Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$138.00 + shipping
Description: One of 300 copies printed by the L-D Allen Press, at Villa Deveron, Cagnes-sur-mer, France. 68 pages. With the Book Club prospectus laid in. Four full page color illustrations by Ray Bethers. Small octavo. White flexible boards with titles in red on front and black on spine. In glassine wrapper. Housed in folded board portfolio with spine title in gilt, and then housed in a slipcase. Cover fine as has been proected by glassine and slipcase. Glssine is very good, portfolio and slipcase very good. Light foxing to endpapers and margins. Prospectus is fine. Prospectus states that this is "The first Club book to be produced outside the United States. Printed in two colors from Garamond type, hand-set, on Richard de Bas handmade paper" Very Good in Very Good Slipcase
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$169.95 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 60 pages. This is the first Club book to be produced outside the United States. Limited to 300 copies, was hand-set in Garamond types, and was printed on a French hand-press; the paper, hand-made is from the mediveal mill of Richard e Bas. Decorations by Ray Bethers. Printed in France for the Book Club of California by the L.D. Allen Press. Laid in is the annoucement edited by Edith M. Coulter. An absolute fine copy bound in stiff paper wraps in the original glassine wrapper, housed within publisher's chemise and slipcase. An exceptionally nice copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 60 pp., illustrated, 8 x 5.5", edges untrimmed, flexible card wrappers with title printed on upper panel and spine, original glassine dustjacket, chemise and slipcase. Title page printed in terra cotta, blue and black. Handset in Garamond types and printed on a French handpress on handmade paper from the Richard de Bas mill in France. Illustrations in blue, terra cotta, black and gold by Ray Bethers. One of 300 copies designed and printed by Dorothy and Lewis in France during their stay during 1951-52. Book and glassine dustjacket in pristine condition; light fingersoiling to chemise and top panel of slipcase. The Hundredth Book [Book Club of California Bibliography] 81; Allen Press Bibliography 11.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. La Porte De Maletroit. The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1952.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Light edgewear and to slipcase and spine of inner slipcase. Light rrubbing and a few spots to outer slipcase; Book in original onionskin jacket is fine. Published for the Book Club of California by L-D Allen Press, Cagnes-Sur-Mer, France in an edition of 300 copies. Fine in Very Good+ slipcase.; Color Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 60 p.
Seller: Berkshire Books, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. La Porte De Maletroit. The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1952.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated dust wrapper with cellophane over wrappers. Folding slip case and slip case. 300 copies printed by the Allen Press. Printed in France. Printed on a French hand press on hand-made paper from the medieval mill of Richard de Bas. Page sides and bottoms are uncut. A short story of happenstance. London in 1429. Denis de Beaulieu, returning from a pleasant visit at a friend's home on a dark and blustery night, takes a wrong turn and happens upon a house where an old gentleman, a stranger, sees him and says, "Pray step in, I have been expecting you all the evening".
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: One of 300 copies. 4 full-page color illustrations; decorations by Ray Bethers. 60 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Allen Press Bibliography 11 Bound in cream wrappers with slipcase and chemise. Fine 4 full-page color illustrations; decorations by Ray Bethers. 60 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small octavo: 5 ½ in. x 8 in. 60 pp. 4 full-page plates and two decorative initials and other decorations by Ray Bethers. One of an edition limited to 300 copies printed by Louis and Dorothy Allen on a French hand press and on handmade paper. Cream wrappers, lettering in red and blue on front cover and on spine. With the original glassine dust wrapper, chemise and slipcase. The slipcase has a small bump to one of the spines edges. The book is bound in the French style with flexible covers and enclosed in an attractive slipcase with title stamped in gold.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: One of 300 copies. 4 full-page color illustrations; decorations by Ray Bethers. 1 vols. 8vo. Allen Press Bibliography 11 Bound in cream wrappers with slipcase and chemise. Fine 4 full-page color illustrations; decorations by Ray Bethers. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: One of 300 copies. Printed on French handmade paper Octavo. 60 pp. Decorations by Ray Bethers. Cream-colored wrapperw, in glassine covering. Fine in slipcase.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
STEVENSON, Robert Louis. LA PORTE DE MALETROIT. SF, BK CLUB OF CA, 1952, 1952.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: ALLEN PRESS FINE
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.