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Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine backstrip is missing approx. 3/4" from the top end. Loss includes part of the spine label - last word of title, last word of author's name. ; Copy #427 of 500. Printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 32 Pp. #166 Of 500 Copies Of A Limited, Numbered Edition. Green Boards, Printed Spine Label. Clean, No Names Or Marks, Tiny Frays At Corners Of Spine And At Two Lower Tips, Short Tear Under 1/4" To Surface Of Green Paper On Spine But Not Tearing Through It, Leaving A Flap Which Can Be Removed.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Colophon]: "Printed by The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1929. The frontispiece designed and cut in wood by Ray Boynton. The edition consists of 50 copies [-] and 450 copies numbered 51 to 500. This is copy No. 248". 6 1/8 inches x 9 in., frontispiece; [8]pp., 32 pp. + numbered colophon page with printer's device. Dark green paper over boards, with a mounted, printed paper title label on the spine. The spine ends and cover corners show some wear. Contains 22 poems, including: The Cattle Camp (Night & Dawn); Billy Craddock at the Railroad; The Blitzen Oasis After Rain; The Old Chief; Thoughts in Harney Valley; Night and the Desert; Sage Brush. 22
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. [8], 32, [2] pp. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. by Ray Boynton. Vellum-backed gray boards, vellum corners, printed spine label, w/ original open-backed gray slipcase (very minor edgewear, wear to 1 corner), still F/VG copy, signed by both author & artist on frontisp., and inscribed and signed again by Wood to Leon Gelber, noting his appreciation and long friendship. First edition, No. 2 of 50 copies printed on handmade paper, signed and numbered, and inscribed. Published the same year as a new expanded edition of Poet in the Desert, the noted Portland author's (1852-1944) epic Jeremiad poem judging man's ills and civilization. This work consisted of twenty-two western cowboy poems recalling the conditions and life of the cowboy pushing cattle. Wood was an early settler in the Oregon country after fighting in the Nez Perce Indian Wars, and later a lawyer, author, editor, as well as a supporter of the Wobblies, an anarchist, and advocate of the Free Love movement. Gelber (1891-1947) a Romanian-American book salesman and antiquarian, joined with Theodore Max Lilienthal (1893-1972) in establishing the Gelber-Lilienthal Book Shop at 336 Sutter, with Gelber as president, who also founded the Lantern Press publishing Company which printed a number of their editions at the Grabhorn Press, including Hildegard Flanner, A Tree in Bloom (1924), Jake Zeitlin's Whispers and Chants (1927) with illustrations by Valenti Angelo, and many others. Magee, Grabhorn Press, 121; Kevin Starr, Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s, pp. 325-328; Bingham, Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1990), pp. 33-34; Julie Melby, The Gelber-Lilenthal Book Shop of San Francisco, Graphic Arts Exhibitions, Princeton University Library (2010).
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.