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See More... (Grabhorn Press) THE GRABHORN PRESS, A CATALOGUE OF IMPRINTS IN THE COLLECTION HENRY R. WAGNER.
Los Angeles The Ward Ritchie Pres 1938 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 47, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 250 copies, 125 copies for Wagner and 125 copies for the Grabhorn Press. With a five page foreword by Wagner. Presentation on free endpaper "Victor H. Paltsits, Compliments of H.R. Wagner." Some wear to covers. The paperbound version of this catalogue.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 95994

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See More... (Grabhorn Press) Hudson, Hoyt CELEBRATION
A Book of Poems San Francisco Grabhorn Press 1945 8vo. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards (iv), 84, (2) pages
(Magee, 409). This edition is one of 500 copies, published through the assistance of the late Albert M. Bender. Contains 42 poems. Light shelf wear and very light soiling on boards.
Price: $ 12.50 other currencies Order nr. 99478

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See More... (Grabhorn Press) Macaulay, Lord " ON THE DURABILITY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS," A LETTER WRITTEN BY LORD MACAULAY.
San Francisco, CA (Grabhorn Press) 1941 small 4to. cloth-backed blue paper covered boards. (14) pages.
Limited to 50 copies printed on French handmade paper and one copy on vellum for Florence Walter; this is one of the 50 on handmade paper. (Magee 346 - who notes a vellum spine label).
Price: $ 325.00 other currencies Order nr. 105937

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See More... (Grabhorn Press) Magee, David THE BUCCANEERS, A GROVE PLAY BASED ON ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S TREASURE ISLAND.
San Francisco The Bohemian Club (1964) 8vo. cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label, plain paper dust jacket. (xii), 64 pages and a foldout chart showing Grove Plays previously performed.
First edition. With a three page foreword by Magee on why he wrote the play. Printed by the Grabhorn Press.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 96252

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  (Grabhorn Press) NINETEENTH CENTURY TYPE DISPLAYED IN 18 FONTS CAST BY UNITED STATES FOUNDERS, NOW IN THE CASES OF THE GRABHORN PRESS.
San Francisco David Magee 1959 oblong small 4to. cloth- backed decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label. (x) pages followed by 18 leafs of type specimens.
First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies printed at the Grabhorn Press and signed by both Grabhorns (Grabhorn Bibliography 667). A commonplace book in which the Grabhorns have taken 18 fonts of 19th century type and displayed them in a variety of colors and accompanied them by various cuts, ornaments, alphabets, etc. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 17553

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See More... (Grabhorn Press) Sutro, Alfred (editor) THE BATHEASTON PARNASSUS FAIRS, A MANUSCRIPT IDENTIFIED.
San Francisco n.p. 1936 small 4to. quarter cloth with designed paper-covered boards and paper spine label. (vi), 15, (5) pages
Privately printed for Alfred Sutro by The Grabhorn Press in an edition limited to two hundred and fifty copies (Magee 246). Handset in Bauer Bodini on English mold made paper. With a mounted facsimile page following the text. The author's story of his solution to the problem of identifying an eighteenth century manuscript of 26 rhymed couplets with the curious title Bath Sets.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 96130

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See More... (Grabhorn Press) Voris, W.R. NOTES ON SOME EARLY GRABHORN ITEMS TOGETHER WITH SOME MORE OR LESS IMPERTINENT COMMENTS
Tucson, AZ The Desert Press n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers 9 pages
The author wrote these notes in response to reading Henry R. Wagner's "The Grabhorn Press", and most of the notes are comparing the author's collection of Grabhorn Press books to Wagner's collection. Voris comments that he bought out the Grabhorn's printing operation in Indianapolis when the moved to California. Printed at The Desert Press, Tucson.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 100740

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See More... (Grabhorn Press) Wentz, Roby THE GRABHORN PRESS, A BIOGRAPHY.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1981 4to. two toned cloth. plain paper dust jacket. (x), 151 pages.
Limited to 750 copies printed by the Grace Hoper Press. Illustrated history of this famous California press. Illustrated.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 8322

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See More... (Grabhorn Press) Wheat, Carl I. A BIBLIO-LAMENT.
N.P. The Grabhorn Press n.d. oblong 16mo. stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Biblio-Lament by Carl I. Wheat, printed by the Grabhorns for the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. Front wrapper wrinkled at the bottom edge and bottom corner.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 104677

