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  Accountant's Guide to the Gold Regions. "Map of the Gold Fields of California, 1849 (reproduced in color) laid in.
San Francisco, California, Grabhorn Press. 1939. 8 pages; stapled. With laid in color reproduction map (from the Ensigns & Thayer map of 1849) folded twice. The map is usually missing, but a nice clean one is in this copy. Evidence of a book having been laid upon the pamphlet, leaving an impression. Printed for the California Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Magee - CATALOGUE OF SOME FIVE HUNDRED EXAMPLES OF THE PRINTING OF EDWIN AND ROBERT GRABHORN, 1917-1960, # 223. Heller & Magee - BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GRABHORN PRESS, page 179 'Souvenirs'. Fine.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 9928
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  Addresses Given at the Opening of the Exhibition of Metropolitan Museum Printing Held in the Pierpont Morgan Library on 24 October 1938
The American Institute of Graphic Arts. 1939. New York.. Cloth. Slight tear in spine. Frontispiece. Addresses were delivered by: Daniel Berkeley Updike; Carl Purington Rollins; William Mills Ivins, Jr.; Bruce Rogers and Henry Watson Kent.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1585
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  All the King's Horses and All the King's Men Couldn't Put Humpty-Dumpty Together Again
(Chicago). The Lakeside Press: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. Title extending from cover to first three printed leaves. No date, but circa 1950. Illustrated wrappers. 9 x 8 inches. An explanation of binding services offered by R.R. Donnelley Co.: Fine binding, repair and hand binding. Three page inset present titled "Any Questions?" which explains the printing techniques and materials used for this booklet. Illustrated with photographs. One corner slightly bumped. 42 pages. Very Good.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 8328
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  The Allen Press Bibliography
The Book Club of California. 1985. San Francisco.. Cloth. 750 copies printed. Title-page engraving by Mallette Dean. Illustrations and decorations are from work produced at The Allen Press, 1939 through 1980. Lewis Allen began experimental printing at the age of 14 on an outdated press from his fath er's newspaper business. This book contains illustrations with descriptions.
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 100.25 | £UK 90.25 | JP¥ 13239] Book number: 1668
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  Bernhard Modern: Specimen Sheets of Paper and Types from Eastern Corporation.
Bangor, Maine, Eastern Corporation. Ill.: Petty, G.H. Specimen shhet (17 x 22) with accompanying card (8 1/2 x 11) within an envelope addressed to Mr. Joseph A. Foster - Scripps College Press. Pencil notes on envelope. Bernhard Modern specimen sheet designed by G.H. Petty of Indianapolis, Indiana. Fine.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 8855
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  Bibles of the Estelle Doheny Collection; The Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library, St. John's Seminary, Camarillo, California, 1952
(Anderson & Ritchie: The Ward Ritchie Press). 1952. (No City).. Wrappers. From the colophon: Catalogue prepared by Reverend James W. Richardson, C.M. J.C.D. Librarian of the Edward L. Doheny Memorial Library, and Reverend F. David Pansini, C.M. S.T.D. Professor of Sacred Scripture, Hebrew, and Greek, St. John's Seminary. An exhibition catalog, done for a meeting of the Southern California Unite of the VCatholic Library Association, October 11th, 1952, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the printing of the Gutenberg Bible. 140 items listed on 24 pages of text. As New.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 2289
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  Biblio: The Magazine for Collectors of Books, Manuscripts, and Ephemera.
Eugene, Oregon, Aster Publishing Corporation.. Complete run of the BIBLIO magazine (29 issues) from July-August 1996 thru April 1999 [Volume 1 #1 - Volume 4 #4]. 80 to 96 pages each. Among the numerous articles are: "Protect Your Collections from Thieves"; "The Electronic World of Book Collecting"; "Book to Film Collecting"; "World War Posters"; "How I Built a Poor Man's Library" by Michael Harrison; "First Aid for Book Pages'; "Andrew Hoyem of Arion Press"; "Oprah Winfrey's Reading Revival"; "Confessions of a Nancy Drew Admirer"; "Big Bad Wolfe, The Writer in Full"; "The People's Library" among many others. Filled with ads of countless bookdealers from the 1990s, along with articles covering numerous fields of collecting, visits to regional bookdealers, auction previews and collectors interviews. A most useful and interesting gathering of information relating to books and the collecting of them. Fine.
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 100.25 | £UK 90.25 | JP¥ 13239] Book number: 10250
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  The Bicentennial of Lithography: A Keepsake for the Members of the Book Club of California
San Francisco, The Book Club of California. 1999, First Edition. Original wrappers house in publlisher's quarter leather slip case. Consists of: Lithography, the Birth of a New Printing Process; Lithographic Stone; Senefelder's Pole Press; Trade Cards of Early British Lighographer; The Lithographic Letterer, all by Michael Twyman; Grapes and Grape Vines of California by Edward Bosqui, by J. Curtiss Taylor; El Dorado on Stone: Books of the California Gold Rush, by Gary F. Kurutz; Lithograph of Gold: The Prints of George Henry Goddard, by Gary F. Kurutz; American Lithographers' Trade Cards, by George F. Fox. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Designed by Peter Rutledge Koch and Richard Siebert and printed by Phelps-Schaefer Litho-Graphics Co. 95 pages, plus colophon. Fine.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 8719
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  Book Handbook: An Illustrated Quarterly for Owners and Collectors of Books (8 issues).
