Magee, David. THE HUNDREDTH BOOK: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA & A HISTORY OF THE CLUB. The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1958.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: One of 400 copies. Folio (36.5cm); floral paper and beige linen-covered boards with gilt-stamped title label applied to spine; xxviii,79,[5]pp; illus. Hint of offset to front endpaper, else Fine, lacking the original plain paper dustjacket. Handsome bibliography, with numerous illustrations and facsimile title pages.

Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.

Magee, David. THE HUNDREDTH BOOK: A Bibliography of the Publications of The Book Club of California and a History of the Club. The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1958.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 80 p. Illustrated with full-page facsimiles, many in color. San Francisco: Printed at The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1958. First edition, limited to 400 copies. Prospectus laid in. Folio. Original decorative paper-covered boards over a linen spine, with a gilt-stamped paper spine label. Mild tanning along the extremities; else near fine.

Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.

[Palou, Francisco]. An Original Leaf from Francisco Palou's Life of the Venerable Father Junipero Serra, 1787. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1958.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. One of 177 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press for the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco as a keepsake of their joint meeting with the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles. Text by David Magee. Tall folio (15¼x10¼ inches). 16pp. Printed on rectos only. Title in red and black. Opening initial of text in red and gold. Original leaf and facsimile page within red rules. Handset Janson type on English handmade paper. Original cream stiff wrappers, center sewn, title in gold on red label on front cover. Spine area slightly darkened, but a fine and clean copy. The tipped-in leaf is from the first edition of Palou's Relacion Historica de la Vida y Apostolicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra (1787), the first and most authoritative life of the founding father of the California missions. [Grabhorn: 598].

Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

H. [Herbert] C. Schulz. French Illuminated Manuscripts, with an Original Leaf from a Miniature Book of Hours. Printed for David Magee at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1958.

Price: US$895.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 30 pp. plus blanks, 8vo (8 x 6 in.), quarter parchment, gilt spine title, patterned paper sides over boards, uncut, original plain paper dustjacket. With a tipped-in original leaf (with its protective plastic slip/"tissue" guard) from a fifteenth-century French Book of Hours (probably Paris), plus a reproduction from a miniature representing the Coronation of the Virgin, drawn and hand-colored by Mary Grabhorn. With orange rules throughout. Printed on English handmade paper. One of 200 copies. A fine copy of a lovely work, with a few scattered small and light age spots. Harlan 597; Chalmers 120.

Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.