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See More... (Grabhorn Press) Wood, Charles Erskine Scott POEMS FROM THE RANGES
San Francisco The Lantern Press 1929 8vo. paper-covered boards, paper spine label (vi), 32, (2) pages
(Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1915-1940, #121) Limited to an edition of 450. This collection of 22 poems was printed by the Grabhorn Press in Deepdene type. The woodcut frontispiece is by Ray Boynton. Some of the poems were originally published in "The New York Evening Post Literary Review" and "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse." Minor cover rubbing.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 95221

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See More... (Grabhorn Press) Zeitlin, Jake FOR WHISPERS & CHANTS.
San Francisco The Lantern Press 1927 tall 8vo. boards. Frontispiece; (iv), 20, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. The book was printed at the Grabhorn Press (Heller & Magee no.96) and has a colored frontispiece drawn by Valenti Angelo as was the design on the front cover (Angelo Biblio. p.40). Zeitlin's first book. Also contains a short foreword by Carl Sandburg. Chosen as one of the 50 Best Books of the year by the AIGA. Presentation on free endpaper "To Henry Viets, with grateful remembrances of a day in Boston full of warmth & exciting encounters with books & men. Jake. 7/20/52." With Viet's bookplate. Page 4 has a number of lines added to the poem in ink in Zeitlin's hand.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 22116

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See More... (Grace Hoper Press) Angelo, Valenti VALENTI'S VERSES.
N.P. Zamburghers 1972 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (6) pages.
First edition thus, limited to 125 copies. Printed by the Grace Hoper Press for the Zamorano-Roxburghe joint meeting of 1972. Printed on hand-made paper produced by James Lamar Weygand. The verses are on Bob Grabhorn and other members of the Grabhorn Press.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 22087

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See More... (Grace Hoper Press) (Collection of Four Cards by Sherwood and Katharine Grover)
N.P. n.p. 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 4 1/2" x 6"; 4 5/8" x 6 1/8"; 5 1/2" x 8"; 8 7/8" x 6" single sheet folded in quarters not paginated
Four cards from Sherwood and Katharine Grover of the Grace Hoper Press. The first, from Christmas 1966, has a verse from the flyleaf of a 16th-century prayer book printed on the inside in red and black. The second is from Christmas 1967 and has a verse from the Dictionary of Proverbs in England in XVI & XVII Centuries by M. P. Tilly on the front surrounded by a border decoration with hand-colored accents. The card from 1979 says simply "Greetings from Sherwood and Kate Grover" and has the hand-written inscription, "& all the best for '80". The front has a water colored harbor scene with birds and fishing boats. The last is a death notice for Katharine Carruth Grover dated August 13, 1978 and has a note on the inside signed by "Bill". The enigma of this card is that it wasn't Katharine Grover who died in 1978, but Sherwood. She did not die until 1986. All have only minor wear.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 92635

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See More... (Grace Hoper Press) Grover, Sherwood COMMON PLACE BOOK SIX.
N.P. Aptos & Woodside 1983 4to. quarter cloth, with decorated paper-covered boards. (iv), 47+(1) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 200 copies. This is the sixth Commonplace Book which was an off-again on-again project of James Hammond and Sherwood Grover. A collection of quotes by famous people from various sources and ages, printed in a variety of types. Beautifully illustrated with notes on the types included. Presentation in the back "For Meade & Carbella - us old Grolington originals must stick together, Elwood." Grolington originals refers to the three original homes at Sea Cliff, Ca.; Elwood Grover's, Ling's and Easton's (from whence this copy comes). These owners combined the names and came up with Grolington Way. The name has now changed to Oak Hill Rd.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 57706

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See More... (Grace Hoper Press) Grover, Sherwood FRAGMENT FROM COMMONPLACE BOOK SEVEN.
San Francisco The Roxburghe Club 1987 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 26+(1) pages.
First edition, printed in an edition limited to 225 copies. Published posthumously by the Roxburghe Club and printed by Felicia Rice at her Moving Parts Press. Printed in red and black throughout with some pages bearing the additional blue.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 49667

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See More... (Grace Hoper Press) MIRROUR OF PRYNTYNG
Selections which appear at the heads of some chapters of Typographical Printing Surfaces by Legros and Grant are credited to the Mirrour of Pryntyng, an imaginary book. N.P. (Grace Hoper Press) 1960 12mo. cord-tied stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Printed at the Grace Hoper Press and presented to the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club and the Roxburghe Club in 1960 by Augustus Pollack and Sherwood Grover. Small spot on sixth leaf, wrappers slightly worn at edges.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 95410

