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Arnstein, Flora J.. A Legacy of Hours. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, CA, 1927.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 61 pages, 12mo. Missing slipcase. Limited Edition of 250 copies printed on Bodleian Book. Minor shelfwear: light scuffing along edges and covers, light tanning. Tighty bound. Volume is in Very Good condition.

Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

ARNSTEIN, Flora.. A LEGACY OF HOURS.. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1927. Private Press., 1927.

Price: US$33.56 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 61pp. A very good hardback copy. Gold-stamped calf spine has a small chip to it. Decorated papered boards are clean and bright. Complete in slightly faded and chipped blue card slipcase. Uncut pages. Printed on Bodleian Book. Limited edition of 250 copies, signed by author.

Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia

Arnstein, Flora J.. A Legacy of Hours.. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1927.

Price: US$43.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of 250 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press in November of 1927.

Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Zeitlin, Jake (Jacob Israel).. FOR WHISPERS & CHANTS.. The Lantern Press, San Francisco: 1927., 1927.

Price: US$55.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 20p. + Color frontis drawing by Valentine Angelo. Wide margins. XLib. Tall thin 8vo. Original full paper binding. Soiled with XLib label on front cover. Hardbound. Limited Edition of only 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. This copy is number 478. The first book by the great bookseller Jake Zeitlin. PRESS/W32 Language: eng

Seller: FAMILY ALBUM, Kinzers, PA, U.S.A.

Arnstein, Flora J.. A Legacy of Hours. Grabhorn Press, 1927.

Price: US$56.20 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed. First Edition. Limited edition of 250 copies. Signed by the author on the front free page: Flora J. Arnstein. Sunned covers. No other markings in lightly read book. Binding is tight. No DJ. 61pp.

Seller: Orca Knowledge Systems, Inc., Novato, CA, U.S.A.

(Watson, James). A CONTEMPLATION UPON THE MYSTERY OF MAN'S REGENERATION IN AFFUSION TO THE MYSTERY OF PRINTING. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1927.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: (1927). 6 printed pages. Reprinted from Watson's History of the Art of Printing, published in 1713. Bound in brown paper over boards. Very good, wrappers. (107)

Seller: Colorado Pioneer Books, Centennial, CO, U.S.A.

. A Contemplation Upon the Mystery of Man's Regeneration in Allusion to the Mystery of Printing. MCMXXVIII. Compliments of The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco.. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1927.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: One of approximately 125 copies beautifully printed for complimentary distribution in 1927 as a Christmas and New Year's greeting by the Grabhorn Press. Thin octavo. [12]pp. Decorative initial printed in orange; colophon in red; text underlined with gold rule, gold rule borders. Title illustration by Donald McKay. Handset Cloister Black type. Tan boards, title and illustration in black on front cover. Very small nick to head of spine, but a fine and clean copy. An excerpt reprinted from James Watson's History of the Art of Printing, published in Edinburgh in 1713. The colophon dates the book 1927, though the cover title reads 1928. Beautifully printed. [Grabhorn: 102].

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

Robertson, John W.. Francis Drake & other early Explorers Along the Pacific Coast. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, CA, 1927.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Limited Edition, one of 1000 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Original publisher's brown paper-covered boards backed with white vellum. Gilt lettering on spine. 7 1/2" x 10 3/4." 290 pages, complete. Twenty-eight maps in black-and-white and color and additional black-and-white illustrations, complete. Many of the maps are full-page, most are in color, and one is a black-and-white folding map. Back colophon: "1000 copies of this book printed at The Grabhorn Press by Edwin Grabhorn, San Francisco." Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Slight rubbing and occasional small mark on covers and spine. Occasional offsetting on pages from plates and illustrations. A Fine copy. A history of California with an emphasis on early explorers to the region. Contents are listed as follows: "Cortes, the Discoverer," "Indians of California," "Jesuit Survey of Baja California," "Drake's Voyage in the South Sea," "The Harbor of St. Francis," "Appendix," and "Index."

Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

DRAKE Francis. (By J. W. Robertson).. Francis Drake. And Other Early Explorers along the Pacific Coast.. 1927, 1927.

Price: US$134.23 + shipping

Description: San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1927. Sm. 4to. Orig. vellum-backed boards. (x 292pp.). With col. frontisp. 27 colour maps 2 full-page illusts. and 8 test-illusts. Mild water damage on title-page and toning on back end-paper. Includes several interesting newspaper cuttings loosely inserted. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Uncut.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

Robertson, John W.. Francis Drake & Other Early Explorers Along the Pacific Coast. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, EB, 1927.

