Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1968. 8vo. paper wrappers. (iv), 44 pages. Contains "The Private Press: Its Essence and Recrudescence" by Archer and "Tradition and the Printers of Southern California" by Ritche. Covers faded. READ MORE about MODERN FINE PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 108091
Napa, CA: Gordon Williams, 1983. small 12mo. cloth. vi, 60, (4) pages. Second edition corrected, limited to an unspecified number of copies. Handset in 10 and 12 pt. Bembo types and printed on Warren's Olde Style paper with a Washington hand press. Foreword by Gordon Williams, with 2 line drawings as illustrations. READ MORE about POCKET KNIVES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 62395
Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1980. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label, acetate dust jacket. 87, (9) pages. First edition, one of the 100 numbered hardbound copies, signed by the author on colophon. Appendix includes a "copious collection of germane documents assembled by the author. Prospectus for the Jataka Tales laid in. READ MORE about THE GREAT NAROPA POETRY WARS
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 127186
Berkeley: Wingbow Press, 1978. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, original glassine wrapper. 92, (4) pages. Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by the author. Minimal shelf wear. READ MORE about HELLO, LA JOLLA
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 97899
(Saratoga, CA): Instress, 1998. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A collection of poetry. Color illustration on title. READ MORE about EX-FINITE: DANGER'S DANCER
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 133547
Los Angeles: Hulbert & Barrett Books, 1982. small 4to. quarter cloth with label pasted on spine and paper-covered boards. (iv), 8 (2) pages. Printed by offset lithography in an edition limited to 500 copies and signed by the author. Designed by Bonnie Ruth Barrett and set in Trump Medieval by RS Typographics. Bound by hand at Hulbert & Barrett Books. Poetry. READ MORE about CALIFORNIA HOURS
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 62870
Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1988. small 4to. dark brown cloth spine with lighter woven cloth-covered boards on which is printed a reproduction of the Ramage Press. 23, (3) pages. Limited to 300 copies. A history of the first medical book printed in California, the Botica General De Los Remedios Esperimentados. This book was printed by California's first printer, Agustín Vicente Zamorano on a Ramage wooden press imported from Boston in 1834. With a woodcut..... READ MORE about THE ZAMORANO PRESS AND THE BOTICA, CALIFORNIA'S FIRST MEDICAL BOOK
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 62379
Tucson: El Signo de los Arboles Caidos, 1982. tall 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 21, (3) pages. Printed by Richard Hoffman and issued for the friends of Fay and Larry Powell at New Year's. READ MORE about FAREWELL TO THE ENCINAL
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 44116
Berkeley: Peacock Press, 1964. 12mo. paper wrappers. (x), 94 pages. Reissue of the 1911 first edition. The author sites various sources in Egyptian writings to describe the library as it existed in ancient Egypt. READ MORE about SOME OLD EGYPTIAN LIBRARIANS
Price: $14.00 Order nr. 10264
With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1961. small 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. x, 156, (2) pages. With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. First edition, limited to 1300 copies of which this is one of 1000 of the trade edition. A bibliography of books designed and printed by Ritchie. With a number of title page reproductions. Name in ink at top of free endpaper. Minor foxing to the edges of the textblock. READ MORE about WARD RITCHIE PRESS AND ANDERSON, RITCHIE, AND SIMON
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 7468
With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1961. small 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. x, 156, (2) pages. With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. First edition, limited to 1300 copies of which this is one of 1000 of the trade edition. A bibliography of books designed and printed by Ritchie. With a number of title page reproductions. Spine label has been partially chipped away. READ MORE about WARD RITCHIE PRESS AND ANDERSON, RITCHIE, AND SIMON
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 96750
With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Clifton: Bookman Publications, Inc., (1992). 8vo. cloth-backed boards. (viii), 171 pages. With a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. First edition. The autobiography of this legendary California bookman. He recalls his private press work, his friends Lawrence Clark Powell, Jake Zeitlin, Paul Landacre, Robinson Jeffers, W.A. Dwiggins and many others. Illustrated. READ MORE about YEARS TOUCHED WITH MEMORIES
Price: $38.00 Order nr. 40361
Chula Vista, CA: Denrich Press, (1910). large 12mo. paper-covered boards. 94 pages. First edition thus. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper to May Wise, with her bookplate on front pastedown, signed by Florence England Nosworthy. A book of aphorisms on spiritual themes and daily life. Some stains on covers, worn at extremities. X-Lib, with a few markings on edges. READ MORE about PERSPECTIVES OF THE SPIRIT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 62600
