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De Vinne, Theodore L.. The Plantin-Moretus Museum: A Printer's Paradise. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1929.

Price: US$145.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Small octavo. Nine page introduction by Oscar Lewis. Hand colored frontispiece portrait, and small hand colored decorative initial on page 3 by Valenti Angelo; vignette on title page. Full original gilts stamped vellum (three small fly specks on top edge). Endorsed in publisher plain blue bound slipcase. No dust jacket. Very good. 54 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Copy 166 of 425 copies. G.B. # 116.

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

De Vinne, Theodore L.. The Plantin-Moretus Museum A Printer's Paradise. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1929.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Gilt stamped vellum. 16mo. Numbered 260 of an edition limited to 425 copies. 54 pp. Near fine. Illustrated in color. Introduction by Oscar Lewis.

Seller: David Morrison Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

DE VINNE, THEODORE L.. The Plantin-Moretus Museum: A Printer's Paradise (signed). Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1929.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: An unnumbered one of 425 copies inscribed by Edwin Grabhorn, which is uncommon, as it was NOT a signed, limited edition. NEAR-FINE IN ORIGINAL VELLUM BINDING IN FINE SLIPCASE. Bookplate of Martin and Marjorie Fleischhacker Mitau.

Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

De Vinne, Theodore L.. The Plantin-Moretus Museum a printer's paradise. Grabhorn Press, [San Francisco], 1929.

Price: US$187.50 + shipping

Description: Edition limited to 425 copies (this, no. 169), pp. [16], 54; hand-colored frontispiece portrait (within the pagination), hand-colored incipient initial by Valenti Angelo; original gilt-decorated parchment, publisher's slipcase; fine throughout. From the library of Kim Merker. Grabhorn Bibliography 116.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

De Vinne, Theodore L.. The Plantin-Moretus Museum: A Printer's Paradise.. The Grabhorn Press, (San Francisco), 1929.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 425 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press, this copy out of series and not numbered. With presentation inscription from Edwin Grabhorn to Flodden Heron on limitation page. Introduction by Oscar Lewis. Hand-colored frontispiece and decorative initial by Valenti Angelo. 61/2 x 4 inches; full dark orange niger; spine with mock hinges, lettering in black, in slipcase. Spine faded; bookseller's catalog clipping tipped to front pastedown; offset tanning from leather to edges of front and rear endpapers and faintly on several foredges of front leaves. Presentation inscription from Edwin Grabhorn to bibliographer and collector Flodden Heron on limitation page. Grabhorn Press sometimes issued special leather bindings generally limited to about five copies.

Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.