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FINE PRESS BOOKS 264-359
Fine Press Books
Lots 264-359
Including Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borosini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
Lucia von Borosini Batten and her husband in their Philadelpiha library. Lucia von Borosini Batten was born in Chicago in 1911, the only child of Baron Victor von Borosini and Edith Dorr von Borosini. Her parents were affiliated with Hull House, the settlement house established in Chicago for social reform by philanthropist and social innovator Jane Addams; Ms. Addams was Lucia’s godmother. The von Borosini family traced their lineage back to Venetian nobility, while the Dorrs of New England prospered in the lumber and mining industries.
Ms. Batten was educated in Europe and America and spoke five languages. She traveled extensively throughout her life, attending private schools in four different countries. In the 1950s, she purchased an 1875 adobe hacienda in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which was later placed on the national register of Historic Places.
She loved collecting “because she could,” and in addition to paintings, furniture and other decorative objects, she built a substantial book collection consisting of more than 25,000 volumes. The collection was housed in its own private library, an adjacent structure which she built in the same territorial style as her adobe hacienda. She was an active collector throughout her life, and maintained friendships with other collectors and writers, including Vyvyan Holland. Portions of her book collection are now at the Huntington Library and the library at the University of New Mexico.
In 2005, at the age of 93, Ms. Batten passed away, leaving her old adobe and much of its contents to the Albuquerque Museum Foundation, a private non-profit whose mission is to raise funds for exhibition support of permanent and traveling exhibits, acquisitions of artwork and historic objects and educational programs at the Albuquerque Museum. Restored and remodeled, the old adobe hacienda serves as the offices for the Albuquerque Museum Foundation, where the bedrooms were converted to offices, and the library serves as a meeting space for the Foundation and continues to hold thousands of books.
The majority of her books can be found in the Fine Press Books section of the sale, but others throughout the sale are indicated in the provenance.
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[ALLEN PRESS]. MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592). Essays of Montaigne. Hillsborough, CA: Allen Press, 1948.
8vo. Title printed in green, purple and brown; headpieces and initials printed in colors throughout, initials additionally gilt. Original red brocade-covered boards, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut; original gold dust jacket (some wear to extremities, chipped with small losses, scratch on front panel).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 unnumbered copies, with headpieces and initials by Mallette Dean, and bound by William Wheeler.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$150-250
266
265
[ALLEN PRESS]. CAXTON, William, translator. The Noble Knight Paris & the Fair Vienne. Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1956.
4to. Title-page printed in orange, title and text with hand-colored marginal vignettes and decorations. (Slight toning to title recto and facing leaf, otherwise fine.) Original vellum-backed pictorial boards, uncut (tiny stain at top of spine); original slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 130 unnumbered copies, based on Caxton’s 1485 English translation, known in only one copy (at the British Library). Original prospectus and order blank laid in.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
266
[ARION PRESS]. SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Venus and Adonis. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1975.
4to. 7 full-page illustrations. Original silver-stamped lavender silk boards, uncut; original silver slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 190 unnumbered copies of the Arion Press’s third work, printed on T. H. Saunders mould-made loam. Original prospectus and publication party invitation laid in.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
267
[BENNETT, Paul A. (1897-1966)]. A Memorial Keepsake. N.p.: The Typophiles, n.d.
12mo (177 x 115 mm). 61 individual contributions ranging from 4 pp. to 20 pp. each. Individual works folded, stapled, or stabbed and sewn, all loose in original board slipcase with printed wraparound label.
LIMITED EDITION, one of approximately 200 unnumbered copies, including contributions by Valenti Angelo, Peter Pauper Press, Stanbrook Abbey Press, Jane Grabhorn, The Grace Hoper Press, Ward Ritchie and Joseph Simon, and the Stinehour Press, and including a light-and-shade portrait watermark of Bennett with his initials in countermark.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
265
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[BIRD & BULL PRESS]. BARRETT, Timothy. Nagashizuki: the Japanese Craft of Hand Papermaking. North Hills PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1979.
4to. 14 paper samples tipped in, numerous illustrations, title-page printed in brown and black. Original quarter morocco, decorative paper-covered boards, morocco-tipped corners, spine gilt-lettered, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, number 65 of 300 copies, printed on B & B “Nagashizuki” paper made at the Bird & Bull Press, bound by E. G. Parrot II. Original prospectus laid in.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
269
[BIRD & BULL PRESS]. McCLURE, Floyd Alonzo. Chinese Handmade Paper. Newtown PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1986.
4to. 40 paper samples tipped in, numerous illustrations and plates, head-pieces, printed in red and black. Original quarter morocco gilt, morocco-tipped corners, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, number 216 of 325 copies on mouldmade Hahnemühle paper, bound by E. G. Parrot. Original prospectus and facsimile Chinese newspaper laid in. Bird & Bull A42.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
270
[BIRD & BULL PRESS]. HUNTER, Dard, II. HUNTER, Dard, III. Dard Hunter & Son. Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1998.
Folio. 7 original folio or quarto leaves by Mountain House books and 4 original watermarked papers by the Hunters tipped in; 30 pp. black and white illustrations, 30 color reproductions tipped in. Original quarter black goatskin, red silk boards, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, uncut by the Campbell-Logan Bindery; original gold silk folding case.
LIMITED EDITION, number 52 of 225 copies on Frankfurt mouldmade paper, with a forward and notes by Henry Morris, and including material from Dard Hunter, Jr.’s The Life Work of Dard Hunter. Original prospectus laid in.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$300-400
271
[BIRD AND BULL PRESS]. A group of 4 works, comprising:
MORRIS, Henry M. Confessions of an Amateur Papermaker. In: The Paper Maker, Volume 33, number 1. Wilmington, Delaware: Hercules Powder Company, 1964. 4to. Original printed wrappers spiral bound. -- Proceedings at a Meeting of the Vat Paper Makers held at the Bell Hotel, Maidstone on Tuesday 8th March 1853. 1970. 4to. Original printed wrappers; card chemise. Original prospectus laid in. -- SHAW, Bernard. Flyleaves. Austin: Bird & Bull Press for W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. 4to. Original cloth. Errata slip laid in. One of 350 copies. -- STONEBACK, H. R. Cartographers of the Deus Loci: The Mill House. 1982. 8vo. Original vellum-backed boards; original plain dust jacket. Number 188 of 240 copies. Prospectus laid in.
LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated, published North Hills, Pennsylvania except where indicated.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
272
[BLACK SUN PRESS]. MINKOFF, George Robert. A Bibliography of the Black Sun Press. Great Neck, NY: G. R. Minkoff, 1970.
4to. Photographic frontispiece, title-page printed in red and black. Original publisher’s gilt-stamped cloth.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 1250 unnumbered copies.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
273
[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. [FRANKLIN, Benjamin (17051790)]. Cato’s Moral Distichs. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1939.
8vo. Original leaf from the Church of Scotland Prayer Book, printed by Benjamin Franklin (Philadelphia 1745) bound in; 24 pp. facsimile of Cato’s ‘Moral Distichs printed by Franklin throughout. Original green cloth gilt (a few small scuffs to cover).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press for The Book Club of California, with an explanatory forward by Carl Van Doren. Original prospectus laid in.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borosini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$150-250
274
[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. HALL, Basil. The Great Polyglot Bibles: Including a Leaf from the Complutensian of Acalá, 1514-17. San Francisco: the Book Club of California, 1966.
Folio. Original polyglot leaf tipped in, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with 6 ADDITIONAL LEAVES from the Complutensian of Acalá laid in; printed in red and black throughout. Loose as issued in original red handmade paper printed wrappers; original purple cloth folding case, printed paper labels on upper cover and spine.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 400 unnumbered copies, printed by the Allen Press. The 7 leaves from the Complutensian of Acalá comprise 5 text leaves, and 2 leaves including title and prologue to Part IV, with the arms of Cardinal Jimenez printed in red within a decorative woodcut border. Allen Press Bibliography 30.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
275
[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. BOOTH, Stephen. The Book Called Holinshed’s Chronicles... San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1968.
Folio. Title-page from vol. II of the 1587 edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles tipped in; title-page printed in red and black, numerous illustrations. Original cream linen-backed decorative paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine (small strip of upper cover slightly sunned, otherwise fine).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 5 unnumbered copies with a title-page or colophon leaf of a total edition of 500. Of the 500 copies printed, 60 special copies were set aside for Sustaining Members of the Book Club of California: 5 contained a title-page or colophon from the second edition (1587) of Holinshed’s Chronicles, and 55 contained leaves with large initials or head-pieces. Original prospectus and letter from the Book Club of California to Sustaining Members laid in. BCC 130.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$150-250
276
[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. DILLON, Richard. Images of Chinatown: Louis J. Stellman’s Chinatown Photographs. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1976.
Oblong 8vo. 33 photographic illustrations after Stellman, numerous illustrations in margins; printed in red and black throughout. Original quarter red cloth, decorative paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 450 unnumbered copies printed by Adrian Wilson at The Press in Tuscany Alley, bound by The Schuberth Bookbindery.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
277
[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. HARDY, Thomas. The Vineyards and Wine Cellars of California. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1994.
