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[Meeting announcement] Annual Meeting Gleeson Library Associates, University of San Francisco, Sunday, April 22, 1979.

By: [ANGELO, Valenti; John DREYFUS].

Price: $12.00

Publisher: San Francisco:, Gleeson Library Associates, 1979.: 1979

Seller ID: LV2046

Lecture "A Printer's Friends" by John Dreyfus . . . Concluding remarks by Sally R. Hurst. With an Eric Gill illustration on upper sheet, "La dame aux balles colorees (Woman with balloons), hand-colored by the hands of children under the supervision of Valenti Angelo. Inscribed by the speaker, John Dreyfus to Sally R. Hurst (see above).
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The Grabhorn Press, a biography.

By: [GRABHORN PRESS] Roby WENTZ.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: San Francisco:, The Book Club of California, 1981.: 1981

Seller ID: LV2059

4to. 151 pp. Illus. Quarter white linen-backed, gilt spine title, decorative boards, plain white dust-jacket (as issued); bottom edges of upper cover marred with a dual puncture, else very good. Limited edition of 750 copies printed at The Grace Hoper Press, Aptos, California. Initials by Mallette Dean. Publication no. 168 of The Book Club of California. The highly collected Grabhorn Press is honored with this full biographical treatment of the press, their operators, the authors and stories behind some of their greatest works.
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The wonderful city of Carrie Van Wie. Paintings of San Francisco at the turn of the century with text by Oscar Lewis.

By: [Grabhorn Press].

Price: $125.00

Publisher: San Francisco:, Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California, (1963).: 1963

Seller ID: LV1026

380 x 262 mm. Tall 4to. Unpaginated. Title-page with color illus. and port., red initials, 21 color plates. Quarter beige cloth, pictorial boards, plain jacket. Bookplate of JAS Shiell. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 525. The color reproductions are the size of the originals and were made from blocks engraved by Mary Grabhorn printed over collotype plates.
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Alphabetum Romanum [Codex Vaticanus 6852] Edited by Giovanni Mardersteig. [Translated by R. H. Boothroyd].

By: [Officina Bodoni] Feliciano, Felice, 15th cent.

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Verona, Italy:, Editiones Officinae Bodoni, (1960).: 1960

Seller ID: LV1809

24 cm. 137, [3] p. illus. (part col.). German text. Printed in Dante on Magnani paper, with five heliogravure plates and 26 large capitals (Q-S folding) hand-coloured by Ameglio Trivelli after the original manuscript. Original quarter brown crushed morocco over gray paper-backed boards with gilt-stamped printer's emblem, t.e.g., others uncut; acetate wrapper & matching decorative paper over boards slip-case with morocco trim; slip-case is neatly rebuilt, like new. Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 160 numbered copies with German text. Introduction and printing by Giovanni Mardersteig (1892-1977). Addi...
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The Sonnets of William Shakespeare.

By: [Plantin Press] William SHAKESPEARE.

Price: $5,500.00

Publisher: Los Angeles:, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Booksellers, April 1974.: 1974

Seller ID: LV1813

Sm. 8vo. 154 pp. 2 illustrations by Mary Kuper. Original binding by Max J. Adjarian in quarter Levant morocco, decorative paper (designed by the printer), raised bands, gilt spine. Fine copy. LIMITED EDITION74 of 120 numbered copies. Printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles. With wood engravings by Mary Kuper. This is the rarest and most desired hand-printed work from a Southern California printer. It is notoriously rare as it was sold out on publication (Zeitlin bought out the edition and distributed it to private subscribers). It was elegantly designed by Saul Marks...
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