London, England. 7 numbered issues, plus supplement (1947-1948). 50-60 page issues with articles on books and collectors, along with brief bibliographies on authors (mainly english). Ads for bookdealers (mostly English dealers) in front and back. Among the articles are: I - "Sir John Franklin and the Search for the North-West Passage" by Jean Gallatly, "Franklin Bibliography" by E.A. Osborne, "Books from the Library of Jacques Auguste de Thou" by L.J. Lloyd; II - "The Shakespear Folios" by R.C. Bald; III - "William Withering: Bibliographical Notes" by E.A. Osborne; IV - "Bibliography of the Ghost Stories" by E.A. Osborne, "'Das Kapital' and Marxism" by George Bernard Shaw; V - "Herrick's Tercentenary" by Oliver Lodge; VI - "Early Atlases of the British Isles" by G.R. Crone; VII - "Australian Book-Plates, Some Makers and Owners" by R.H. Croll, "Books on Cockfighting" by A.J.B. Kiddell; Supplement - "Index". Fine.
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4413] Book number: 10208
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  Bookmakers to America
Kingsport Press, Inc. (1948). Kingsport, Tennessee.. Cloth. Illustrations. Slight foxing. This book was compiled and printed for those who visit the plant of Kingsport Press. The company was established in 1922 at Kingsport. The book recounts its history and describes its various departments and d ivi sions, with illustrations.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 1580
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  Books Worth Reading 85c.
New York, New York, A.L.Burt Company. 1929. 28 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (3 1/4 x 6 1/2 inch). Covers fiction, photoplays, & juvenile titles. Clean copy. Very Good.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 10087
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  Bought of ROBERT E. COWAN, Successor to P.J. Healy. Old Books and Magazines Bought and Sold.
San Francisco, California, 189-. Printed sales reciept (8 1/2 x 4 3/4 inch) for the bookdealer and bibliographer Robert E. Cowan of San Francisco, California during the 1890s. Blank. Fine.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 10308
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  British Museum: A Guide to the Exhibition in the King's Library Illustrating the History of Printing, Music-Printing and Bookbinding
Printed By Order of the Trustees. 1926. An exhibit catalog. Paper over boards. Some soiling, but very good. 180 pages. Illustrated. Contains: Blockbooks and the Earliest German Printing; Book Printed at Mainz; German, 1460-1520; Italy; The Netherlands, France and Spain; Books Printed by Caxton; Books Printed by Wynkyn de Words; Lettou, Machlinia and Notary; Books printed by Richard Pynson; English Provincial Printing, 1848-1585;. English Printing in the Sixteenth Century; English Books Printed Abroad; Later English Printing; Printing in Scotland, Ireland and the Colonies; Famous English Books; MusicMaps; English Rayal Bookbindings; Stamped Bindings; German and Dutch Goild-Stamped Bindings; Italian Bindings; French Bindings; English Bindings.
USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25.25 | £UK 22.75 | JP¥ 3310] Book number: 5305
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  Bulmer, Oxford & Monticello, Baskerville, Bondoni: Specimen Sheets of Paper and Tupe from Eastern Corporation.
Bangor, Maine, Eastern Corporation. Ill.: George F. Trenholm, Edwin H. Stuart, P.J. Conkwright & T.M. Cleland. Four sets of Specimen Sheets (17 x 22) with accompaning cards (8 1/2 x 11) within an envelope addressed to Mr. Joseph A. Foster - Scripps College Press. Pencil notes on envelope with pin holes on top of specimen sheets. Oxford & Monticello specimen designed by P.J. Conkwright of Princeton University; Baskerville specimen designed by T.G. Bixler of Pittsburg, Penn.; Bodoni specimen designed by George F. Trenholm of Boston, Mass.; and Bulmer specimen designed by T.M. Cleland of New York, N.Y. Fine.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 8848
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  A Calendar of Wildflowers 1980.
Placerville, Calif. The Blackwood Press. 1979. Ill.: Simpson, Edmund E. Number 46 of an edition of 200 copies issued. Tied gathering of twelve months, plus title page and colophon page (4 1/2 x 9 inch). Wildflowers are printed in multiple colors from linoleum blocks cut by the printer, Dr. Edmund E. Simpson. Fine.