4to. 12 duotone photographs and 12 color reproductions. Original purple cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, printed label on spine; original slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 450 unnumbered copies designed by James and Carolyn Robertson and printed under the supervision of The Yolla Bolly Press. Hardy’s work, originally published in 1885, is regarded as the first book about California wine. Original prospectus laid in. BCC 244.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
278
[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. CHALMERS, Claudine. Splendide Californie! Impressions of the Golden State by French Artists, 1786 to 1900. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001.
4to. Numerous photo offset lithographic illustrations after paintings and prints, nearly all in color. Original green cloth, upper cover with printed color reproduction of an Ernest Narjot self-portrait, printed paper label on spine; original slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 450 unnumbered copies, produced under the supervision of The Yolla Bolly Press; this scarce work was over-subscribed on publication. Original prospectus and order blank laid in. BCC 212.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
279
[BOOK CLUB OF CALFORNIA]. A group of 8 works relating to printing history, comprising:
JOHNSON, Cecil and James. A Printer’s Garland. 1935. 12mo. Original vellum-backed boards. One of 300 copies. -- KAINEN, Jacob. George Clymer and the Columbian Press. 1950. Original cloth; original glassine. One of 350 copies. -- RITCHIE, Ward. Frederic Goudy, Joseph Foster, and the Press at Scripps College. 1978. Original cloth-backed boards; original plain lavender dust jacket. One of 550 copies. Original prospectus laid in. -- DREYFUS, John. William Caxton and his Quincentenary. 1976. Original cloth. One of 400 copies. Errata tipped to limitation page. Original prospectus laid in. -- FRANKLIN, Colin. Themes in Aquatint. 1978. Original cloth-backed boards; original plain dust jacket. One of 500 copies. Original prospectus laid in. -- RITCHIE, Ward. Paul Landacre. 1982. Original cloth-backed boards; original dust jacket. One of 650 copies. -- RITCHIE, Ward. Art Deco. The Books of François-Louis Schmied Artist/Engraver/Printer. 1987. Original cloth; glassine. Original prospectus laid in. -- TEISER, Ruth. Lawton Kennedy, Printer. 1988. Original cloth-backed boards; original dust jacket. One of 450 copies.
ALL LIMITED EDITION, published by various printers for The Book Club of California.
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$200-300
280 281 282
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[BOOK CLUB OF CALFORNIA]. A group of 11 works relating to California authors and history, comprising:
REEDY, William Marion. The City That has Fallen. 1933. 12mo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 350 copies. -- KING, Clarence. The Helmet of Mambrino. 1938. 12mo. Original vellum-backed boards. One of 350 copies. -- BROWNE, J. Ross. Muleback to the Convention. 1950. 8vo. Original boards. One of 400 copies. -- HART, James D., editor. My First Publication. 1961. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 475 copies. Original prospectus laid in. -- FRÉMONT, John C. Geographical Memoir. 1964. 8vo. Original boards. One of 425 copies. -- Yo Semite 1878. Adventures of N & C. 1964. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 450 copies. -- JOHNSON, Kenneth M. The Sting of the Wasp. 1967. Folio. Original cloth. One of 450 copies. -- LEWIS, Oscar. The First 75 Years. 1987. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 1200 copies. -- DAVISON, Richard Allan. Charles & Kathleen Norris The Courtship Year. 1993. 4to. Original cloth. One of 400 copies. -- LEWIS, Oscar. A Widely Cast Net. 1996. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; original plain dust jacket. One of 400 copies. -- Dear Master. Letters of George Sterling to Ambrose Bierce 1900-1912. 2002. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards; original slipcase. One of 350 copies.
ALL LIMITED EDITIONS, published by various printers for The Book Club of California.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$300-400
281
[BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. A group of 7 works relating to literature and philosophy, comprising:
BIERCE, Ambrose. Horseman in the Sky. A Watcher by the Dead. The Man and the Snake. 1920. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Number 49 of 400 copies. -- STERLING, George. Lilith. A Dramatic Poem. 1920. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Number 295 of 350 copies. -- DAWSON, Emma Frances. A Gracious Visitation. 1921. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Number 247 of 300 copies. -- BROWNE, Lewis. The Final Stanza. 1929. 8vo. Original vellum-backed boards. Number 281 of 400 copies SIGNED BY BROWNE. -- CLEMENS, Samuel (“Mark Twain”) and Bret HARTE. “Ah Sin”. 1961. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 450 copies. -- NORRIS, Frank. Collected Letters. 1986. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards; original plain dust jacket. One of 500 copies. -- JEFFERS, Una, compiler. A Book of Gaelic Airs for Ana’s Melodeon. 1989. Oblong 4to. Original cloth; original plain dust jacket. One of 500 copies.
ALL LIMITED EDITIONS, published by various printers for The Book Club of California. Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
282
[CUALA PRESS]. YEATS, William Butler (1865-1939). The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1928.
8vo. Woodcut device on title-page, colophon printed in red. Original tan linen-backed boards, printed paper label on spine; original plain dust jacket (tears with losses, soiled).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 400 unnumbered copies published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, and printed on paper made in Ireland.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
283
[DAWSON’S BOOK SHOP]. A group of 7 works, comprising:
LAYNE, J. Gregg. Books of the Los Angeles District. 1950. 12mo. Original cloth. One of 200 copies. Printed presentation slip laid in. -- POWELL, Lawrence Clark. Land of Fiction.1952. 12mo. Original cloth. One of 325 copies. -- WEBER, Francis J. Rev. A Select Los Angeles Bibliography 1872-1970. 1970. 12mo. Original printed boards. Number 300 of 300 copies SIGNED BY WEBER. -- WEBER, Francis J. Rev. A Select Bibliography to California Catholic Literature 18561974. 1970. 12mo. Original printed boards. Number 180 of 300 copies SIGNED BY WEBER. -- BLISS, Carey S. Autos Across America. 1972. 8vo. Original cloth. One of 315 copies. -- WENTZ, Roby. Western Printing. 1975. 8vo. Original clothbacked printed boards. One of 300 copies. -- LEHMAN, Anthony L. Paul Landacre: A Life and a Legacy. 1983. 8vo. Original cloth-backed printed boards.
LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated, published Los Angeles, except where indicated.
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$100-200
284
[ELSTON PRESS] -- [CUNEO FINE BINDING STUDIO]. TWINE, Laurence. Patterne of Painefull Adventures: Containing the...historie of the strange accidents that befell unto Prince Apollonius, the Lady Lucina his Wife, and Tharsia his daughter. New Rochelle, NY: Elston Press, 1903.
8vo. Text printed in red and black throughout. Half red crushed levant morocco, with cover corners square, covers with decorative border along spine of green morcoco diamond onlays gilt floral tools, cornerpieces similarly decorated, spine in five compartments gilt-lettered in three, the remaining two in varying sizes with cream morocco floral onlays gilt, patterned paper-covered boards, gold watered silk doublures and endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut, stampsigned: “Bound by Cuneo”.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 170 unnumbered copies.
ELABORATELY BOUND BY THE CUNEO FINE BINDING STUDIO. Leonard Mounteney, an extra finisher at Rivière in London, emigrated to America in 1924 to work at the hand bindery at Donnelley in Chicago. Two years later, he left to establish the Fine Binding Studio at rival Cuneo Press in Chicago; after about 25 years, he was succeeded by his assistant, George Baer. (For an additional binding by the Cuneo Press Fine Binding Studio, see lot 290. For an additional binding by Mounteney, see lot 335.)
$1,000-$2,000
285
[FOUNTAIN PRESS]. MILNE, Alan Alexander (1882-1956). When I Was Very Young. New York and London: The Fountain Press and Methuen and Company, Ltd, 1930.
8vo. Illustrations by E. H. Shepard throughout, printed in red and black. Original pictorial cloth, printed paper label on spine; original slipcase (some light wear).
LIMITED EDITION, number 660 of 842 copies SIGNED BY MILNE.
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285
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[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. COPPARD, Alfred Edgar (1878-1957). Hips & Haws. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1922.
8vo. Woodcut device on title-page. (Some minor spotting to a few leaves.) Original red cloth-backed yellow boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut and unopened; original printed dust jacket (some light soiling).
LIMITED EDITION, number 240 of 500 copies of the 7th book published by the Golden Cockerel Press. Chanticleer 7.
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$100-200
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[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745). Selected Essays. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925.
4to. Wood-engravings by John Farleigh, printed in blue and black. Original quarter vellum, marbled boards, uncut. Provenance: Unidentified monogram “S” bookplate on pastedown.
LIMITED EDITION, number 256 of an edition of 450, ONE OF 190 SURVIVING COPIES (260 of the copies were destroyed by fire). According to Chanticleer, two volumes of Swift’s essays were intended to be published but “owing to an accident in which more than half the edition of the first volume was destroyed, it was decided not to proceed with Volume II.” Chanticleer 27.