Price: US$149.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. 4to. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1927. 290 pgs. Illustrated with 5 full-page colored maps, including frontispiece, one folded maps, 21 maps in-text. 5 headpieces, 5 tailpieces, and 5 decorative initials. Maps adapted from original sources by Valenti Angelo, who also designed the text ornaments. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by printer Ed Grabhorn: First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Bound in original half vellum and brown paper covered boards. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (bump present to the top edge of the front board. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. One of "Elizabeth’s Explorers" alongside Hawkins and Thomas Cavendish, Drake was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe from 1577-80. The Grabhorn Press founded in San Francisco in 1920 was "one of the foremost producers of finely printed books in twentieth-century America." EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 290 pages

Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.

John W. Robertson. Francis Drake and Other Early Explorers Along the Pacific Coast. Grabhorn Press, E-180, 1927.

Price: US$149.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. 4to. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1927. 290 pgs. Illustrated with 5 full-page colored maps, including frontispiece, one folded maps, 21 maps in-text. 5 headpieces, 5 tailpieces, and 5 decorative initials. Maps adapted from original sources by Valenti Angelo, who also designed the text ornaments. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by printer Ed Grabhorn: First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Bound in original half vellum and brown paper covered boards. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (bump present to the top edge of the front board. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. One of "Elizabeth’s Explorers" alongside Hawkins and Thomas Cavendish, Drake was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe from 1577-80. The Grabhorn Press founded in San Francisco in 1920 was "one of the foremost producers of finely printed books in twentieth-century America." E-180; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 290 pages

Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Valenti Angelo. THE GOLDEN TOUCH. Grabhorn Press, (San Francisco), 1927.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: First edition thus: limited edition with two hand-colored illustrations by Angelo and SIGNED by him. One of only 240 copies. 8vo parchment backed pale blue and gold decorated paper boards, gilt-lettered spine; pages uncut. A Grabhorn "Fifty Books of the Year" selection. Tiny chip in parchment at head of spine otherwise fine in fine, original glassine.

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

Charles Gilman and Kathleen Norris.. Christmas MCMXXVI.. [San Francisco, CA: Grabhorn Press]., 1927.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 12mo. [4 pp.] Folded Card, Letterpress on Wove, Gothic Script with decorative border. Very Good. Charles Gilman Norris was brother to novelist Frank Norris.

Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Charles Gilman and Kathleen Norris.. May Ev'ry Joy With Which This Day is Fraught.. [San Francisco, CA: Grabhorn Press, ca. 1927]., 1927.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Printed Card 4 x 6.25 inches, Gothic Script with monochrome photograph of Charles Gilman and Kathleen Norris. Very Good. Charles Gilman Norris was brother to novelist Frank Norris.

Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

(Grabhorn Press). Robertson, John W.. FRANCIS DRAKE and Other Early Explorers Along the Pacific Coast. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1927.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Original half vellum and brown boards, octavo, [7], 290 pp. 5 full-page colored maps, including frontispiece, one folded maps, 21 maps in-text. 5 headpieces, 5 tailpieces, and 5 decorative initials. Maps adapted from original sources by Valenti Angelo, who also designed the text ornaments. Slight discoloration to vellum spine, bit of foxing to first couple leaves, else very good in lightly worn slipcase. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by printer Ed Grabhorn: "To L. B. McMurtry with the best wishes of E. Grabhorn, Oct. 7, 27." Chosen as 1 of the "50 Books of the Year" for 1927 by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Cowan p. 536; Hill #1459; Heller & Magee 90.

Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.

Zeitlin, Jake; Sandburg, Carl (Foreword); Angelo, Valenti (Frontispiece). For Whispers & Chants. The Lantern Press [printed by the Grabhorn Press], San Francisco, 1927.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: No. 203 of 500, quarto size, 29 pp. "For Whispers & Chants" is a collection of poems by influential Los Angeles bookseller and poet Jake Zeitlin (1902-1987), who worked as a rare books dealer for sixty years, co-founded the Rounce & Coffin Club, and started his own fine press, the Primavera Press. The poems whisper of the southwest, and indeed, the volume is dedicated "To Texas, great treasure-cache of poems and legends". Zeitlin had, at the time of this publication, seen himself as a poet, in the tradition of Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost; this volume "was greeted in Los Angeles as the harbinger of a poetic career about to skyrocket" (n.b., Starr, "Material Dreams", see below). This publication by the Grabhorn Press was listed as one of the Fifty Books of the year, and includes a frontispiece by Valenti Angelo (1897-1982), a highly regarded designer, illuminator, and decorator of books over a career that spanned decades, doing much of his early work for the Grabhorn Press and the Book Club of California. ___DESCRIPTION: Full yellow paper, red lettering and decoration inside blue ruled borders on the front board, brown lettering on the spine, fore- and bottom edges uncut, coloured frontispiece by Valenti Angelo, title page with printer's device; Goudy Modern type, Ingres paper, quarto size (10.25" by 6.75"), pagination: [i-viii] [1] 2-20 [1 colophon], one of 500 copies, this number 203. ___CONDITION: Volume is very good plus, with a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; light soiling to the boards, some minute rubbing to the corners, the head and tail of the spine, the paper covering along the front joint just beginning to crack, and with some off-setting to the endpapers. ___CITATION: Grabhorn Press Bibliography, no. 96; Kevin Starr, "Material Dreams, Southern California Through the 1920s", p. 326. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.