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4413] Book number: 9649
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(POWELL, LAWRENCE CLARK)  CALIFORNIA LIBRARY BULLETIN, 11 "Centennial Number"
California Library Association. 1950. "California Library Bulletin, 11 (June 1950)". Pages 134-195; specially bound in cloth boards (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch) with gilt title. Lawrence Clark Powell's "With the Librarian's Compliments" card inclosed. Among the articles are Powell's "Book Collectors and California Libraries", Joy Lichtenstein "Recollections of the Early San Francisco Public Library", Howard M. Rowe, Althea Warren, Edith M. Coulter, Susan T. Smith, Sydney B. Mitchell, among others. Fine.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 10204
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  California State Library Quarterly Bulletin
Sacramento, California, State Printer. 1903. QUARTERLY BULLETIN, II #10 (April-June 1903): 11 pages. "Recent accessions to the Library" broken into subject and region areas. No annotations. Evidence of having been folded. Good.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 10737
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  Caslon & Janson: Specimen Sheets of Paper and Type from Eastern Corporation.
Bangor, Maine, Eastern Corporation. Ill.: Carl Rollins & Fred Anthoensen. Two sets of specimen sheets (17 x 22) with accompaning cards (8 1/2 x 11) within envelope addressed to Mr. Joseph A. Foster - Scripps College Press. Pencil notes on envelope and two pin holes at top of each specimen sheet. Caslon Specimen designed by Carl Purlington Rollins of Yale University and the Janson Specimen designed by Fred Anthoensen of Portland, Maine. Fine.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 8847
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  Cat. 792 Sports & Pastimes: a Catalogue of Books and Illustrations Relating to Sport
London, Maggs Bros. Ltd. 1950. Wrappers, chipped along spine. Contains 758 items, described and priced on the subjects of: 1. Henry Alken. 2. Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, Racing, etc. 3. Falconry. 4. Dogs. 5. Horses & Horsemanship. 6. Angling. 7. Pastimes: Archery, Billards, Boxing, Coaching, Cricket, etc. 7. Sporting Engravings & Original Drawings. Illustrated. 121 pages. Very Good.
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1545] Book number: 8442
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  Catalogue of French Books and Books to Learn Foreign Languages
The French Book Store. No date: circa 1916. San Francisco.. Wrappers. This catalogue lists French books available by mail order including novels and plays, illustrated and deluxe editions, books on art, French albums and illustrated books for children, and books for the study of all foreign languages.
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1545] Book number: 1624
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  Catalogue Number 112: The Range Country...Literature of the American Cattle Trade
Beverly Hills, California, International Bookfinders. No date, circa 1960. Brown wrappers, somewhat sunned at spine. From a preliminary page: "The Range Country is based on the book 'The Rampaging Herd' by Ramon F. Adams--reproduces the chapter 'Range Life' from the book 'Life and Literature of the Southwest' by Frank Dobie--prints for the first time 'My Favorite 101 Books about the Cattle Industry' by Loring Campbell--includes many additions of related books and pamphlets.." A priced offering of 861 items. Very Good.
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1545] Book number: 7693
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  Catalogue of Some Five Hundred Examples of the Printing of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn 1912-1960: Two Gentlemen from Indiana, Now Resident in California, Offered for Sale at he Book Shop of David Magee, 442 Post Street (2nd floor), San Francisco ....
. Wrappers. A catalog by the bibliographer of the Grabhorn Press. Magee's notes in this publication differ from the comments he makes in the bibliographies. 350 copies of the issue in wrappers were printed by The Grabhorn Press. There was also an edition in hardcover of 250 copies. A prospectus for that edition is laid into this copy. 8 1/2 by 11 inches. 63 pages. Very Good.
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1545] Book number: 7761
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  Catalogue Number Thirty-Nine, 1920, Issued from 104 High Street, Oxford, Entgland By Leslie Chaundry, Bookseller, Being the Privately Purchased Library of the Late Rev. C.H.O. Daniel, D.D., Provost of Worcester College, Oxford (title Cont. In Desc.)
. (Bound together with): "Catalogue Number Forty-one Comprising the Second and Final Portion of the Library of the Late Dr. Daniel (Provost of Worcester College, Oxford) With a Few Items of Interest From Other Private Libraries Recently Addded to the Stock of Leslie Chaundry, Bookseller, Oxford, England. (1920). Both catalogs are in the original wrappers, bound in plain cloth backed boards. 64 pages, 498 priced items; 48 pages, 552 priced items. Very Good.
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 100.25 | £UK 90.25 | JP¥ 13239] Book number: 8300
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  A Catalogue of the Publications of William Edwin Rudge Spring 1930
475 Fifth Avenue, New York, (William Edwin Rudge). Publisher's orange wrappers with black lettering. Frontispiece photo of the attractive building which housed the publisher. 48 pages, describing books printed (or to be printed) prints, series of books, etc. Detailed information of printing nujmbers. Very Good/`.
USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1545] Book number: 8595
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  Centaur: Specimen Sheets of Paper and Type from Eastern Corporation.
Bangor, Maine, Eastern Corporation. Ill.: Rogers, Bruce. Specimen sheet (17 x 22) with accompaning card (8 1/2 x 11) within an envelope addressed to Mr. Joseph A. Foster - Scripps College Press. Pencil Notes on envelope and pin holes on the specimen sheet. Centaur specimen sheet designed by Bruce Rogers. Associated with the Riverside Press, Montague Press, etc and famous for his Oxford Lectern Bible using Centaur type. Fine.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 8856
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