Pasadena, CA: Ampersand Press, 1952. small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. (vi), 19, (3) pages. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena. Poems written by the author "twenty years ago, when I had more of the urge to sing. I send them out as a friend sends a letter to another." Half-title page lacking. READ MORE about MORE WHISPERS & CHANTS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 63232
Pasadena, CA: Ampersand Press, 1952. small 8vo. folded sheet. (4) pages. Advance sample, printed February, 1952, by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Folded sheet with title page and a poem. READ MORE about MORE WHISPERS & CHANTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63863
(Greenbrae, CA): The Allen Press, 1982. small 4to. cloth, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. NOTE: This is for Volume One only. Limited to 140 copies. Volume One, Drama One, Agamemnon. The first drama of The Orestian Trilogy, the author's masterpiece. The first of a two volume set, the second published in 1983. A comprehensive introduction by Mark Livingston. Prospectus laid in. READ MORE about THE ORESTIAN TRILOGY
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 129071
Kentfield, CA: The Allen Press, 1965-70. various sizes. Four A.L.s. from Lewis Allen to collector and librarian Richard Schimmelpfeng. The letters are dated September 13, 1965, March 24, 1968, July 8, 1969, and Octobe 27, 1970. They discuss the availability of Allen Press publications, fulfillment of orders, letters of regret concerning sold-out items, and comments on Schimmelpfeng's works. Also included is a historical sketch and a check list of works published by the Allen Press..... READ MORE about Four letters from Lewis Allen to Richard Schimmelpfeng
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 132834
Greenbrae, CA: The Allen Press, 1982. small 4to. decorated cloth, top edge cut, other edges uncut, paper spine label. 121+(1) pages. Limited to 140 copies. Introductory note. Decorations from C. Contardus, Comentarii, Rome (1573). The travels of Dickens through Genoa, Venice, Naples, Rome, and Florence. Running headings on each page in two colors, varying with the area of Italy considered. Prospectus laid in. READ MORE about PICTURES FROM ITALY
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 129072
(Kentfield, CA: The Allen Press, 1971). 4to. decorated paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 140 copies. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Introduction by Francis Carmody. Illustrations by Michèle Forgeois. Originally published in 1957 by Les Editions de Minuit, Paris. Designed, hand printed, and bound by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. Prospectus laid in. READ MORE about JEALOUSY
Price: $375.00 Order nr. 131194
Greenbrae, CA: The Allen Press, 1987. 4to. decorated cloth, top edge cut, other edges uncut, clamshell box. 98 pages. Limited to 145 copies. Includes "The Squire's Daughter," "The Queen of Spades," "The Blizzard," and "The Shot." Wood engravings by John DePol. Binding cloth an 18th century design printed by the silk-screen process in Switzerland. Prospectus laid in. Introductory biographical sketch of Pushkin. READ MORE about FOUR STORIES
Price: $500.00 Order nr. 134450
Berkeley, CA: Archetype Press, 1939. folio. cloth with printed design on front cover. 19+(1) pages. Limited to 105 copies, set up and printed on a handpress by Wilder Bentley ("and his faithful spouse, Ellen") on dampened Strathmore Wayside Text for at The Archetype Press in Euclid Court, Berkeley, Ca and issued for private distribution among members of The Arts Club & their friends. Printed in "a bastard version" of Caslon Oldface italic and Goudy Modern..... READ MORE about N'EN PARLONS PLUS!, EXCERPTS FROM DIVERS PAPERS & CHRONICLES OF THE ARTS CLUB, 1937-1938
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 62298
Berkeley, CA: The Arif Press, 1981. 12mo. cloth, label on spine. 16, (2) pages. Limited to 150 copies. Translated from the French by P.H. Hanson. Frontispiece, facsimile of 1784 engraving. READ MORE about MEMNON OR HUMAN WISDOM
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 123982
Berkeley, CA: The Arif Press, 1975. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut, paper front cover label. (12) pages. Limited to 125 copies. Presentation by printer Wesley Tanner on front free endpaper. READ MORE about CREDO
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 128729
San Francisco, CA: Arion Press, 1989. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. An announcement of three new limited edition publications from the Arion Press. French fold. With order form. READ MORE about Announcement of Limited Edition Books from the Arion Press
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 129648
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1976. oblong 4to. paper wrapper. two sheets folded. Prospectus only. Limited to 200 copies signed by the author. Colored illustrations that are reminiscent of the Nuremburg Chronicle executed by the author with linoleum blocks and in many different colors. Offsetting of engraving. READ MORE about Prospectus for A TRAVEL BOOK
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 129352