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$200-300
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[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745). Miscellaneous Poems. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928.
8vo. Wood-cut illustrations by Robert Gibbings, title-page printed in red and black. Original vellum-backed boards, uncut (spine slightly toned); original orange printed dust jacket (top edge creased and slightly dust-soiled with a few short tears or chips, spine panel soiled).
LIMITED EDITION, number 360 of 375 copies. Chanticleer 58.
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$150-250
289
[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. KEATS, John (1795-1821). Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of Saint Agnes and Other Poems. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928.
Small folio. Wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Gibbings, initials in red and blue. Original black shark skin, gilt snake on upper cover, spine gilt-lettered, metal clasps, edges gilt, stamp-signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
LIMITED EDITION, number 10 of 15 copies PRINTED ON VELLUM of a total edition of 500. Chanticleer 62. A FINE COPY.
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$6,000-8,000
291
[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. A group of 5 works, comprising:
J. D. Beresford. Signs & Wonders. 1921. 8vo. Original cloth. One of 1500 copies. -- COPPARD, A. E. Clorinda Walks in Heaven. 1922. 8vo Original cloth-backed boards. -- ARMSTRONG, Martin, editor. Jeremy Taylor. 1923. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 330 copies. -- COPPARD, A. E., editor. Songs from Robert Burns. 1925. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Number 168 of 450 copies. -- FELLOWES, Edmund H. and Edward PINE. The Tenbury Letters. London: 1942. 8vo. Original red cloth. Number 65 of 300 copies.
LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated, published Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, except where indicated.
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[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS] -- [CUNEO FINE BINDING STUDIO]. FLAUBERT, Gustave (1821-1880). Salambo. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1931.
8vo. Numerous woodcut illustrations by Robert Gibbings. (Some minor offsetting.) Contemporary crushed red levant morocco, sides with vertical ruling in gilt and black, spine in five compartments with four raised bands, gilt-lettered in four, and one large compartment with elaborate foliate and floral motif of tan, blue and green morocco onlays gilt, gilt butterfly tooling, board edges gilt-ruled, turn-ins ruled in gilt and black, blue watered silk doublures and endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed: “Bound by Cuneo” (joints and raised bands slightly rubbed, upper hinge starting .
LIMITED EDITION, one of 371 of 500 copies. ELABORATELY BOUND BY THE CUNEO FINE BINDING STUDIO. (For an additional binding by the Cuneo Press Fine Binding Studio, see lot 284. For an additional binding by Mounteney, see lot 335.) Chanticleer 78.
$1,000-$2,000
292
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. JASTROW, Morris, translator. The Song of Songs: Being Love Lyrics from Ancient Palestine. San Francisco: Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for The Book Club of California, 1922.
8vo. 23 initials, headpiece, printed in red, blue, and black throughout. Original vellum, spine gilt, uncut; original slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, number 165 of 310 copies, with initials by Joseph Sinel and a headpiece decoration by Harold von Schmidt. GB 45.
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$150-250
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[GRABHORN PRINTING]. Hymns to Aphrodite. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1927.
4to. Illustration by Valenti Angelo on title-page and as tail-piece. Original half vellum, black paper-covered boards decorated in silver, uncut (some minor scuffing).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 unnumbered copies, translated by John Edgar, and printed from hand set type. Original prospectus and order blank laid in. GB 98.
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$100-200
294
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles (18371909). Two Unpublished Manuscripts: De monumentis epitaphiisque mortuorum and Limits of Experience. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1927.
4to. Frontispiece and decorative initial by Valenti Angelo; facsimiles of both essays. Original quarter red morocco, fleur-de-lis patterned boards, spine gilt, uncut (some very slight rubbing to hinges and raised bands).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 50 unnumbered copies printed for Herbert Lionel Rothchild for Christmas, 1927, ONE OF ONLY A FEW COPIES SPECIALLY-BOUND IN MOROCCO. GB 101.
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$300-400
295
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. DE VINNE, Theodore Low (1828-1914). The Plantin-Moretus Museum. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1929.
12mo. Engraved hand-colored frontispiece. Original cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, number 391 of 425 copies. SIGNED BY EDWIN GRABHORN on the limitation page. GB 116.
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$100-200
296
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. AESOP (ca 620-560 B. C.). The Subtyl Historyes and Fables. William CAXTON, translator. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1930.
8vo. Title-page illustration printed in color, 6 head-pieces printed in color and gilt, and red initials all by Valenti Angelo. (Slight browning to sheet edges.) Full brown morocco gilt (tiny scuff to head of spine, otherwise fine). Provenance: Lee Stopple (presentation inscription).
LIMITED EDITION, number 179 of 200 copies. PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED BY EDWIN GRABHORN: “for Lee Stopple from Ed Grabhorn.” Printed on unbleached Arnold paper and bound by the Press. Original prospectus laid in. GB 142. A FINE COPY.
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$500-600
297
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. GREEN, Floride. Some Personal Recollections of Lillie Hitchcock Coit. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1935.
4to. Photographic frontispiece and illustrations, numerous facsimiles; printed in red and black. Original publisher’s black cloth-backed orange boards, upper cover with printed fire hat, printed paper label on spine.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 450 unnumbered copies of Floride Green’s “carefully chronicled...background of this amazing woman, who loved San Francisco and was in turn so loved that San Franciscans chose their most historic spot for perpetuating her memory” (Prospectus, laid in).
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$100-200
298
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne, (“Mark Twain,” 1835-1910). Letters from the Sandwich Islands. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1937.
8vo. Numerous illustrations printed in color. Original cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut. Provenance: Edith L. Dohrmann (bookplate).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 550 unnumbered copies of Twain’s work, part ofthe “Rare Americana” series. Original order blank laid in. GB 266.
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$150-250
299
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. [BARCLAY, Alexander]. [MAGEE, David]. An Original Leaf from the First Edition of Alexander Barclay’s English translation of Sebastian Brant’s Ship of Fools. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1938.
Folio. Original leaf from the first edition of Brant’s Ship of Fools (1509) with a wood-cut miniature tipped in; woodcut illustrations printed in colors in margins. Original cream linen-backed decorative papercovered boards, printed paper label to spine, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 115 unnumbered copies with an original leaf bearing a woodcut of a total edition of 160. Among the passengers in Brant’s famous allegory is the Book-Collector: “So in lyke wyse of bokys I have store / But few I rede and fewer understande / I followe not theyr doctryne nor theyr lore / It is enoughe to bere a boke in hande.” Original prospectus laid in. GB 300.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
300
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. [MAGEE, David]. A Leaf from a Fifteenth Century Flemish Book of Hours. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1938.
8vo. Illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum from a Flemish Book of Hours, 14 gold initials on alternating red and blue ground, gold linefillers on red, blue, and brown ground, panel border with sprigs of flowers, leaves, and animals on liquid gold ground (marginal stains from adhesive); text printed in red and blue, introduction by H. C. Schulz. Original ivory linen-backed decorative paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; original slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 120 unnumbered copies. Original prospectus INSCRIBED BY SCHULTZ, Assistant Curator of Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, laid in: “Lucia, I heartily recommend the author of this publication to you. H. C. Schulz.” GB 286.
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$300-400
301
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. An Original Issue of “The Spectator” Together with The Story of the Famous English periodical and of its Founders, Joseph Addison & Richard Steele. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California, 1939.
4to. One leaf of The Spectator tipped in for Friday, June 29, 1711 (short tear lower left); title-page printed in red and black.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 455 unnumbered copies, with an introduction by Eric Partridge. Original prospectus and order blank laid in. GB 312.
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$100-200
302
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891). The Encantadas, or, Enchanted Isles. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for William P. Wreden, 1940.
8vo. Initials and illustrations by Mallette Dean, printed in red and blue. Original tan linen-backed patterned paper-covered boards uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 550 unnumbered copies printed on Hazelbourne paper. Original prospectus and order blank laid in. GB 331.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$150-250
303
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. SAROYAN, William (1908-1981). Hilltop Russians in San Francisco. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1941.
4to. Numerous reproductions of water-colors by Pauline Vinson with printed tissue overlays. Original tan linen-backed decorative papercovered boards, uncut; original printed dust jacket (spine sunned, small chip to top edge).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 unnumbered copies. “This book of pictures by Miss Pauline Vinson is about some very wonderful people who life on Potrero Hill in San Francisco” (introduction). GB 364.
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$100-200
304
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. KEES, Weldon (1914-1955). The Last Man. San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1943.
8vo. Title printed in red and black. Green cloth-backed decorative paper boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 unnumbered copies, number 3 of the Bold Press Poetry Booklets. GB 388.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$150-250
305
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. SAWYER, Eugene T. The Life and Career of Tiburcio Vasquez the California Stage Robber. Oakland, CA: The Grabhorn Press, 1944.
8vo. Title and text printed in red, yellow, and black, numerous illustrations. Original red cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 unnumbered copies printed for Biobooks. Sawyer, a local journalist who attended Vasquez’s trial, first published his account in 1875.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
306 [GRABHORN PRINTING]. - MARTÍN, Don José. WAGNER, Henry R., translator. Memorial and Proposals of Señor Don José Martín on the Californias.... San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1945.
