[Oakland, California]: The Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, 1937. Uhl, Kathryn. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, quarto size, 54 pp. This publication by the Eucalyptus Press, based in Mills College, is a series of letters written by Mary Atkins, founder of the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852, which would..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club [printed at the Press of William E. Rudge's Sons, under the direction of Bruce Rogers], 1944. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 540 of 1100, folio size, 203 pp., signed by Bruce Rogers. The first book published by the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Baron of..... More
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San Francisco / New York: The Arion Press / Grove Press, 2006. Wiley, William T. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Artist book: Number 68 of 300, elephant folio size, [67] pp., signed by William T. Wiley, with prospectus and invitation to the publication party. Trade book: octavo size, 365 pp. Samuel Beckett..... More
[San Francisco]: [The Book Club of California, printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1927. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Vellum. No. 185 of 250 copies, duodecimo size, 45 unnumbered pp., with slipcase. "The Gentle Cynic" is a translation of the Book of Ecclesiastes, the title of which is a Latin transliteration of..... More
(France): Trianon Press, 1957. Blake, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 219 of 506, Atlas Folio size, 82 pp. In his "Life of William Blake" (1863) Alexander Gilchrist warned his readers that Blake "neither wrote nor drew for the many, hardly for work'y-day men at all, rather for children and angels;..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club [printed at the Thistle Press], 1968. Miller, Edgar. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 65 pp., signed by Edgar Miller, with LEC Monthly Letter. The Book of Ecclesiastes, part of both the Christian Old Testament and the Hebrew Bible, offers..... More
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Northridge, California: Santa Susana Press, Northridge University Libraries, 1978. Blanco, Amanda; Burkhardt, Hans. Limited Edition. Folio in a case. No. A. P. 2 of 36 numbered copies and an unknown number of artist proofs, this the publisher's copy (Norman Tanis), quarto size, 28 leaves, signed and inscribed on the colophon..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed at the Allen Press], 1946. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, octavo size, [68] pp. "The publication of the most famous of all documents relating to the Donner Party," published at the centennial of the author's original accounting of the tragic..... More
Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, (1992). Limited Edition. Leather. One of 17 bound in inlaid Oasis leather, folio size, 227 pp., signed by David Butcher and Dame Joanna Jamieson. This work serves the dual purpose of being a bibliography of the work produced by the Stanbrook Abbey Press for over..... More
London: The Argonaut Press, 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 628 of 975 copies, quarto size, [318] pp. Sir John Chardin (1643-1712) was a French merchant and traveler; the publication of the first volume of his "Voyages du chevalier Jean Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l'Orient" simultaneously in French..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., (1935). Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 1048 total pp., with fold-out map. The fur trade in the American West was an extensive economic vernture that brought many families to form settlements there, and strongly impacted the way of life of numerous Native Americans..... More
San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press for Leon Gelber and Theodore Lilienthal, 1936. Starr, Judson. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 200 copies, quarto size, [16] unnumbered pp., with holiday card and ms translation slipped in. An edition of this Christmas poem by Canadian poet Louis Frechette (1839-1908) the poet-laureate..... More
San Francisco: The Limited Editions Club, printed by Taylor & Taylor, 1961. de Frietas, Lima. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500, quarto size, 401 pp., signed by Lima de Freitas, with LEC Monthly Letter and announcement. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) (1857-1924) was an English novelist and..... More
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 926 copies, octavo size, 76 pp., printed by Bruce Rogers. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer who wrote stories and novels that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutible universe; he often brought..... More
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 120 pp. As the author wrote in his preface in May of 1940, from his home in Marblehead, Massachusetts, "White sails no longer dot the horizon on all our coasts where only twenty-five years ago they formed an almost never-ending..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Parker, Arvilla. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, quarto size, 107 pp. Nicholas Dawson (1819-1903), the partly self-educated schoolteacher infected with wanderlust, spent much of his life travelling on foot across America. His wanderings brought him through Missouri, Louisiana, and Arkansas to Mexico..... More
San Francisco: The Westgate Press [Printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1931. Hardcover. Unnumbered limited edition of 475 copies, octavo size, 124 pp. This edition of de Russailh's tales of his time in San Francisco was printed by the Grabhorn Press, one of the most highly renowned private presses in America..... More
[Monmouthshire]: The Old Stile Press, 2009. Lemaire, Angela. Limited Edition. No binding. No. 3 of 25 copies for sale, folio size, 52 pp. The story begins: "I was present during the Great Plague of 1665, It took away my life," he said. Per the artist, this work, originally produced by..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club [Printed by The Spiral Press], 1939. Marsh, Reginald. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 113 of 1500, quarto size, 404 pp., signed by Reginald March. Dreiser is considered one of American's greatest naturalists for his movement away from the emphasis on the morals of the Victorian..... More
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2008. Lobdell, Frank. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 68 of 275, quarto size, 96 pp., signed by Frank Lobdell, with prospectus and etching signed by Lobdell. Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was one of the most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century: two..... More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1966). Karlin, Eugene. 2nd Printing. Leather bound. Octavo size, 93 pp. Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer, best known for his work on cubic equations and for designing the Jalali calendar; many poems are attributed to him (though with much skepticism..... More
San Francisco: Printed for Private Distribution by H.S. Crocker Company, Incorporated, 1920. Garnett, Porter. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, [22] pp., holiday presentation card from H.S. Crocker Company laid in. A small collection of poems by American writer and conservationist Hildegarde Flanner (1899-1987). This work was written while she was..... More
(Kentfield, California): Allen Press, 1974. Redon, Odilon. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 140 copies, folio size, 90 pp., with prospectus. Although Gustave Flaubert’s (1821-1880) best known work may be "Madame Bovary", he had a deep interest in "The Temptation of Saint Anthony", spending thirty years in research and working countless..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Parker, Arvilla. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies, quarto size, 180 pp. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (1510-1554) was a Spanish conquistador whose expedition from Mexico to modern-day Kansas marked the first European sightings of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River, among other..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1973. Neama, May. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1500 copies, quarto size, 141 pp., signed by May Neama, with LEC Monthly Newsletter and Announcement. A master of letters and wit, French writer Francois-Marie Arouet, best known by his pen name Voltaire, wrote on..... More