Author: VILLON, FRANCOIS
Title: Sundry Ballades
Description: San Francisco, CA: Grabhorn Press, 1922. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Joseph Sinel. Limited to 210 unnumbered copies. This copy has the variant binding of brown paper covered boards with a vellum spine and blue leather title label on the front cover. The book is in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "The prestigious and well-known Grabhorn Press was founded in 1919 when two young men, Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, moved to San Francisco to start a small printing concern. Here they connected with the San Franciscan local community of bibliophiles and artists, becoming well liked and well-connected with the other movers and shakers of the American design world: the Nash brothers. What few people knew about the Grabhorn brothers was that they were also the students of arguably America's finest book designer, Bruce Rogers. Over the following years, their unique eye for book design as well as their community spirit in pairing up contemporary illustrators with woodcut sculptors, book designers and type-makers served them well, they are currently regarded as one of the finest of the private presses produced by America, and an equal in excellence and style to any of the fine art English private presses. Over their years they succeeded in printing a large amount of materials, with volumes commissioned by no less than British and American politicians and museums." (artunderwraps). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Californiana Francois Villon Poetry Grabhorn Press
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Title: Sundry Ballades
Description: San Francisco, CA: Grabhorn Press, 1922. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Joseph Sinel. Limited to 210 unnumbered copies. This copy has the variant binding of brown paper covered boards with a vellum spine and blue leather title label on the front cover. The book is in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "The prestigious and well-known Grabhorn Press was founded in 1919 when two young men, Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, moved to San Francisco to start a small printing concern. Here they connected with the San Franciscan local community of bibliophiles and artists, becoming well liked and well-connected with the other movers and shakers of the American design world: the Nash brothers. What few people knew about the Grabhorn brothers was that they were also the students of arguably America's finest book designer, Bruce Rogers. Over the following years, their unique eye for book design as well as their community spirit in pairing up contemporary illustrators with woodcut sculptors, book designers and type-makers served them well, they are currently regarded as one of the finest of the private presses produced by America, and an equal in excellence and style to any of the fine art English private presses. Over their years they succeeded in printing a large amount of materials, with volumes commissioned by no less than British and American politicians and museums." (artunderwraps). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Californiana Francois Villon Poetry Grabhorn Press
Price: US$ 85.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 39045
- Book number: 39045
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