Small 4to. Printed in red and black. Original green cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 5 COPIES PRINTED ON HANDMADE PAPER of a total edition of 250 copies. GB 410.
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$100-150
307
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. WHEAT, Carl I. The Pioneer Press of California. Oakland, CA: Grabhorn Press for Biobooks, 1948.
4to. Woodcuts by Mallette Dean; facsimiles of early California newspapers. (Some offsetting of newspaper facsimiles to text leaves.) Original red cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut (foot of spine very slightly rubbed).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 450 unnumbered copies, describing early printing in California. GB 459.
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$100-150
308
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tempest. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1951.
Folio. Illustrations by Mary Grabhorn; text printed in red and black. Original tan linen-backed patterned paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 160 unnumbered copies of the first work in the Grabhorn Press’s Shakespeare series. GB 506.
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$150-250
309
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. RABELAIS, François (1494?-1553). Catalogue of the Choice Books Found by Pantagruel in the Abbey of Saint Victor. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for William P. Wreden,1952.
4to. Title-page and text printed in red and black within brown rule borders. Original cloth-backed boards, paper label gilt on spine, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 unnumbered copies; of these, approximately 125 copies of this edition were destroyed in a fire at the publisher’s warehouse. Translated by Walter Klinefelter. GB 523.
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$150-250
310
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. SHAKESPEARE, William (15641616). Macbeth. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1952.
Folio. 6 color-printed woodcuts after Mary Grabhorn, one SIGNED BY GRABHORN in pencil lower right. (Scant spotting to a few leaves.) Original black morocco-backed decorated paper-covered boards, spine blind-stamped (some light scuffing to morocco).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 180 unnumbered copies of the second work in the Grabhorn Press’s series of Shakespeare’s plays. GB 525.
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$150-250
311
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1953.
4to. 6 color-printed woodcuts after Mary Grabhorn. Original limp vellum gilt, cloth ties, edges uncut (tiny chip to lower joint, small mark on spine, otherwise fine); original slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 180 unnumbered copies of the third work in the Grabhorn Press’s series of Shakespeare’s plays. GB 537.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$150-250
312
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. Chronology of Twenty-Five Years: The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. San Francisco: Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, January 1954.
Folio. 26 facsimiles of Roxburghe Club announcements. Black clothbacked marbled boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 unnumbered copies, edited by George Dawson, and with a preface by Carl Wheat. GB 547.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
313
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). A Midsommer Nights Dreame. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1955.
4to. 7 color-printed woodcuts after Mary Grabhorn. (Scant spotting to a few leaves.) Original boards, woodcut label by Mary Grabhorn to upper cover, spine gilt, edges uncut; original slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 180 unnumbered copies of the fifth work in the Grabhorn Press’s series of Shakespeare’s plays. GB 567.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$150-250
314 [GRABHORN PRINTING]. [PALÓU, Francisco]. [MAGEE, David]. An Original Leaf from Francisco Palou’s Life of...Father Junipero Serra, 1787. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1958.
Folio. Original leaf from the first edition of Palóu’s Relación histórica de la vida y apostólicas tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junípero Serra (1787) tipped in; facsimile title-page of Palóu’s work, text printed in red and black. Original cream paper-covered stiff card boards, red paper lettering-piece on upper cover, uncut (some light spotting to board edges not affecting paper cover or text, some very minor soiling to paper covers, corners and edges slightly bumped, otherwise fine).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 177 unnumbered copies, presented by the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco during their visit to the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles. According to Magee, Palóu’s life of Father Serra was the first literary work written in San Francisco, and thus Palóu was the city’s first author. GB 598.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
315
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain,” 1835-1910). Concerning Cats. Two Tales by Mark Twain. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1959.
Small 4to. Photographic frontispiece, illustrations printed in red and black. Original black cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 450 unnumbered copies, printed in Elzevir type on all rag paper. Original prospectus laid in. GB 610.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
316
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. GRABHORN, Edwin. GRABHORN, Marjorie. Ukiyo-e “The Floating World.” San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for the California Book Club, 1962.
Folio. Color reproductions of 28 Japanese prints. Original black clothbacked patterned paper-covered boards, printed label on spine, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 400 unnumbered copies, describing Edwin and Marjorie Grabhorn’s collection of Japanese prints: “Since we can only have possession of these prints in our lifetime, we have always felt that it is up to us, as good custodians, to see that our inheritors get the same enjoyment from them that they have given us” (introduction). GB 638.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
317
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). The Taming of the Shrew. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1967.
Folio. 7 color-printed illustrations by Valenti Angelo. Original decorative cloth, spine gilt-lettered, uncut, by the Schuberth Bookbindery of San Francisco; original slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 375 unnumbered copies, printed on paper the same height as that of the tallest extant copy of the First Folio. Original prospectus and order blank laid in.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-150
318
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. BARNES, R. G., translator. An Anglo-Saxon Gnomic Poem. San Francisco: Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem, 1968.
Oblong 8vo. Printed in red and black. Original blue morocco-backed boards, spine gilt-lettered, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 400 unnumbered copies SIGNED BY BARNES.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
319
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. 40 Years. A Chronology of Announcements & Keepsakes. The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco 1928-1967. San Francisco: Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem, 1968.
Folio. Numerous facsimiles of Roxburghe Club announcements; printed in brown and black throughout. Original black cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards, stamp-signed by the Schuberth Bookbindery, San Francisco.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 150 unnumbered copies, compiled by Duncan Olmsted and David Magee. Grabhorn-Hoyem Bibliography 15.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
320
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. GRABHORN, Jane B., compiler. One Hundred & Sixty Cat Proverbs & Proverbial Similes. San Francisco: GrabhornHoyem, 1969.
8vo. Woodcut frontispiece printed in color, text printed in red and black. Original grey cloth, printed paper labels to upper cover and spine, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 unnumbered copies, including comments by William Shakespeare, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Lewis Carroll, Ambrose Bierce and others. Grabhorn-Hoyem Bibliography 21.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$100-200
321
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. Mother Goose: Twenty Nursery Rhymes. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970.
4to. 20 illustrations by Philip van Aver. Original tan linen, printed paper labels to upper cover and spine, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 unnumbered copies. Prospectus for Fall 1970 publications by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem laid in. Grabhorn-Hoyem Bibliography 40.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
323
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. A group of 7 works relating to California, comprising:
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[GRABHORN PRINTING]. A group of 9 Books about Books, comprising:
LANG, Andrew. Old French Title Pages. 1924. 12mo. Original vellum-backed boards. One of 725 copies. -- A personal and confidential letter to Fannie Hill from the Keeper of the Bedchamber, upon her leaving him to go under the care of the Roxburghe Club. 1929. 12mo. Original boards. -- The Grabhorn press. A Catalogue of Imprints in the Collection of Henry R. Wagner. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1938. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; original plain dust jacket. One of 250 copies. -- Commonwealth V. Gordon et al. 1949. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards; original slipcase. One of 500 copies. -- French Art of the Book. 1949. 4to. Original printed wrappers. One of 1200 copies. -- Les Architectes du Livre. Contemporary Creative French Bookbinding. 1956. 4to. Original printed wrappers. One of 400 copies. -- MAGEE, David. Two Gentlemen from Indiana. 1961. 4to. Original printed wrappers. One of 250 copies. -- HART, James D. A Tribute to Edwin Grabhorn 7 Grabhorn Press. San Francisco: The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 1969. 12mo. Original cloth; original plain dust jacket. One of 1000 copies. -- Notes on some early Grabhorn items together with some more or less impertinent comments. Tucson, AZ: The Desert Press, n.d. 8vo. Original printed wrappers.
LIMITED EDITION where indicated, published San Francisco, except where indicated.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
Ninety Years. The Story of William Parmer Fuller. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for W. P. Fuller & Co., 1939. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. -- Festivals in San Francisco. Stanford, CA: The Grabhorn Press for James Ladd Delkin, 1939. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 1,000 copies. Original prospectus laid in. -- AUSTIN, Leonard. Around the World in San Francisco. Stanford: The Grabhorn Press for James Ladd Delkin, 1940. Oblong 4to. Original cloth-backed boards; original printed dust jacket . One of 500 copies. Original prospectus and order blank laid on. -- [A Tribute to Albert Bender]. 1941. 4to. Original boards. One of 300 copies. -- FLAMMER, Charles. The Philosophy of Quality. A Way of Life. 1947. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. -- TRIPP, C. E. Ace High. The ‘Frisco Detective. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1948. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 500 copies. -- HARTE, Bret. San Francisco in 1866. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1951. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 400 copies.
