[Nice]: 1961. Booklet: octavo size, 60 pp. plus printed wraps; see below for details on all items, all items in French. The Monaco Grand Prix has been a fixture of racing for decades: "Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile..... More

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1938. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 175 copies, quarto size, [6] pp. This volume is a tribute written during his lifetime to Albert M. Bender (1866-1941), an influential book collector and patron of the arts in San Francisco who supported artists such as Ansel Adams..... More

London: Golden Cockerel Press, [1937]. Lamb, Lynton. No binding. Folio size, [4] pp. Prospectus only for "The Log of The Bounty", with one wood-engraving by Lynton Lamb. ___DESCRIPTION: A single sheet folded once to four pages, announces publication "to be issued in 2 volumes (Vol. I, this autumn; Vol. II..... More

(n. p.): [1930]. Gill, Eric. Limited Edition. No binding. No. 4 of 10, numbered and signed by Eric Gill. The Golden Cockerel Press published an edition of Chaucer's collection of lyric narratives, "The Canterbury Tales", featuring wood engravings by Eric Gill (1882-1940); Gill designed initial capitals to begin each tale..... More

(n. p.): [1925]. Gill, Eric. No binding. Print of Eric Gill's wood engraving, "Girl Sleeping" (P334), on very thin tissue paper; the engraving was created for "Song of Songs" (1925) but not used. The gentle scene is created with delicate line work to delineate a figure in repose; Gill demonstrates..... More

Near Hughenden, Buckinghamshire: Sheed & Ward, 1931. Gill, Eric. No binding. Prospectus only, octavo size, [4] pp. "TYPOGRAPHY" was the first book printed at Pigotts, the partnership between renowned printer and artist Eric Gill (1882-1940) and Rene Hague, his daughter Joanna's husband; this prospectus includes a reproduction of pp. 8-9..... More

San Francisco: [Grabhorn Press], 1931. No binding. One of 400 copies, folio size, [4] pp. A list of "Important Printing Dates" broken into the following headings: Gutenberg to Aitken 1455-1782; Western Printing 1822-1834; Mexican Press at Monterey 1831-1834, Boston Press at Monterey 1834-1845, and California Press 1845-1931. The piece could..... More

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1935. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 200 copies, folio size broadside. Printed by the inimitable Grabhorn Press, this broadside features an excerpt from Robin Lampson's (1900-1978) "Laughter Out of the Ground", a narrative poem about the California Gold Rush. The grandson of a Forty-Niner..... 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

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Morgan, Gwenda. No binding. Octavo size, [4] pp. Prospectus only for "Goat Green", with one wood-engraving by Gwenda Morgan. ___DESCRIPTION: A single sheet folded once to four pages, announces publication "in November" at 30s. for the signed/numbered edition and 8s.6d. for the "Unlimited" edition; octavo..... More

San Francisco: San Francisco Opera, 1976. Casey, Lawrence. Wraps. Program: octavo size, [24] pp., signed by Wallace Stegner; Poster: 25" high. In order to help celebrate the 200th anniversaries of both the nation and the City of San Francisco (which took place on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain..... More

[San Francisco]: [The Grabhorn Press], [1944]. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 100 copies printed, elephant folio size, broadside. Printed by the Grabhorn Press, this Christmas prayer was printed for the Andiron Club, an institution that promoted learning and friendship, and "Romantic Idealism over Naturalism and Realism"; these philosophies were..... More