richard Elkus..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2006. Ulriksen, Mark. Hardcover. Book: large octavo, 11 by 7-1/2 inches, 172 pages plus fourteen sewn-in leaves of varying widths for the illustrations. The types are Cushing Old Style and Stationers Gothic Bold, printed by letterpress. The paper for the text is Zerkall Book Laid..... More
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San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2006. Ulriksen, Mark. Hardcover. Book: large octavo, 11 by 7-1/2 inches, 172 pages plus fourteen sewn-in leaves of varying widths for the illustrations. The types are Cushing Old Style and Stationers Gothic Bold, printed by letterpress. The paper for the text is Zerkall Book Laid..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [Yolla Bolly Press], 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, folio size, 91 pp., in slipcase. An essay on early California winemaking, first published in Adelaide, Australia, in 1885, with reproductions of historical photographs, wine industry trade cards and labels illustrating the..... More
Beverly Hills, California: Morpheus International, 1994. Huss, Judson. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 150 copies of the first printing, folio size, 95 pp., signed by Huss, in slipcase, with accompanying limited edition print signed and numbered by Huss. Judson Huss (b. 1942) has been collected by a "group..... More
San Francisco: (Printed at the Yolla Bolly Press for) The Book Club of California, 1991. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, quarto size, [112] pp., inscribed by the author. A biography and bibliographical checklist of George Wharton James (1858-1923). James was the author of over twenty major books..... More
San Francisco: Industrial Indemnity Company, 1955. Adams, Ansel. First Edition. Wraps. Octavo size, 26 pp. The fascinating history of the land and building at 155 Sansome, commissioned by the Industrial Indemnity Company. Written by noted San Francisco historian Oscar Lewis (1893-1992, not to be confused with the New York anthropologist..... More
Stuttgart: J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1981. Hardcover. Nine volumes (complete), all first printings (1981-1986), octavo size, approx. 4250 pp., with accompanying booklet, all text in German. Karl Löwith (1897-1973), student of Husseri and Heidegger, "was one of the most prolific German philosophers of the twentieth century" (n.b., from Wiki). "His main..... More
Newton, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies, quarto size, 107 pp., with prospectus and related ephemera. "Recollections" is a memoir of the remarkable bookbinder, Bernard C. Middleton (1924-2019), a skilled binder as well as a prolific writer on the techniques of the craft;..... More
[Rio de Janeiro]: Nova Fronteira Memoria Brasileira, 1980. Hardcover. Folio size, 124 pp., inscribed by Claudio Arrau. A little-known work on the great coffee plantations of the nineteenth century in the area around Rio de Janeiro. Coffee first started to appear in the area around 1760, and by 1822 there..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 243 pp. This one of the "Oxford Science Publications"; per the Foreword: "this book [is] an important contribution to the nature-nurture controversy." Replete with charts and graphs, with a substantial Reference section at the rear. ___DESCRIPTION..... More
Athens: Ohio University Press, (1977). Hardcover. Octavo size, 239 pp. "The themes which Shestov pursued with insistent polemical force and passion in his later works...are partially develolped in 'All Things Are Possible' and 'Penultimate Words'. These books are characterized in the main by Shestov's developing philosophy that there must be..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Ltd., 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, octavo size, 328 pp. Francis ["Frank"] Sydney Smythe (1900-1949), was a renowned moutaineer "who climbed extensively in the Alps and also made several important Himalyan expeditions, including the first ascent to Kamet" (n.b., Neate, p. 140). This was..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2015. Hardcover. 11-1/2 by 8 inches, 308 pages. The types are Cycles and Arepo, designed by Sumner Stone. The paper is Mohawk Superfine. The offset lithography was done under the supervision of Susan Schaefer. The binding is full cloth over boards with endpapers printed by..... More
Royal Oak, Michigan: Haffner Press, 2000. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 89 of 100, octavo size, 569 pp., signed by Jack Williamson. John Stewart "Jack" Williamson (1908-2006) was a writer whose career spanned decades; continuing to write into his nineties, he won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards during..... More
San Francisco: The Lantern Press [printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1927. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 203 of 500, quarto size, 29 pp. "For Whispers & Chants" is a collection of poems by influential Los Angeles bookseller and poet Jake Zeitlin (1902-1987), who worked as a rare books dealer..... More