LIMITED EDITION where indicated, published San Francisco, except where indicated.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$300-400
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. A group of 8 works relating to California, comprising:
BAER, Warren. The Duke of Sacramento. 1934. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 550 copies. Original prospectus laid in. -- LEWIS, Oscar. A. M. B. Some Aspects of his Life and Times... 1941. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. Original prospectus laid in. -- WAGNER, Henry R., translator. Memorials and Proposals of Señor Don José Martín on the Californias. 1945. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 250 copies. -- GREENHOOD, Clarence David. P. G. The Green Knight...in Memory of Porter Garnett. San Francisco: the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1951. 8vo. Original letterpress wrappers. -- HALE, John. California As It Is. 1954. 4to. Original clothbacked boards. One of 150 copies. -- PFEIFFER, Gustavus A. Philosophical Writings & Aphorisms. 1955. 4to. Original red morocco; original dust jacket. One of 200 copies specially bound of a total edition of 1000. -- FARQUHAR, Francis P., editor. The Ralston-Fry Wedding. Berkeley: The Grabhorn Press for the Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1961. 4to. Original printed wrappers. -- LEWIS, Oscar. The Wonderful City of Carrie Van Wie. 1963. Folio. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 525 copies.
LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated, published San Francisco, except where indicated.
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$300-400
325
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. A group of 6 works of literature, comprising:
CABELL, James Branch, editor. Sonnets from Antan. New York: The Grabhorn Press for the Fountain Press, 1929. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Number 130 of 718 copies SIGNED BY CABELL. -- ANTWERP, William C. van. A Collectors’ Comment on his First Editions of the Works of Sir Walter Scott. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc., 1932. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 400 copies. -- LICHTENSTEIN, Joy. In Praise of Walking. 1942. 8vo. Original wrappers. One of 500 copies. -- HUDSON, Hoyt. Celebration. 1945. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. -- R. L. S. to J. M. Barrie. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1962. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 475 copies. -- BIERCE, Ambrose. Write it Right. A Little Blacklist of Faults. 1971. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 400 copies.
LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated, published San Francisco by the Grabhorn Press or Grabhorn-Hoyem, except where indicated.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
326
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. A group of 6 works relating to religion and theology, comprising:
FIELD, Charles Kellogg. Prayer. San Francisco: Edwin and Robert Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1921. 8vo. Original boards. Number 300 of 330 copies. -- ELLIS, Havelock. Marriage Today and Tomorrow. 1929. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; original printed dust jacket. Number 145 of 500 copies SIGNED BY ELLIS. -- HEARD, Gerald. The Recollection. Stanford, CA: The Grabhorn Press for James Ladd Delkin, 1944. 12mo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 250 copies. -- LEVY, Harriet. “I Love to Talk About Myself.” 1947. 8vo. Original clothbacked boards. One of 500 copies. -- REICHERT, Irving Frederick. Judiasim & the American Jew. 1953. 4to. Original cloth. Number 1101 of 1500 copies. -- GILLIAM, Olive Kuntz. The Two Messiahs. 1960. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 350 copies.
ALL LIMITED EDITION, published San Francisco, except where indicated.
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$100-200
327
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. A group of 5 travel and exploration works, comprising:
TOWNSEND, John Wilson, editor. John Bradford’s Historial &c. Notes on Kentucky. 1932. 8vo. One of 500 copies. -- FARQUHAR, Francis P. A Brief Chronology of Discovery in the Pacific Ocean from Balboa to Capt. Cook’s First Voyage. 1943. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Compliment card from teh Farquhar’s laid in. -- [LAFAYETTE, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de]. A Letter from Lafayette. 1945. 4to. Original wrappers. One of 450 copies. -- SWING, Raymond Gram. Watchman, What of the Night? 1945. 4to. Original printed wrappers. One of 500 copies. -- FARQUHAR, Francis P. and Garfield MERNER. Flight to the North Pole 24 August 1949. 1950. 8vo. Original wrappers.
ALL LIMITED EDITIONS, published San Francisco.
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330
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[HUNTER, Dard]. BRADLEY, William Aspenwall (1878-1939). The Etching of Figures. Marlborough-on-Hudson, NY: Dard Hunter, 1915.
4to. Etched plate SIGNED BY BRADLEY lower margin laid in; title printed in red and black. Original vellumbacked boards, printed paper label on upper cover, uncut (vellum slightly soiled, a few small stains).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 unnumbered copies of the first book made by Dard Hunter. Produced with text by Bradley for the Chicago Society of Etchers, with their “Active Members...” list laid in.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$300-400
329
HUNTER, Dard (1883-1966). Old Papermaking. Chillicothe, OH: Dard Hunter, 1923.
Small folio. 9 specimen sheets of old paper tipped in; 28 full-page illustrations, 40 illustrations in text. (Some toning from glue.) Original boards, uncut and unopened (separations along lower joint, some toning).
LIMITED EDITION, number 125 of 200 copies SIGNED BY HUNTER. Old Papermaking was Hunter’s first deluxe book on papermaking, designated one of the “Fifty Books of the Year” by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Original prospectus laid in.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$1,500-2,500
*330
HUNTER, Dard (1883-1966). Primitive Papermaking: An Account of a Mexican Sojourn and of a Voyage to the Pacific Islands in Search of information, Implements, and Specimens Relating to the Making & Decorating of Bark-Paper. Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1927.
Folio. Frontispiece after a print of the Mountain House, numerous tipped-in samples of bark paper, plain and decorated, tipped-in photographs, illustrations. Loose as issued in half cloth portfolio, printed paper label, cloth ties. Provenance: Carmelita Gomez (correspondence laid in, see below); Henry Morris, publisher, Bird & Bull Press (correspondence laid in, see below).
LIMITED EDITION, number 189 of 200 copies SIGNED BY HUNTER.
[Laid in:]
3 typed letters signed, comprising 5 pages, on “Dard Hunter” watermarked paper, from Dard Hunter II to Henry Morris. February 9, February 17, and March 4, 1977. Regarding Morris’s purchase of 5 Dard Hunter books from Carmelita Gomez, and collecting works published by Dard Hunter and Bird and Bull Press. “I can’t for the life of me why [sic] you say you have so many problems in printing as well as papermaking. Your books do not show it, at least to a novice like myself.”
A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.
Property from The Estate of Charles S. Ackerman, Atlanta, Georgia
$2,000-3,000
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[MORRIS, William, his copy] -- [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, William (1834-1896). Gothic Architecture: A Lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1893.
16mo (145 x 102 mm). Printed in Golden type in black and red, 6-line and 40-line initial capitals, title-page printed in red and black, shoulder notes printed in red. Original holland-backed blue paper boards, printed title on upper cover, uncut (spine ends slightly frayed, some minor soiling or spotting to covers, spine, and fore-edge, hinges loose, vellum pastedowns slightly lifting at edges). Provenance: William Morris (signed and dated “William Morris Nov: 9th 1893” on second blank leaf, his Kelmscott House Hammersmith bookplate).
ONE OF 45 COPIES ON VELLUM. WILLIAM MORRIS’S COPY, SIGNED BY MORRIS WITH HIS BOOKPLATE.
One of 45 copies on vellum of a total edition of 1,545, FIRST ISSUE, with the mis-prints “gilds” for “guilds” in the shoulder note on p. 41, and “Van Eck” instead of “Van Eyck” p. 45 line 1. According to Peterson, the second state readings are present in both the second and third impressions and in all the vellum copies (unlike the present copy, and possibly unique).
Work on the book began in August 1893, before production moved to the New Gallery for the annual Arts and Crafts Exhibition. It “was printed in public, under the eyes of an interested and constantly renewed crowd, whose presence imposed a severe strain upon the pressman Collins’s Celtic modesty” (Sparling, The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman, 1924, p. 87). “It was the first book printed in 16mo. The four-line initials used in it appear here for the first time.” (Cockerell 18). Peterson A18 (recording another copy on vellum with Morris’s bookplate and a note by Cockerell recording its sale to Henry Gamman, later offered in the sale of the Estelle Doheny Collection, Christie’s New York, 19 May 1989, lot 2303).
$6,000-8,000
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[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. COCKERELL, Sydney C. (1867-1962). Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1897 [issued 1898].
4to (285 x 209 mm). Printed in Golden type in black and red, 35 reproductions of early woodcuts (process blocks by Walker & Boutall) printed on rectos only of 23 sheets, each with printed caption, printer’s device. (Slight marginal staining from binding pigment upper corner.) A VARIANT BINDING, POSSIBLY UNIQUE (see below), original dark green limp vellum, tan silk ties, spine gilt-lettered in Golden type, yapp edges (some very light wear to pigment at extremities, tiny stain on lower cover, otherwise fine); half morocco slipcase. Provenance: Sydney C. Cockerell (18671962), private secretary to William Morris, English Museum curator (signed in ink and dated “S. C. Cockerell April 1898”); Edith Rockefeller McCormick (1872-1932), American Socialite (bookplate on verso of third blank leaf; sold Anderson Galleries, 23 February 1934, lot 308).
ONE OF 8 COPIES PRINTED ON VELLUM. SIGNED BY SYDNEY COCKERELL & WITH WILLIAM MORRIS’S SIGNATURE pasted inside lower cover. Original letterpress prospectus laid in.
