Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, [1939]. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies, sixteenmo size, 23 unnumbered pp., signed by Valenti Angelo. American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900), best known for his Civil War novel "The Red Badge of Courage", wrote in the Realist and Naturalist styles;..... More
San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1940. Angelo, Valenti. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, octavo size, [52] pp. A collection of poems from David Herbert Lawrence's (1885-1930) New Mexico period, all written during his stay there; with the exception of..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by Andrew Hoyem], 1976. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, folio size, 99 pp., signed by Valenti Angelo, with prospectus and related ephemera, in custom box. Valenti Angelo (1897-1982) was a highly-regarded designer, illuminator, and decorator of books over..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by Andrew Hoyem], 1976. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, folio size, 99 pp., inscribed by Valenti Angelo, with prospectus and related ephemera. Valenti Angelo (1897-1982) was a highly-regarded designer, illuminator, and decorator of books over a career that..... More
New York: The Golden Cross Press [printed at the Timothy Press], 1937. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 100 copies, duodecimo size, [10] pp., inscribed by Valenti Angelo. English writer Charles Reade (1814-1884) published "The Cloister and the Hearth", a historical novel based on the life and family of..... More
San Francisco: Printed by Andrew Hoyem, 1976. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 150 copies, quarto size. John Hoyer Updike (1932-2009), one of only three authors to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, is probably best known today for his "Rabbit" series. He often..... More
New York: The Press of Valenti Angelo, 1949. Angelo, Valenti. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Number 27 of 250 copies, quarto size, [16] pp., signed by Saroyan and Angelo. A short prose piece about Fresno and some of its "hoboes", by novelist William Saroyan (1908-1981), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama..... More
Concord, California: Heron House, 2010. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, quarto size, 161 pp. Valenti Angelo (1897-1982) was a well-known and highly regarded twentieth-century illustrator who did so many books for the Grabhorn Press, the early Limited Editions Club books, and many more over a career..... More
San Francisco: The Lantern Press [Printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1927. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Copy X of the 50 special edition copies, quarto size, 29 pp., signed on the colophon by Jake Zeitlin, Edwin Grabhorn, and Gelber-Lilienthal; additionally, inscribed by Zeitlin on the second front flyleaf; frontispiece numbered..... 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