Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: One of 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. A FINE, CLEAN, TIGHT COPY INSIDE AND OUT WITH THE MOST MINOR WEAR AT SPINE ENDS. BOOKPLATE.
Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Grabhorn Press, 1956. Limited, one of 400 copies; includes prospectus; original cover with green cloth boards and black backstrip with title in gilt lettering on red leather label; cover lightly rubbed, corners and spine ends lightly rubbed/bumped; edges lightly soiled; endpapers and pages lightly age- toned; prospectus lightly age-toned with some foxing; binding tight; cover, edges, and interior intact and clean except as noted. Due to the size/weight of this item, additional shipping charges will apply on International or Expedited orders. hardcover. Good.
Seller: Munster & Company LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Folio. ix, [1], 141, [1] pp. Numerous full page facsimiles of title pages for pioneer publications in California. Publisher's quarter black cloth over green cloth, red morocco gilt spine label. Minor sunning to label, else a near fine copy.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original black and green cloth with red leather spine label; folio (9.5 x 13.5 inches); ix, (142) pp. Illustrated. Tiny chip to corner of spine label. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. Original prospectus laid in.
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Important reference work. Limited edition of 400 copies. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 142 pps.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$173.25 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: ix, [1], 141, [1] p.: frontispiece and 15 plates with captions in red; 35 cm. Original black cloth spine with green cloth over boards. Gilt-stamped spine title on leather spine label. One of a limited edition of 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. With prospectus. In Near Fine Condition: covers very lightly rubbed; otherwise a crisp and clean copy.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Four hundred copies printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Book Club Publication Number 94. ix, 142 pages; front portrait, illustrations; bibliography, index; bound in green cloth with black spine and red leather title label. History of the presses, publications and printers during the first twenty-five years of California printing history. Useful bibliography of 194 imprints covering the years 1833 to 1850. A handsome book (9 1/2 x 14 inch) with no markings of any kind. Very tiny chip from one corner of the leather spine label.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Folio, pp. [x], [142], and 16 full page photo plates. Limited to 400 copies and printed at the Grabhorn Press. Fine printing combined with very interesting history of this circumscribed, early period of California printing. Fine copy, with prospective laid in, and original plain heavy paper jacket.
Seller: PLAZA BOOKS ABAA, Port Townsend, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Limited to 400 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. Folio. ix, 142pp. 16 plates of samples; frontis portrait. Green and black two-tone cloth, red morocco spine label. A very fine, as new copy. An important and scholarly study on printing in California from the Mexican period (1821) to statehood, September 9, 1850. Includes a bibliography of imprints, list of newspapers, list of presses, and bibliographic sources. The classic reference. [BCC: 94; Grabhorn: 582].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: One of 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. pp. [x], [142], and 16 full-page photo plates. x, 142 pp. pp. [x], [142], and 16 full-page photo plates. x, 142 pp One of 400 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Ix, 142 Pp. , Black Cloth Spine With Morocco Spine Lab El, Gilt, Over Green Cloth, In Green Cloth Slipcase. Also With The Prospectus (Single Sheet Folded To Make 3 Pp), One Of 400 Copies, + "The California Spanish Press", Single Sheet Folded, 3 Pp., One Of 100 Copies Only. All Are Fine; Spine Label Unworn, Gilt Brilliant. Book Has 1" Square Leather Bookplate Of H. L. Doolittle, Pasadena, With Offset Onto Facing Front Free Endpaper. Slipcase With Slight Rubbing At Edges.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.