Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$71.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated. Important reference work. Limited edition of 450 copies. California Star facsimile tipped-in. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (paper label on spine lightly edge worn).
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Carl I. Wheat. The Pioneer Press of California. Biobooks, Oakland, CA, 1948.
Price: US$84.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This 8.125 x 11.5 inch, 33 page hardcover book is the first edition of this title as published by Biobooks in 1948. This copy is in fine condition with just a touch of wear on the bottom corners as a quality issue to mention. This title was printed and bound by the Grabhorn Press and the marbled paper cover over boards and the red cloth spine covering with paper label are in beautiful condition. The interior text pages are also in fine condition with only the usual offsetting from the several facsimiles included in the book as condition issues to mention. The Grabhorn Press was in its hey-day at this point and the high quality of their work, and the imminent reputation and accomplishment of Carl Wheat, make this title important and valuable. 450 copies were printed in 1948 with decorative woodcuts by Mallette Dean to further highlight this book. 33 pages.
Seller: JDBFamily, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
WHEAT, Carl I.. The Pioneer Press of California.. Oakland, Biobooks, 1948., 1948.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Thin 4to. Publisher's note by Joseph A. Sullivan. 3 woodcut illustrations and title vignette by Mallette Dean; 3 facsimiles (inserted). Bibliographical references. Original 1/2 red cloth over marbled boards, paper spine label. Very good. 33 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Examples of early California printing at three presses. One of 450 unnumbered copies, printed by the Grabhorn Press in June, 1948. Magee 459. Rocq 5821.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Wheat, Carl I.. The Pioneer Press of California.. Biobooks, Oakland, California, 1948.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 450 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press of San Francisco. 32 pages; facsimiles; bound in marbled boards with red cloth spine, paper label. Fine clean copy with no marks. Deals with the Monterey Press, the Old Ames Press, and Sam Brannan's Press giving their history, use and production.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 28.5 x 20 cm, [ii], [32], Publisher's Note pp., printed in red and black with three tipped-in newspaper pages causing inevitable offsetting), deckle deges, printed by Grabhorn press in an edition of 450 copies, marbeled boards and red clothe spine, in glassine dust jacket. Essays on the beginning of the printing press in California. Covers the first printing press in Monterey; the "Old Ames" press, brought to San Diego in 1850; and Sam Brannan's press, brought around the Horn with him in 1846. The facsimiles include a document printed in Monterey in 1834, an issue of The Illustrated San Diego Herald for 1853, and an issue of The California Star for 1847. [Grabhorn: 459].
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Wheat, Carl I.. The Pioneer Press of California. The Grabhorn Press for Biobooks, Oakland, 1948.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of 450 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Quarto. [4] 33pp. Woodcuts by Mallette Dean, 3 facsimiles. Red cloth back, marbled boards, paper spine label. Offsetting from facsimiles (as usual), else a very fine copy. Essays on the beginning of the printing press in California. Covers the first printing press in Monterey; the "Old Ames" press, brought to San Diego in 1850; and Sam Brannan's press, brought around the Horn with him in 1846. The facsimiles include a document printed in Monterey in 1834, an issue of The Illustrated San Diego Herald for 1853, and an issue of The California Star for 1847. [Grabhorn: 459].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Wheat, Carl I.. The Pioneer Press of California.. Biobooks, Oakland, 1948.
Price: US$162.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Woodcuts by M. Dean. One of 450 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. A bright, tight, clean copy.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Wheat, Carl I.. Pioneer Press of California. , 1948.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1948 Hardcover Fine/No Dust Jacket Biobooks, Pub, Oakland, CA, 1948, limited to 450 copies, printed at the Grabhorn Press; Woodcuts by M Dean; fine condition, bound in 1/2 cloth and marbled paper over hard boards, with paper label at spine; Carl I Wheat, California History
Seller: Transmutation Publishing, Corning, CA, U.S.A.