IN A VARIANT BINDING not mentioned in Cockerell or Peterson, who both call for the work to be bound in quarter holland, with printed blue paper over boards. The present copy with characteristic Golden type gilt lettering on spine: “on the spines of the vellum bindings, Morris often used enlarged versions of the Golden and Troy Types” (Peterson p. xxxv). A few green vellum bindings by J. and J. Leighton of London for the Kelmscott Press are known. In his “Annotated List of All the Books Printed at the Kelmscott Press in the Order in Which They Were Issued”, Cockerell mentions four copies of The Story of the Glittering Plain printed on vellum which “Mr. Morris had...bound in green vellum, three of which he gave to friends.” The Estelle Doheny collection included a copy of The Floure and the Leafe... in a “possibly unique” vellum binding; that work was also only issued in quarter holland, but the Doheny copy was accompanied by a letter from Cockerell to H. Buxton Forman explaining that “no copies of the Floure & the Leafe were issued officially in vellum, but there was a man at Hinchley who used to get us to bind his copies of the half holland books in vellum” (see her sale, Christie’s New York, 19 May 1989, Lot 2343).
One of 8 copies printed on vellum of a total edition of 233. At Morris’s request, starting in October 1892, Cockerell spent several years studying and cataloguing Morris’s collection of medieval manuscripts and incunabula; resulting from this project, Morris planned to issue a heavily illustrated catalogue of his library. After Morris’s death, the project was abandoned. Rather than print the work elsewhere, Cockerell “decided to combine the illustrations of woodcuts that had already been prepared... with portions of an article by Morris, ‘On the Artistic Qualities of the Woodcut Books of Ulm and Augsburg in the Fifteenth Century.’ ...The book sold briskly before publication. ‘There has been a great rush on the German woodcuts & they were all sold out last week,’ Cockerell wrote to Leighton on 30 November 1897.’...A good many people have been left out in the cold, as orders keep coming in! I suppose it is the announcement that the Press is closing that has made people so eager’” (Peterson). Cockerell 49; Peterson A49.
Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, married Harold Fowler McCormick, son of Cyrus Hall McCormick, and was prominent in Chicago social and cultural circles, supporting numerous social causes. She was a charter member of the Art Institute, supporting it both financially and with loans of works from her extensive art collection. McCormick also helped found the Grand Opera Company in 1909. A generous contributor to the Zurich Psychological society, she spearheaded the effort to have Carl Jung’s writings translated into English. The sale of her library in 1934 included over 120 works by John Ruskin bound by the Doves Bindery, as well as 9 works printed on vellum by the Kelmscott Press.
AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY, RARE PRINTED ON VELLUM, IN A VARIANT BINDING: We trace no copies of Some German Woodcuts printed on vellum at auction; we find no other copy of this work thus bound in vellum.
$20,000-$30,000
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[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, William (1834-1896). 2 later reprints of works by Morris, comprising:
Pre-Raphaelite Ballads. New York: A. Wessels Co., 1900. Text printed in red and black within wide decorative borders, illustrations and initials by K. M. O’Kane. Original tan linen-backed green printed boards (some light soiling or staining). LIMITED EDITION, number 181 of 500 copies on “Old Stratford” paper. -- The Wood Beyond the World. Boston: The Roberts House, 1895. Publisher’s green decorated cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (some soiling and staining). LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 unnumbered copies.
Property from the Collection of Richard Park
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[LIME KILN PRESS]. EVERSON, William. Blame it on the Jet Stream! [Santa Cruz, CA]: Lime Kiln Press, 1978.
Oblong 8vo. Woodcut frontispiece by Dennis Marks, title printed in blue and black. Original quarter blue morocco gilt, uncut (slight scuff to foot of spine, otherwise bright).
LIMITED EDITION, number 131 of 150 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON. Printed on Hayle paper, and bound by The Schuberth Bookbindery.
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$100-200
335 [MOUNTENEY, Leonard, binder]. LOUŸS, Pierre (1870-1925). Songs of Bilitis. Chicago: Argus Books, 1931.
8vo. Numerous illustrations after drawings by Denton. Blue crushed levant morocco, sides with borders of gilt fillets, floral tools gilt, and overall diaper-pattern background gilt, all surrounding a central vignette within gilt foliate border, ivory morocco onlay gilt depicting a woman under a trellis of red morocco onlay flowers gilt, gilt butterflies and insects, spine in five compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in three, the remaining two compartments of varying size with red morocco onlay and gilt floral design, board edges gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, red watered silk doublures and endpapers, stamp-signed: “Designed & Finished by L. Mounteney”; folding case.
ELABORATELY BOUND BY LEONARD MOUNTENEY, presumably during his tenure with the Cuneo Press Fine Binding Studio. Mounteney was wellregarded for his exhibition bindings. He worked as an extra finisher at Rivière in London until 1924, when he joined the Extra Bindery at R. R. Donnelley in Chicago. He left Donnelley in 1926 to join Cuneo’s hand bindery, also in Chicago. (For other bindings by the Cuneo Fine Binding Studio, see lots 284 and 290.) A SUPERB EXAMPLE.
$2,000-$3,000
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[NONESUCH PRESS]. FONTENELLE, Bernard le Bovier de (16571757). A Plurality of Worlds. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1929.
8vo. Headpieces printed in color and gold, title-page printed in red and black. Original limp vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (slight soiling); original slipcase (some wear to extremities).
LIMITED EDITION, number 332 of 1,200 copies, designed by Francis Meynell, printed at the Curwen Press; described by Meynell to Bennett Cerf at Random House as “a little peach of a book.”
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$100-200
337
POWYS, John Cowper (1872-1963). Lucifer, a Poem. London: Macdonald, 1956.
8vo. Wood-engraved illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker. Original quarter blue morocco gilt, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, number 90 of 560 copies SIGNED BY POWYS. Original prospectus laid in.
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$100-200
338
[ROGERS, Bruce, his copy]. DUSCHNES, Philip C. Bruce Rogers A Gentle Man From Indiana. N.p.: The Stinehour Press, 1965.
8vo. Facsimile invitation tipped in, printed in red and black. Original printed stiff paper wrappers cord-tied. Provenance: Bruce Rogers (bookplate indicating his gift to Purdue University).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 750 unnumbered copies. BRUCE ROGERS’ COPY, printed in his Centaur types.
[With:] BR A Panel Discussion at the Bruce Rogers Centenary held at Purdue University by Harry Duncan, K. K. Merker and Ward Ritchie. N.p.: Book Club of California, 1981. 12mo. Title printed in brown and black. Original brown cloth gilt. LIMITED EDITION, one of 650 unnumbered copies.
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$100-200
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[ROYCROFTERS]. A group of 4 works published by the Roycrofters, comprising:
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. The Essay on Friendship. 1899. -- EMERSON. Compensation. 1903. -- HEINE, Heinrich. The Book of Songs. 1903. -- IRVING, Washington. Rip Van Winkle. 1905. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, all published in East Aurora, NY, by the Roycrofters or Elbert Hubbard, all in original suede bindings (some fading or light wear).
$100-200
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[STANBROOK ABBEY PRESS]. SASSOON, Siegfried (18861967). Something about Myself. Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1966.
Small 4to. Line block illustrations after Margaret Adams, printed in blue, brown, and black throughout. Original thick cream paper wrappers, upper cover with central gilt cat, uncut (some minor staining, otherwise bright).
LIMITED EDITION, one of “about 400 copies” printed on Millbourn Lexpar, with cover paper by Barcham Green Ltd. (Butcher A14).
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$100-200 340
[STANBROOK ABBEY PRESS]. MARITAIN, Raïssa Oumansoff (18831960). Patriarch Tree. Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1965.
4to. Photographic portrait, printed in black, red, and green, text in French and English. Original quarter black morocco, decorated papercovered boards, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut; original slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, number 149 of 500 copies, printed in Romanée type on Barcham Green’s “Eltham” handmade paper, and bound by George Percival of Leicester.
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$150-250
342
[TIPOGRAFIA GIUNTINA]. ALDINGTON, Richard (1892-1962). Stepping Heavenward. Florence: G. Orioli, 1931.
8vo. Engraved device on half-title. Original cloth-backed yellow boards gilt, uncut (some light soiling); original slipcase (rubbed and with some losses).
LIMITED EDITION, number 36 of 808 copies SIGNED BY ALDINGTON. PRESENTATION COPY ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY ALDINGTON: “Eunice from Richard with all good wishes for a merry Christmas and two and forty happy new years?”
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$100-200
343
[TIPOGRAFIA GIUNTINA]. DOUGLAS, Norman (1868-1952). In the Beginning. [Florence: Tipografia Giuntina, directed by L. Franceschini], “Privately Printed 1927.”
8vo. Original decorated paper-covered boards, black leather lettering-piece gilt, uncut (lettering piece with wear to one side).
LIMITED EDITION, number 624 of 700 copies SIGNED BY DOUGLAS.
