San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1939. Stapled. Quarto size, [4] pp. This publication by the renowned San Francisco-based Grabhorn Press is a keepsake from the annual meeting of The American Institute of Accountants in 1939, and contains brief, humorous descriptions of some attractions in San Francisco and California's Pacific Slope... More
San Francisco: [Privately printed by the Grabhorn Press for Lessing J. Rosenwald in April, 1961], 1961. Limited Edition. Stiff boards. One of 500 copies, octavo size, 47 pp. This publication from the inimitable Grabhorn Press prints the eulogies read at the funeral service for Adele Rosenwald Levy, a philanthropist who... More
[San Francisco]: [The Grabhorn Press], 1949. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, folio size, 64 pp. We cannot introduce this book better than to set forth the opening paragraph of the Note: "On March 20, 1949, members of the Vice Squad of the Philadelphia Police Department, at the direction... More
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[San Francisco]: [Grabhorn Press], [1941]. Limited Edition. Folio in a case. One of 200 copies, folio size, seventeen original leaves. The inimitable Grabhorn Press, a San-Francisco based printshop run by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn that produced a plethora of fine press editions, often about California history, produced this portfolio of... More
San Francisco: [Privately printed by the Grabhorn Press for the firm of Pillsbury, Madison, and Sutro], 1935. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, octavo size, 76 pp. Oscar Sutro (1874-1935) was a prominent San Franciscan and member of the San Francisco Roxburghe Club from 1933-1935 and the California Historical... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. Softcover. Quarto size, [8] pp. The Grabhorn Press, a renowned fine press run by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn in San Francisco, produced a remarkable number of books predominately on Western American and California history, always with an astute attention to detail and design;... More
San Francisco: (The Grabhorn Press), 1927. Limited Edition. Self wrappers. One of fifty special copies, duodecimo size, [62] pp. Flora Arnstein (1885-1990) was the daughter of a distinguished pioneer family; from an early age she was drawn to the arts and rebelled against the traditional values and obsession with wealth... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed at the Grabhorn Press], 1957. Audubon, John Woodhouse. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, folio size, [82] pp. John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862), the son of renowned artist and naturalist John James Audubon, joined the search for gold in California in 1849... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Grabhorn, Jane Bissell and Parker, Arvilla. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies (unnumbered), octavo size, 100 pp. This edition of "The Duke of Sacramento", one of the earliest plays printed in California, set from the only known copy then in Ed Grabhorn's possession... 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
San Francisco: The Book Club of California (printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem), 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 500 copies, oblong elephant folio size, [178] pp. The Book Club of California publication number 133, being a sequel to Robert Becker's earlier club publication of 1964 (no. 118). This... More
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed by The Grabhorn Press, 1964. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies, folio size, [122] pp., with original sales correspondence slipped in. In 1961 the U.S. District Court in San Francisco decided to place a large collection of diseños (sketches presented to... More
San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1941. Smyth, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 350 copies, folio size, 95 pp. In this book, Captain F.W. Beechey (1796-1856), captain of the HMS "Blossom", gives his account of a trip to the harbours of San... More
San Francisco: Printed for The Book Club of California by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, (1927). Angelo, Valenti. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 89 of 250, thirty-twomo size, [42] pp. The second edition of The Book of Ruth printed by the Grabhorns, the first being in a larger format and printed the... More
San Francisco: University Club [printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1934. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 100 copies, octavo size, 24 pp., inscribed by Thomas Hamilton Breeze. This collection of sonnets by Thomas Hamilton Breeze was printed by the Grabhorn Press, and each sonnet is addressed to a particular person, making... 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: Ransohoffs [Printed by the Grabhorn Press], 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, elephant folio size, 62 pp. In addition to having been a highly-regarded (albeit somewhat controversial) Prime Minister of England and one who can justly claim a large part of the credit for helping the... More
San Francisco: Colt Press, 1940. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of five hundred copies, large octavo size, 119 pp., with prospectus. 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... More
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[San Francisco]: [Privately printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn], [1934]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 50 copies privately printed, octavo size, 10 pp. This volume is a eulogy, given in Brookline, Massachusetts by Frank W. Cushwa of the Phillips Exeter Academy in 1933; it was privately printed by the Grabhorn... More
(San Francisco): (Printed by Roxburghers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn), (1954). Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 200 copies, elephant folio size, 83 pp. Limited edition of 200 copies "printed by Roxburghers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn" and sold only to members of the Club; included in the Exhibition of Western Books (Rounce... 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
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Nahl, Charles. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, 80 pp. Alonzo Delano (1806 - 1874), who went by the pen name "Old Block", was an American humorist, pioneer town city father, and a California Gold Rush Forty-niner; his sketches of gold rush camp life rivaled... More
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1937. Derby, George H. [John Phoenix (pseudonym)]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 550 copies printed, unnumbered, 8vo - over 7.75” - 9.75” tall, 240 p. John Phoenix, alias John P. Squibob, or George H. Derby (1823 - 1861), was an early California humorist who used... More
San Francisco: Privately printed by the Grabhorn Press, (1941). Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies, quarto size, [7] pp. Albert Maurice Bender (1866-1941), was a noted San Francisco patron of the arts and bibliophile; in addition to being a prominent member of Bay Area book clubs such as the... More