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 about Accountant's Guide to the Gold Regions
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 Rosenwalk Levy, a philanthropist who... More about Adele Rosenwald Levy: July 19, 1892 - March 12, 1960
[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 about Commonwealth V. Gordon et al. The Opinion of Judge Bok, March Eighteenth, 1949
[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 about A Grab[horn] Bag Original Pages; Pages from Various Books Printed at The Grabhorn Press, San...
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 about Memorial Tributes to Oscar Sutro
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 about A Series of Five New Books to be printed by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco
[San Francisco]: The Grabhorn Press, [ca. 1930]. No binding. Folio size, [4] pp. A scarce piece of Grabhorn Press ephemera, this a prospectus for a book that was never published, intended to be a memorial to architect Willis Polk (1867-1924). Mr. Polk designed numerous buildings in San Francisco, California, including... More about Willis Polk; A Memorial Volume
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 about A Legacy of Hours
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, [1925]. Limited Edition. No binding. One of 50 copies printed for Emerson Knight (total edition 250), folio size, [4] pp. This publication by the inimitable Grabhorn Press is a holiday greeting from Emerson Knight (1882-1960), a landscape developer in Santa Barbara and parts of San... More about A Medieval Letter from Italy; Being an Expression of Christmas Wishes
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 about The Drawings of John Woodhouse Audubon Illustrating his Adventures through Mexico and California...
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. Grabhorn, Jane Bissell and Parker, Arvilla. Limited Edition. Hardcover. unnumbered, one of 550 copies, 8vo - over 7.75” - 9.75” tall, 100 p. This edition of "The Duke of Sacramento", one of the earliest plays printed in California, set from the only known copy... More about The Duke of Sacramento, A Comedy in Four Acts; Reprinted from the rare edition of 1856, to which...
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 about A Tribute to Albert M. Bender
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 about Designs on the Land, Diseños of California Ranchos
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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 about Diseños of California Ranchos, Maps of thirty-seven Land Grants [1822-1846]; From the Records of...
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 about The Book of Ruth
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 about Round Table Sonnets
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 about Voix de Noel
San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press for Ransohoffs, 1940. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 250 copies, elephant folio size, [70] pp. A grand production of seven of Winston Churchill's (1874-1965) impassioned wartime speeches given in 1940, here collected in print for the first time. Heightened by marvelous typographic... More about Address Delivered in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Forty to the People of Great Britain, of...
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 about Broadcast Addresses to the People of Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Russia, and the United States,...
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 about Omai, First Polynesian Ambassador to England; The True Story of His Voyage There in 1774 with...
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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 about M. Fred Loewenstein, 1910-1933 [A Eulogy
(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 about Chronology of Twenty-Five Years, The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 1928-1953
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 about Narrative of Nicholas "Cheyenne" Dawson (Overland to California in '41 & '49, and...
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 about Last Adventure, San Francisco in 1851, Translated from the Original Journal of Albert Benard de...
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 about Pen-Knife Sketches, or, Chips of the Old Block; A Series of Original Illustrated Letters, Written...