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[WARD RITCHIE’S COPIES]. A group of 5 works from Ward Ritchie’s collection with his bookplates, comprising:
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[WARD RITCHIE PRESS]. A group of 9 works, comprising:
Order Touched with Delight. Dove’s Books from the Press & Bindery of T. J. CobdenSanderson. Pasadena: Ward Ritchie, 1933. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. -- OCHARTE, Pedro. Cartilla Para Enseñar a Leer. Los Angeles: Press of Ward Ritchie for the Henry E. Huntington Library, 1935. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. One of 125 copies. -- The Book as a Work of Art. An Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts from the Library of Mrs. Edward Laurene Doheny. 1935. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. One of 650 copies SIGNED BY ESTELLE DOHENY, WARD RITCHIE and 3 others. -- COWAN, Robert Ernest. Forgotten Characters of Old San Francisco. 1938. 8vo. Original printed boards; original dust jacket. One of 500 copies. -- HAYDEN, Dorothea Hoaglin. These Pioneers. 1938. 8vo. Original clothbacked boards; original printed dust jacket. One of 250 copies. -- Seneca on Friendship. N.p: The Ward Ritchie Press for the Sunset Club, 1938. 8vo. Original quarter vellum. -- Ballads of Eldorado. San Francisco: The Ward Ritchie Press for the Book Club of California, 1940. 8vo. Original boards. One of 300 copies. -- RODGERS, Andrew D. Rocks Before the Mansion. 1940. 8vo. Original cloth with printed labels to upper cover and spine. -- WAGNER, Henry R. Collecting: Especially Books. 1968. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 400 copies.
LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated, published Los Angeles, except where indicated.
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ALDINGTON, Richard. Jane Austen. Pasadena: The Ampersand Press, 1948. 8vo. Original cloth; glassine. -- CHENEY, William M. Edwin H. CARPENTER, compiler. A Natural History of the Typestickers of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: The Rounce & Coffin Club, 1960. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. -- CLARY, William. W. Fifty Years of Book Collecting. Los Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom for the Zamorano Club, 1962. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. -- HYLEN, Arnold. Los Angeles Before the Freeways 1850-1950. Images of an Era. Los Angeles: Castle Press for Dawson’s Book Shop, 1981. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 600 copies. -- California Printing. San Francisco: Patrick Reagh for the Book Club of California, 1980-1987. 3 parts in 3 volumes, 4to. Original printed wrappers.
Together, 5 works in 7 volumes, LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated.
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$100-200
[WEATHER BIRD PRESS]. FISHER, Mary Frances Kennedy (1908-1992). The Standing and the Waiting. Fallbrook CA: Weather Bird Press, 1985.
8vo. Numerous stencil illustrations printed in color by Vance Gerry. Original maroon cloth gilt, uncut; original printed dust jacket.
LIMITED EDITION, number 122 of 125 copies SIGNED BY FISHER AND GERRY.
[With:] Twenty-five Years of the Weather Bird Press. Pasadena: Weather Bird Press, 1993. Original cloth-backed boards; original printed dust jacket. -- RITCHIE, Ward. A Southland Bohemia. Pasadena: Weather Bird Press, 1996. Original wrappers. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes.
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$150-250
347
[WILSON, Adrian]. KEES, Weldon. Poems 1947-1954. San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, 1954.
8vo. Title printed in brown and black. Brown cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards, original printed wraparound band (one short tear).
FIRST TRADE EDITION, designed and printed by Adrian Wilson, and issued in the same year as the limited edition, printed in only 25 copies with an original drawing by Kees.
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$100-200
348
[WILSON, Adrian]. WILSON, Joyce Lancaster. The Work & Play of Adrian Wilson: A Bibliography with Commentary. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983.
Folio. Photographic frontispiece, numerous illustrations in margins, numerous tipped-in facsimiles; printed in brown and black throughout. Original quarter morocco, linen-covered boards, spine gilt-lettered, uncut (a few faint stains on upper cover).
LIMITED EDITION, number 166 of 325 copies, designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley on Barcham Green handmade paper fabricated with a watermark of Adrian’s distinctive type juggler. Original prospectus laid in.
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$150-250
349
[YOLLA BOLLY PRESS]. FISHER, Mary Frances Kennedy (19081992). Boss Dog: A Fable in Six Parts. Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 1990.
8vo. Geographic typographic ornaments. Original blind-stamped yellow cloth; original slipcase.
LIMITED EDITION, number VIII of 65 copies SIGNED BY FISHER and bound in boards with a slipcase of a total edition of 255. Prospectus laid in.
[With:] ROBERTSON, James and Carolyn. Making Books in the Woods. Covelo, CA: Carolyn and James Robertson, The Yolla Bolly Press, 1997. Photographic illustrations. Handmade paper wrappers, letterpress inner wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, number 241 of 250 copies sewn by hand in handmade paper covers and SIGNED by James and Carolyn Robertson, of a total edition of 1000. Original order form and thank-you slip from the publisher laid in. -- Together, 2 works in 2 volumes.
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$150-250
[ZAMORANO CLUB]. HARDING, George L. Don Agustin V. Zamorano: Statesman, Soldier, Craftsman, and California’s First Printer. Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1934.
8vo. Portrait frontispiece, folding map. Original publisher’s brown cloth; original printed dust jacket (light soiling, a few nicks or tears with occasional minor losses). Provenance: J. W. Robinson Co. (bookseller’s ticket); Jacob Zeitlin (19021987) American bookseller and publisher (manuscript note); Ed Carpenter (note on his stationery, 12/11/92, laid in).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 325 unnumbered copies, published by the Zamorano Club to honor their epyonym. Prospectus laid in.
JACOB ZEITLIN’S COPY with his note: “Jake Zeitlin - Personal”. Carpenter’s note recalls his purchase from Zeitlin years before: “I have a vague recollection - after all these years - that he was a bit disconcerted when he noticed that he had sold his personal copy.”
[With:] The Hand of Zamorano. Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1956. Facsimile of a manuscript written by Zamorano. Original wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 unnumbered copies. SIGNED by Lawrence Clark Powell, President of the Zamorano Club and George L. Harding, the editor. -- The Zamorano Club: the first half century, 1928-1978. Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1978. Original boards. LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 unnumbered copies. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes.
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$100-200 351
[FINE PRESS]. A group of 10 Books about Books, comprising:
WINSHIP, George Parker. William Caxton & His Work. Berkeley: The University of California Press for the Book Arts Club, 1937. Original cloth; original printed dust jacket. One of 525 copies. -- The Dolphin. Fall 1940. No. 4, parts 1-3. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. 3 volumes, 4to. Part 1: original printed wrappers; parts 2 and 3: original cloth; glassine. -- WAGNER, Henry R. Collecting Especially Books. Los Angeles: Gregg Anderson for the Rounce & Coffin Club, 1941. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. One of 30 copies. -- A Commonplace Book for Typophiles. San Francisco: Grace Hoper Press for the Typophiles, 1961. 12mo. Original cloth-backed printed boards; glassine. One of 360 copies. -- MASON, John. Paper Making as an Artistic Craft. Leicester: Twelve by Eight Press, 1963. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. SIGNED BY MASON. -- RITCHIE, Ward. François-Louis Schmied. Artist Engraver Printer. Tucson: Graduate Library School and University Library of the University of Arizona Tucson, 1976. 8vo. Original cloth with printed label to upper cover. One of 750 copies. -- MARDERSTEIG, Giovanni. Die Officina Bodoni. Hamburg: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1979 4to, original cloth. One of 1500 copies. -- AMELUNG, Peter. Johan Zainer. The Elder & Younger. Los Angeles: Patrick Reagh for Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc., 1985. 4to. Original leaf from Hugo Ripelin’s Compendium Theologiae Veritatis (ca 1478-81) printed by Johan Zainer laid in. Original cloth. One of 159 copies. -- Matrix 7. No. 7, Winter 1987. Andoversford, Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1987. 4to. Original boards; printed dust jacket. One of 960 copies. Original prospectus for Matrix 8 laid in. -- ORIOLI, G. Adventures of a Bookseller. Florence: Privately printed by G. Orioli, n.d. 8vo. Original printed wrappers (upper cover detached). Number 196 of 300 copies. SIGNED BY ORIOLI.
Together, 10 works in 10 volumes, LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated.
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$300-400
352
[FINE PRESS]. A group of 11 works about California, comprising:
STROBRIDGE, Idah Meacham. The Land of Purple Shadows. Los Angeles: The Artemisia Bindery, 1909. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. -- STERLING, George, Genevieve Taggard and James Rorty, editors. Continent’s End. An Anthology of Contemporary California Poets. San Francisco: John Henry Nash for the Book Club of California, 1925. 8vo. Original vellum-backed boards. Number 246 of 600 copies. -- DANE, G. Ezra, editor. A Sojourn with Royalty and Other Sketches by “Old Block” (Alonzo Delano). San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press for George Fields, 1936. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Prospectus laid in. -- MASTERS, Edgar Lee. The Golden Fleece of California. Weston, VT: The Countryman Press, 1936. 8vo. Original cloth; glassine. One of 550 copies SIGNED BY MASTERS. -- HALL, Carroll Douglas. The Terry-Broderick Duel. San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1939. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Prospectus laid in. -- California. 1847-1952. San Marino, California: The Grabhorn Press for the Huntington Library, 1942. Oblong 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 700 copies. -- WHEAT, Carl I. The First One Hundred Years of Yankee California. Washington: The Library of Congress, 1949. 8vo. Original paper boards. One of 500 copies. -- CARSON, James H. Recollections of the California Mines. Oakland, California: Plantin Press for Biobooks, 1950. 8vo. Folding map. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 750 copies. -- DILLON, Richard H. Bully Waterman. San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club, 1956. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 125 copies. -- TAYLOR, M. The Gold Digger’s Song Book. San Francisco: Cranium Press for the Book Club of California, 1975. 8vo. Original leather-backed boards; original plain dust jacket. Number 148 of 450 copies. -- RITCHIE, Ward. Fine Printing. The Los Angeles Tradition. Washington: Patrick Reagh for the Library of Congress, 1987. 8vo. Original print wrappers. One of 1500 copies.
Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated.
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353
[FINE PRESS]. A group of 5 works relating to English printing and England, comprising:
MOORE, George. Ulick and Soracha. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. 8vo. Original cloth; printed parchment dust jacket. Number 259 of 1250 copies. -- COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930. 8vo. Original cloth-backed board; original plain dust jacket. One of 750 copies. -- DONNE, John. The Love Poems of John Donne. New Rochelle: The Peter Pauper Press, n.d. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 1000 copies. -- Victoria R. I. San Francisco: Press of Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem for David Magee, 1970. 3 volumes, 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 625 copies. -- [With:] THOMPSON, Virginia. French Riviera Villages. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1938. Original cloth. 4to. One of 1000 copies. Original cloth.
Together, 5 works in 7 volumes, ALL LIMITED EDITIONS. 354
[FINE PRESS]. A group of 6 fine press works, comprising:
FRACASTORO, Girolamo. William Van Wyck, translator. The Sinister Shepherd. Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1934. 8vo. Original cloth. One of 1000 copies. -- BRADLEY, John Hodgdon. Farewell Thou Busy World. Los Angeles: The Primavera Press, 1935. 12mo. Original cloth-backed boards. -- TOTHEROH, Dan. Johnny Appleseed. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for the Bohemian Club, 1946. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. -- FERGUSON, Kenneth. Maternus. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for the Bohemian Club, 1948. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; original plain dust jacket. -- BRYANT DAKIN, Susan. The Published Writings of Francis Peloubet Farquhar. San Francisco: Lawton Kennedy, 1954. 8vo. Original cloth. -- The Bloody Massacre. Barre, MA: David R. Godine for the Imprint Society, 1970. Oblong 4to. Print from the plate engraved by Paul Revere laid in. Original cloth. Number 159 of 950 copies.
Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated.
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$200-300
355
[FINE PRESS]. A group of 4 fine press works, comprising:
SIMON, André L. Star Chamber Revels. Peekskill, New York: Watch Hill Press, 1937. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; original glassine. One of 275 copies. -- The Complete Poems of R. G. Barnes. San Francisco: Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem for the University of Manitoba Press, 1968. 8vo. Accordion fold, Chinese-style stitched red boards. One of 150 copies. -- MACKLEY, George. Confessions of a Woodpecker. Surrey, England: Gresham Books Limited, 1981. 4to. Original quarter calf gilt. Number 110 of 250 copies SIGNED BY MACKLEY. An extra suite of illustrations loose in rear folding pocket. -- WILSON, Joyce Lancaster. The Swing. San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, 1981. 4to. Original printed wrappers. Number 14 of 300 copies SIGNED BY JOYCE WILSON AND ADRIAN WILSON, printer.
Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, ALL LIMITED EDITIONS.
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$200-300 Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
$200-300
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[MINIATURE BOOKS]. A group of 9 miniature books published Worcester, Massachusetts by Achille J. St. Onge, comprising:
The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 1953. -- BROOKS, Van Wyck. From A Writer’s Notebook. 1955. -- ADAMS, John Quincy. The Wants of Man. 1962. -- CROSS, Wilbur L. Thanksgiving Day Proclamations. 1963. -- JEFFERSON, Thomas. Thomas Jefferson on Science and Freedom. 1964. -- JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines. The Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson. 1965. -- Magna Carta of King John AD 1215. 1965. -- Historic American Flags. 1968. -- The Mayflower Compact. 1970.
Together 9 works in 9 volumes, ALL LIMITED EDITIONS, all in original publisher’s bindings.
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$100-200
[MINIATURE BOOKS]. A group of 13 works published Chicago, Illinois by the Black Cat Press, comprising:
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. My South Sea Island. 1936. -- FORGUE, Norman W. One Hundred Proverbs Adapted from the Japanese. 1960. -- LEGALLIENNE, Richard. Two Essays. 1961. -- BLUMENTHAL, Walter Hart. Book Gluttons and Book Gourmets.1962. -- WHITMAN, Walt. Death of Abraham Lincoln. 1962. -- WHITE, Robert W. History of the Cadiz Railroad. 1966. -- CONCIDINE, Francis. The “Dude” Retires. N.d. -- GALIENNE, Wilfred Hansford. Let Shakespeare Speak. N.d. -- J. B. H. Jr. A Christmas Story. N.d. -- SCHWARZWALD, Eugene. The Homecoming of the Lost Book. N.d. -- A Testament of Freedom. N.d. – A second copy in a variant binding. -- The Song of Songs, Which is Solomon’s. N.d.
Together, 13 works in 13 volumes, ALL LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated, all in original publisher’s bindings.
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$100-200
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[MINIATURE BOOKS]. A group of 18 miniature books, comprising:
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[MINIATURE BOOKS]. A group of 11 miniature books, comprising:
[HILLSIDE PRESS]. IRWIN, Frank. The Blocksberg Tryst. 1963. -- Diary of John Dee. 1963. -- HEARN, Lafcadio. Sketches of New Orleans. 1964. -- IRWIN, Frank. The Centuries of Nostradamus. 1964.
[SCHORI PRESS]. ANKENBRAND, Frank, Jr. Fireflies. 1965. -- Christmas Carols. N.d. -- Memories. An Anthology. N.d. -- A second copy in a variant binding.
[PRESS OF THE INDIANA KID]. Voyage Aboard the Jupiter. Napannee, Indiana: Press of the Indiana Kid for Maestro Books, 1969. -- WEYGAND, James Lamar. Adventure with Paper. An Encounter with a Meat Grinder. Napannee, Indiana: Press of the Indiana Kid for Maestro Books, 1969.
[KINOIKE PRESS]. KOCHAN, Bernice. The Little Book of Hawaiian Flowers. 1964.
Together, 11 works in 11 volumes, most LIMITED EDITIONS published by the Hillside Press of Franklin, New Hampshire, the Schori Press of Evanston, Illinois, the Press of the Indiana Kid for Maestro Books of Napannee, Indiana, or the Kinoike Press of Cleveland, Ohio.
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$100-200
The Little Cookie Book. Woodstock, VT: The Lilliputter Press, 1960. -- HAMSUN, Knut. The Call of Life. Ellington, CT: Private Press of Yankee Ink Dauber, 1962. -- FRIEND, John. Captain Jack. Long Beach: The Seahorse Press, 1963. -- CHENEY, Wm. M. A Treatise on Pocket Knives. Los Angeles: Wm. M. Cheney, 1964. -- Eulogies to John F. Kennedy. New Britian, CT: J. L. Kapica, 1964. -- The 12 June 1539 Contracts. Mexico, D. F.: G. M. Echaniz for Dawson’s Book Shop, 1964. -- NEAL, Tom. Sixth & Figueroa. Los Angeles: Wm. M. Cheney for Karen Dawson, 1965. -- L. C. P. Book Shops. Los Angeles: Wm. M. Cheney for Roy V. Boswell, 1965. -- BURGESS, Gelett. The Miniature Purple Cow. Pasadena: Grant Dahlstrom for Susan and Karen Dawson, 1966. -- JACKER, Corinne. A Little History of Cocoa. New York: Traders Press, 1967. -- ANDERSON, Alexander. Autobiography of an Early American Wood Engraver. New York: Traders Press, 1968. -- KOOPMAN, Harry Lyman. Miniature Books. Los Angeles: Grabhorn-Hoyem for Dawson’s Book Shop, 1968. -- LOW DE VINNE, Theodore. Upon Small Types. Brooklyn, New York: Traders Press, 1969. -- The Constitution of the United States of America. New York: The Sayre Ross Company, 1976. -- The Declaration of Independence. New York: The Sayre Ross Company, 1976. -- HILLARY, Roger R. The House on the Plaza. Monterey, Mexico: Hilleary & Petko, 1984. -- NETHERY, Wallace. Beach-La-Mar. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1988. -- Words of Gratitude. Boston: Bromer Booksellers, 1991.
Together, 18 works in 18 volumes, most LIMITED EDITIONS including works published by the Traders Press, Wm. M. Cheney, Dawson’s Book Shop, and Grabhorn-Hoyem, all in original publisher’s bindings.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