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See More... (Grace Hoper Press) Sowers, Roy Vernon MY FRIEND ARISTIDE.
San Francisco Roxburghe-Zamorano Clubs 1984 large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord tied (14) pages
Limited to an edition of 200 copies. Tells the tale of an unwitting accomplice to a literary hoax that appeared in newspapers in 1923. Printing by the Grace Hoper Press for the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs was sponsored by Dorothy Whitnah and Sherwood Grover. Slightly faded on spine.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 63844

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See More... (Grace Hoper Press) Steinbeck, John A LETTER FROM JOHN STEINBECK.
N.P. Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs 1964 4to. cord-tied stiff paper wrappers not paginated
Limited to an edition of 150 copies printed in black and red at the Grace Hoper Press by Sherwood and Katharine Carruth Grover. A keepsake of one of John Steinbeck's letters to Katharine Grover's father, who was a professor at Stanford during Steinbeck's time as a student there. Includes a brief note by Grover explaining why Steinbeck was writing to her father. The letter itself is in regards to a question posed by Professor Carruth about Steinbeck's previous experience writing poetry, and, is, as Grover writes, "a small ray of light on the young Steinbeck, whose ability to think and write was even then discernible" in his humorous reply. Minor shelf wear.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 92630

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See More... (Grace Hoper Press) Zeitlin, Jake and Ward Ritchie. GRANT DAHLSTROM, LXXV. TWO TRIBUTES.
N.P. William P. Wreden 1977 tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (8) pages.
Limited to 275 copies printed by the Grace Hoper Press for the bookseller, William P. Wreden. Issued for a surprise birthday party held for Dahlstrom.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 57885

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See More... (Grover, Sherwood) SHERWOOD GROVER WAS A PRINTER.
Fairfax, CA Arlen and Clara Louise Philpott 1986 8vo. self paper wrappers. (8) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 1050 copies. A remembrance of the printer Sherwood Grover of the Grabhorn Press with essays by Andrew Hoyem, James D. Hammond, and Arlen Philpott. Printed in two colors and includes Grover's pressmark to the Grace Hoper Press.
Price: $ 14.00 other currencies Order nr. 42703

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See More... (Hague & Gill) PRINTED BY HAGUE AND GILL, A CHECKLIST PREPARED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBIT "A RESPONSIBLE WORKMAN" OBSERVING ERIC GILL'S CENTENARY.
N.P. The Regents of the University of California 1982 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 48 pages.
A checklist of Gill's works, posters and one-page job printings omitted, and a lengthy introduction by James Davis. With a list of works typeset by Hague and Gill but printed elsewhere, and a chronology. Illustrated with devices by Gill.
Price: $ 17.00 other currencies Order nr. 47250

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  (Har-Ma Press) Smith, Harold and Alma MESSAGES IN WOOD
N.P. Har-Ma Press (1979) 8vo. cloth 54 pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 103 numbered copies, this being a presentation copy to an unidentified printer with the ink signature of Harold and Alma Smith. Text includes wood engravings by Harold Smith that are accompanied by prose descriptions of the origin of each piece. Ephemera loosely inserted.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 75910

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See More... (Har-Ma Press) Smith, Harold and Alma THE WISE MAN STORIES.
Har-Ma Press (1978) small 8vo. cloth 41+(1) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 100 numbered copies on 12 Point Centaur, "in a corner of the garage, on a minipress made by Harold F. Smith; type set by Alma Smith. Inscribed by the authors to previous owner on front free endpaper, with a personal bookmark laid-in.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 62980

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See More... Hart, James D. FINE PRINTING, THE SAN FRANCISCO TRADITION.
Washington Library of Congress 1985 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 56, (2) pages.
Text of a lecture at the Library of Congress on the history of the fine press in California. Designed by Andrew Hoyem, printed at the Arion Press in an edition of 1000 copies, type designed by Frederic Goudy, binding by Cardoza-James. Illustrated with thirteen plates.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 45769

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See More... Hart, James D. FINE PRINTING, THE SAN FRANCISCO TRADITION.
Washington Library of Congress 1985 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 56, (2) pages.
Text of a lecture at the Library of Congress on the history of the fine press in California. Designed by Andrew Hoyem, printed at the Arion Press in an edition of 1000 copies, type designed by Frederic Goudy, binding by Cardoza-James. Illustrated with thirteen plates. Presentation on free endpaper "To Waring Jones with warm regards, James Hart, Aug. 2, 1985."
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 97110

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