Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cloth. First Edition. Very Good, Light Wear At Tips, No Marks, No Stains Or Foxing.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book in vg condition, minor wear.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 525 copies.
Seller: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A portfolio of 21 reproductions of oil paintings by Carrie Van Wie. The subjects of these paintings are pre-fire San Francisco buildings and notable city sights at the turn of the 20th century. Each with descriptive text by Oscar Lewis. Title page with a photographic portrait of Ms. Van Wie, and her painting of her home on Collins Street in San Francisco. One of 525 copies issued. --- In green paper-covered boards with the look of tapestries, backed in tan linen cloth with "Carrie Van Wie" printed on paper spine label. Unpaginated (about 50 pp.). Volume has no dust jacket. --- A clean, bright, tightly-bound copy but with slight chafing to lower cover edges.; Folio - 13 to 23 in. tall; [c.50 pp] pages
Seller: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original natural linen and decorative boards; folio (10 x 15 inches); unpaginated (54 pp); 21 color plates The paintings reproduced in the book belonged to Edwin Grabhorn FIrst edition, 525 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press.
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 525 copies printed. Lovely covers and cloth spine. Clean and bright throughout inside.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$59.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good book in very good condition, residue where bookplate removed. 1 of 525
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.95 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Book Club of California; Grabhorn Press. San Francisco. 1963. FIRST LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER in FINE Condition in FINE, plain kraft paper, Dustjacket (believed original). 1/ 525 copies. Outsider art consisting of paintings of San Francisco landmarks. A beautiful copy, suitable for gifting or collection. Carefully shipped in secure parcel. May incur extra shipping charges for international destinations.
Seller: virtualrarities, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: San Francisco: Printed at The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1963. First edition, one of only 525 copies printed. Executed by a previously unknown artist who was a life-long resident of the city, this historic collection of colorful oil paintings includes renderings of several notable landmarks in pre-fire San Francisco, including portions of the Presidio, City Hall, and Alcatraz Island. Lewis contributes a foreword and companion text briefly describing the subject of each painting. Linen spine over decorative paper-covered boards, with a printed paper spine label. Faint offsetting to the endpapers, with some minor wear along the bottom edge of the boards; otherwise a near fine copy in the original plain brown paper dust jacket.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited to 525 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Book Club of California publication #115. Fine in a linen-backed green-and-gray decorated boards (designed by Lawton Kennedy), paper spine label; in plain brown paper dustwrapper. Twenty-one paintings by the youthful artist, naïve in style, but providing important documentation of many of San Francisco's historical landmarks. The color reproductions are the size of the originals and were made from blocks engraved by Mary Grabhorn.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$93.00 + shipping
Description: Color plates. Limited edition of 525 copies. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth backed patterned boards. 525 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. The color reproductions included are the size of the originals. Carrie Van Wie was born in San Francisco in 1880. Her paintings of pre-earthquake San Francisco were done when she was in her 20's and turn out to be of great interest from a historical perspective.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Limited to 525 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. Folio. Full-page color reproductions from watercolor drawings, the blocks engraved by Mary Grabhorn & printed over collotype plates. Linen-backed patterned green boards, paper spine label lettered in dark green. The very slightest of offsetting to free endpapers. A very fine copy. Carrie Van Wie's turn of the century paintings of San Francisco scenes are here reproduced full size and provide a look at the city's attractions, many of which are no longer in existence. Oscar Lewis provides an historical perspective for each of the paintings. This was the Book Club's 1963 Christmas offering which celebrated 40 years of collaboration between Oscar Lewis, the Grabhorn Press and the Club.
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: With 21 plates, each preceded by a leaf of explanatory text. Original linen-backed patterned boards. An exquisite copy inscribed by Oscar Lewis. INSCRIBED BY OSCAR LEWIS. First edition, one of five hundred twenty-five copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Carrie Van Wie's paintings of San Francisco scenes are reproduced in full-page color from watercolor drawings, the blocks engraved by Mary Grabhorn and printed over collotype plates. This was the Book Club of California's 1963 Christmas offering which celebrated forty years of collaboration between Oscar Lewis, the Grabhorn Press and the Club. Van Wie (1880-1947), born in San Francisco, was a self-taught artist. Her works include watercolors and oils of historic sites in her native city where she spent her entire life, such as the Cliff House and Fort Point.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.