Jake Zeitlin; Carl Sandburg (fwd.). For Whispers & Chants. Lantern Press, San Francisco, 1927.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [viii], 20, [1] pp., color frontispiece illustration by Valenti Angelo, 8vo, later quarter marbled-paper backstrip with mounted paper title label, yellow laid paper sides, edges untrimmed. Printed by the Grabhorn Press on Ingres laid paper. The Lantern Press was the imprint of the San Francisco bookselling firm Gelber-Lilienthal, this being a book of poems by the notable Los Angeles rare book dealer Jake Zeitlin. No. 185 of 450 copies (of a total edition of 500). This copy bears a notable California-centric provenance: (1) Mrs. Le Roy Crummer, an authority on Elizabethan literature (and widow of the notable cardiologist and professor of the history of medicine at the University of California and later at USC whose exceptional collection of books and materials on the history of medicine is now at his alma mater, the University of Michigan), with a presentation inscription on the front blank from Zeitlin ("This impertinence against all your fine Keats and Shelleys") and (2) James Strohn Copley (1916-1973), the journalist, newspaperman, and publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune (his sale, Sotheby's, June 17, 2010, lot 235), with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Small "Zeitlin Books" bookseller label on rear pastedown. A very good copy overall; contents fine, front cover lightly dust-soiled, scattered light smudges on the rear cover, lower tips lightly rubbed, light offsetting on free endpapers. An AIGA Fifty Books of the Year for 1927. Heller and Magee 96.

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

Robertson, John W.. Francis Drake & other early Explorers along the Pacific Coast.. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press Mcmxxvii [1927]. One of 1000 copies printed by Edwin Grabhorn., 1927.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 7 1/8 inches x 10 5/8 in., frontispiece map, design title-page printed in red and black; contents; list of 28 maps reproduced (some are in colors). [8]pp., pp. [1]-290, including index, + printer's page. vignette type drawings, illustrations/decorations by Valent Angelo. Various sized maps reproduced, one is a fold-out. Vellum spine with gilt-lettered titling on the spine, brown paper over boards, deckled edge paper; most pages are unopened. Small nick to the spine, dusting to spine, there is some light offsetting from some of the map images to the pages. A near fine copy. With the bookplate of Cleveland, Ohio based book collector, William G. Mather (1857-1951), on the front paste-down endpaper. Without the slipcase. Weight: 2 1/2 lbs.

Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.

Zeitlin, Jake; Illustration by Valenti Angelo. For Whispers and Chants (Association Copy). The Lantern Press, San Francisco, 1927.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: #172 of 450 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press on Ingres paper, there were an additional 50 copies, #ed 1-50, printed on Van Gelder hand made paper and signed by the author. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -"For Gary, Here's to the future Jake May 20, 1976" . Association Copy, from the collection of Gary Steigerwald, who at the time worked as a bookseller for Jake. Very Good, the paper at spine missing and torn, binding still holding nicely. Size: Tall 8vo

Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

(Jastrow, Morris, Jr.). A Gentle Cynic: Being a Translation of the Book of Koheleth Known As Ecclesiastes by Morris Jastrow Jr.. Grabhorn Press, San Fransciso, 1927.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited edition, this hand-numbered 106 of 250 copies, printed and bound at the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Full vellum, somewhat tanned, two bands of ribbon ties, unpaginated. Illustrations by Valenti Angelo. Bookplate of an etching of a clipper ship from the library of William Searby, below which is a gift inscription dated 1928. With its original brown cardboard slipcase which is stained and missing its backstrip. Internals of the book are quite nice. An uncommon Grabhorn item.

Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.