Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$37.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 46 pp., illus. One fold-out which is a tipped-in facsimile of The Wasp". One of 550 copies issued by the Colt Press by William Roth and Jane Grabhorn. Boards are rubbed and faded along the edges.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 550 unnumbered copies. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing, especially the corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (LeRoy V. Brant) on the front pastedown page. The rear pastedown page has a very small inked number. "Grabhorn founded the Colt Press (19381942) in San Francisco with William M. Roth and Jane Swinerton. The press focused primarily on subjects related to California. Notable publications include their first, Lola Montez: The Mid-Victorian Bad Girl in California, by Oscar Lewis (1938) ; Kamehameha, King of the Hawaiian Islands, by Marie Louise Burke (1939) , which was chosen as one of the fifty "Books of the Year" by the American Institute of Graphic Arts; and McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank Norris (1941). Grabhorn set the type for the press and worked without pay during most of this period. Although she attempted to continue operating the Colt Press single-handedly after Roth left to join the Office of War Information in 1942, the press was forced to close." (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Important reference work. "The Wasp" sheet tipped-in. Limited edition of 500 copies. Fine copy. 46 pps.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [4], 45, [1] p., 1 folded facsimile of The Wasp; 25 cm. Red cloth spine with printed paper spine label. Patterned blue paper over boards. One of a limited edition of 550 copies isued from the Colt Press by William Roth and Jane Grabhorn in Feb. 1941. Printed in red and black with portrait of Ambrose Bierce on title page. Engraved bookplate of George Reed Salisbury on front fixed endpaper. In Very Good Condition: sunned along fore-edges of boards; slightly rubbed; spine label is intact; internally clean and crisp.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.