Sherwood Grover Was a Printer.
Fairfax, CA.: Press of Arlen and Clara Louise Philpott, 1986. 8vo. 8 pp., Very Good, some creasing. Illustrated. One of 1050 copies. More
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The 1997 Keepsake. Twelve Treasures From The Library of the Book Club of California.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1997. 4to. (26 cm.). 1 portfolio (13 folders) : illustrations (some color, some mounted), facsimiles. Very Good. More
A Printer's Garland: being a miscellany of typographic fancies.
Los Angeles, CA: Windsor Press, 1935. 18mo. 35 pp. Gilt Vellum on Decorative Violet Boards. Very Good+. Color plates. More
Mr. Eric Gill. Recollections Of David Kindersley. One of 400.
Los Angeles, CA: Ward Ritchie Press, 1967. 12mo. 24 pp. Gilt Black Cloth on Boards. Very Good+. B&W plates. More
Notes On the Port of St. Francis, 1951.
San Francisco, CA.: Grabhorn Press, 2003. 32mo. Promotional Card, Very Good, minor edge wear. More
Please Come To A Celebration for Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco.
San Francisco, CA.: Greenwood Press, 2003. 48mo. Post Card, Very Good with some creasing. Mailed to Peter Howard & Nancy Kosenka of Serendipity Books. More
Ten Dullest Authors: A Symposium. Quarterly News-Letter, Winter 1965, Volume XXXI, Number One.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1965. 8vo. 22 pp., Stapled Wraps, Very Good+. Newspaper clipping present. Illustrated. First Edition. More
The Voyage of the Racoon. A 'Secret' Journal of a Visit to Oregon, California and Hawaii, 1813-1814.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1958. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Folded Page, Very Good. Return envelope present. Illustrated. More
Noticias De California: First Report Of the Occupation of California by the Portola Expedition, 1770.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1958. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Folded Page With Deckled Edge In Envelope, Very Good with creasing. Return envelope present. More
A Trip to the Gold Mines of California in 1848.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1960. PROSPECTUS. 8vo. Folded Page, Very Good with creasing. Return envelope present. Illustrated. More
Words In Retrospect: our first meeting in nineteen hundred and thirteen was held in the rooms of the Commonwealth Club, througth the courtesy of its officers. Early in March, however, we established quarters of our own in the Phelan Building. First Edition.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, [1913]. Broadside. Folio (38 cm.). Folded Sheet [4 pp.] Letterpress on Watermarked Deckled Laid Paper, with red & black ink, illustrated capital. Very Good+. One of the first printed pieces (at least the fifth) issued by the Book Club of California. Scarce. More
The Testimony of the Suns. To the members of The Book Club of California. Facsimile manuscript page of poem with marginal notes of the author, George Sterling and Ambrose Bierce. (This is the prospectus for a book, not the book itself).
San Francisco: Book Club of California, [1927]. Prospectus. Facsimile Manuscript. Folio (37 cm.). Folded Sheet, with Facsimile tipped inside. [5 pp.] Letterpress on Watermarked ("Aurelian") Laid Paper, within red ruled lines. Decorative border on final page. Very Good+. Scarce. More
Lithographic Views Of California Towns 1875 - 1889. Introduction & Table of Contents.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1985. 4to. Oblong. Folded Sheet, Good with staining and creasing to cover. Illustrated cover. More
Leah Wollenberg: A Retrospective Exhibition of Her Hand Bookbindings.
San Francisco, CA.: Book Club of California, 1990. 48mo. Post Card, Very Good+. More
California Poetry Folios, Part One Through Twelve. Complete set in slipcase. Limited edition of 750.
