London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1950 (1951). Braby, Dorothea. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 370 copies, small quarto size, 271 pp. Per the Bibliography: "The 'Labyrinth' of Comenius is an allegory, in which the world is depicted as a city, and man as a pilgrim. After many vicissitudes - in..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1936. Dean, Mallette. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies, small quarto size, 309 pp., with folding map. This diary, written by the young Lewis Hector Garrard (1829-1887), includes contemporary descriptions of Native Americans, traders, mountain men, with their dress, behavior, and speech, and also..... More
San Francisco: Colt Press, 1940. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of five hundred copies, small quarto size, 119 pp. Mai (ca.1751-1780), was mistakenly known as "Omai" in Britain, and that is how many still think of him today. He was a young Polynesian priest who was brought to England..... More
Burlingame [San Francisco]: Printed [by the Grabhorn Press] for William P. Wreden, 1952. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 (in actuality 75) copies, small quarto size, 94 pp., with prospectus. Francois Rabelais' (ca. 1493-1553) satirical novels of the life of two giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel, have captivated the hearts and..... More
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[San Francisco]: [Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem for the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 1969], 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 150 copies, elephant folio size, 22 pp. A tribute to the incomparable Edwin Grabhorn, who, with his brother Robert, created some of the loveliest of American private press books..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1965. Utamaro, Kitagawa. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, folio size, [36] pp., with original prospectus. The Book Club of California's publication for Christmas 1965. Presents the pictures of a Kitagawa Utamaro (1783-1806), an eighteenth-century Japanese artist that dealt..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1965. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 487 copies, elephant folio size, approx. [100] pp., signed by Richard Elkus, and by both Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. Richard J. Elkus (1911-1999) was an internationally known banker and industrialist who traveled around the world. He spent time in..... More
[Flansham]: [Vincent Stuart], [1934]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 50 copies, quarto size, 28 pp. "The Book of Ruth" has offered inspiration to many printers, with its lovely message of familial devotion and a simple, devout faith in the Hebrew God. This edition was "designed and hand printed by Vincent..... More
Providence, Rhode Island: Ziggurat Press, [1988]. Feldman, Walter. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 15 copies, small quarto size, [32] pp., the foreword signed by him and his embossed seal at the colophon. Walter Sidney Feldman (1925-2017) received numerous awards and critical praise spanning a lifetime achievement over seven decades; his..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894-1895. Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes (complete), small quarto size, approx. 1906 pp. A lovely half-leather set by J.R. Green, this the first illustrated edition. As Mrs. Green wrote in the Preface: "It was a favourite wish of my husband's to see English History interpreted..... More
San Francisco: Published by Jessica Colbert (E. & R. Grabhorn, Printers), 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies (this out-of-series), size, pp. With a lovely illustration on the title page, with no attribution to the artist (sadly), either in the book or the Grabhorn Bibliography. David Magee, author of..... More
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, (1943). Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 of the deluxe edition, quarto size, 52 pp., signed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter. To lovers of fine press books with wonderful wood engravings, the Golden Cockerel Press needs no introduction. This, their second bibliography, was published..... More
Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France: Printed for The Book Club of California by The L-D Allen Press, 1952. Bethers, Ray. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, octavo size, 60 pp., with prospectus. The eleventh limited edition from The Allen Press, and the first book for The Book Club of California printed outside..... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), one of 500 sets (unnumbered), octavo size, 335 total pp. This two-volume set contains the letters of Dame Shirley, in which she recounts her experiences living in a mining camp in California in the mid-nineteenth century. The letters..... More
[New York]: [The Press of Valenti Angelo], [1949]. Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 150 copies, small quarto size, 22 pp., signed by Valenti Angelo, with an extra print of the frontis illustration also signed by Angelo, also with the Press announcement, all in a slipcase. The "Hymn to..... More
Oakland, California: Star Rover House, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 167 pp. The definitive bibliography of the works of Jack London, gives points of first issue identification, facsimiles of title pages, and even scans of bindings. ___DESCRIPTION: Decorative blue cloth with black and ivory, patterned after the binding of..... More
San Francisco: Lawton R. Kennedy, Harold N. Seeger, and Albert A. Sperisen [The Black Vine Press], 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition published by The Black Vine Press, small quarto size, 31 pp., inscribed by Lawton Kennedy. A "very free translation of 'The Miller's Tale'...all critics are warned that..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by John Henry Nash], 1916. Coyle, Ray. Custom Binding. One of 300 copies, quarto size, [14] pp., in a custom binding, with the scarce photograph. Edwin Markham (born Charles Edward Anson Markham, 1852-1940), is best known today for his poetry and some..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, (1985). Chandler, Bruce. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1500, quarto size, 67 pp., signed by Bruce Chandler, with slipcase and LEC Club Letter. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer who, despite not being fluent in English until his..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed by The Grabhorn Press for The Colt Press, 1959. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, quarto size, 47 pp. Two of Mark Twain's lesser-known (and we believe neglected) short stories about cats, for whose company he had a preference over that..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by The Grabhorn Press], 1923. Lange, Dorothea; H. Von Schmidt. Limited Edition. Leather bound. One of 400 copies, quarto size, 140 pp., in a deluxe binding, with slipcase. A tribute to Oscar Weil (1839-1921), born in New York and educated as a...... More
London: Cresset Press [Printed by Bernard H. Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press], 1928. Gaskin, Joscelyne. Limited Edition. Vellum. One of 250 copies, folio size, 207 pp. The first book published by the philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Baron of Verulam and Viscount Saint Alban. This collection of essays..... More
(Malvern, Worcestershire): Belmont Hall, (2017). Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 50 copies, folio size, [102] pp., with linocuts by the artist-printer, Andrew Judd, in jacket and with slipcase. A lovely book by printer and artist Andrew Judd (1948-2024). He named his studio "Belmont Hall" wherein he produced limited editions which..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1947. 4th Printing. Hardcover. The fourth printing of the first edition, duodecimo size, 280 pp. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (1904-1986), friend of both W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender, was living in Weimar Germany and witnessed the rise of Nazism. It was while there that we wrote..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club [printed by The Gallery Press], 1952. Ward, Lynd. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 1500 copies, folio size, 171 pp., with glassine, slipcase, and LEC Monthly Letter. Believed to be the earliest European vernacular epic poem, "Beowulf", although composed likely in the early 8th century CE..... More