San Francisco, CA: Book Club Of California, 1947. 4to. Blue Slipcase & Portfolio holding twelve folded quarto leaflets (one sewn chapbook style), Letterpress on french-fold sheets, some with deckled edges, most with illustrations (some color). Typed form letter loosely laid in addressed to Book Club Of California members. Very Good..... More
An Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts by Robinson Jeffers. First Edition.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1959. Exhibition Prospectus. Folio (34 cm.). Folded Sheet [4 pp.] Letterpress on Watermarked ("Tweedweave") Deckled Laid Paper, with red & black ink. Errata Sheet laid in. Very Good+. More
An Exhibition Of Books And Manuscripts by Robinson Jeffers.
San Francisco, CA: Book Club Of California, 1959. Folio (34 cm.). Exhibition Prospectus/ Folded Sheet [4 pp.] Letterpress on Watermarked ("Tweedweave") Deckled Laid Paper, with red & black ink. Very Good with creasing. From the collection of Joseph Gold. More
Mallette Dean, Artist And Printer, 1907-1975.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1975. 8vo. Folded Page, Very Good with minor stains, some creasing. Illustrated. Obituary for illustrator, engraver and book decorator Harold Mallette Dean. More
My Day In The Wilderness. Six California Tales: Number Six.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1939. 8vo. 18 pp., Soft Cover Chapbook Binding, Very Good, minor edge wear & slight creasing to cover corners. Illustrated Title on cover. More
Pepe.
San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California, 1937. 8vo. 16 pp. String-bound Wraps, Letterpress on Laid Paper with Deckled Edges. VG. Number Five of the Contemporary California Short Stories. Edition of 600 copies, with a foreword by the author ; illustrations by Paul Landacre. From the Collection of the Book..... More
Fine Hand Bookbindings for Book Club of California Publications, Keepsake for 2001. (Fine hand bookbindings for Book Club of California publications, 2001 : an exhibition at the Book Club of California, San Francisco, January 10-February 26, 2001).
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001. 4to. 30 pp. Very Good+. Soft Cover. Illustrated paper wraps. Color plates throughout. Scarce. Exhibitors: Jane Aaron, Marlyn Bonaventure, Joseph D'Ambrosio, Anne deBroves, Sün Evrard, Patricia Galante, Sandra Good, Lindsay Hague, Abby Jones, Barbara Kretzmann, Hisako Nakazawa, Elaine Hishizu Nelson, Patricia Owen..... More
The Heathen Chinee: plain language from Truthful James, by Bret Harte, with an introd. by Ina Coolbrith and a bibliography by Robert Ernest Cowan, illustrated by Phil Little, printed by John Henry Nash. Printed by John Henry Nash for the Members of The Book Club of California. (this is a Prospectus for a book, not the book itself)
San Francisco: John Henry Nash & Book Club of California, 1934. Prospectus. Folio (37 cm.). Chinese Stitch Binding, Laid Red Paper Covers with Chinese Label attached to cover. French-Fold Sheets [6 pp.] Illustrated. Good with tiny marginal tears, faint sun-fading to cover, minor stains, else VG+. Text in English and..... More
The Book Club of California is Happy to Announce that A. Edward Newton Will Be The Dinner Guest of the Club at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Mr. Newton is America's greatest bibliophile.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1931. Broadside. 12.5" x 9.5" Folded Sheet, Letterpress on Deckled Laid, Red and Black Ink, Text within Red Ruled Lines. [4 pp.]. Illustration. RSVP Card and Envelope Present. Good with tiny marginal tears, else Very Good +. Scarce. More
The Great Comforting Sermon. From The San Franciso Examiner.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1921. Broadside. 11.5" x 9" Folded Sheet, Letterpress on Deckled Wove, Gilt Capital, Gothic Font, Red and Black Ink, Text within Light Green Decorative Border. [4 pp.]. Good with tiny marginal tears, else Very Good +. Scarce. More
Prospectus for Controversial James: An Essay on the Life and Work of George Wharton James by Roger Keith Larson.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1991. 8vo. [4] pp., port., illus. Prospectus for third volume in the club's Literary Profiles series. Black & white portrait of James with "Indian friends" and order form envelope loosely inserted. Very good. This is an advertisement for a book, not the book itself..... More