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Magee, David. Catalogue of Some Five Hundred Examples of the Printing of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn 1917-1960. Two gentlemen from Indiana now resident in California. David Magee, San Francisco, 1961.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 28.5 x 22 cm., [xvi], 63 pp., title page printed in red and black, "Two Gentlemen from Indiana" is a 12 page appreciation and history of the Grabhorn Press written by David Magee and printed at the beginning of the catalogue, index. Advertisement for the bound edition laid in. This copy has many light pencil corrections and comments by a very knowledgeable person.

Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Magee, David. Two Gentlemen from Indiana, Now Resident in California. Privately Printed, San Francisco, 1961.

Price: US$37.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Wrapper. Limited to 250 copies printed by the Granhorn Press for the Grolier Club for their visit to San Francisco. [12] pages; paper wrapper with title on the cover (9 x 11 3/4 inch), 'Compliments of David Magee' slip layed inside the cover. After slow starts in the printing business in Indiana, Seattle and back in Indiana, Ed Grabhorn, this time accompanied by his brother, Robert, left Indiana for good in 1919 and moved to San Francisco. They became successful and have been referred to as the best printers in "the whole world". Reprinted from CALIFORNIA LIBRARIAN (October 1959).

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

Magee (David).. Two Gentlemen from Indiana now resident in California. Privately Printed, San Francisco, for the Grolier Club,, 1961.

Price: US$40.35 + shipping

Description: One of 250 copies Large 4to Fine copy An account of the founders of the Grabhorn Press.

Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom

Magee, David. Catalogue of some five hundred examples of the printing of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn 1917-1960. Two gentlemen from Indiana, now resident in California. Offered for sale at the book shop of David Magee. Grabhorn Press, [San Francisco, 1961.

Price: US$43.75 + shipping

Description: 4to, pp. xvi, 63, [1]; catalogue of some 493 examples, priced, annotated, and indexed, preceded by a short biography; creme paper wrappers, fine in a buckram clamshell box. With a printed note laid in, as issued, noting that a hard-bound edition limited to 250 copies was also available.

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

Magee, David. Two Gentlemen from Indiana Now Resident in California. Privately printed by David Magee, San Franciso, 1961.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: 28.5 x 22 cm., (xiv) pp., "This article first appeared in the California Librarian in 1959.Two hundred and fifty copies have been printed by the Grabhorn Press forr distribution to members of the Grolier Club as a small token of welcome on their first collective visit to San Francisco" Half title on cove red decorative device, " Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, Two Gentlemen from Indiana Now Resident in California" (epherema)

Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.

Magee, David. Two gentlemen from Indiana, now resident in California. privately printed [at the Grabhorn Press], San Francisco, 1961.

Price: US$56.25 + shipping

Description: Edition limited to 250 copies for distribution to members of the Grolier Club, 4to, pp. xv, [1]; hand-sewn into cream colored paper wrappers, upper cover printed in red and black; fine. In a custom cloth-covered clamshell box with paper spine label. Grabhorn Bibliography 623 noting that extra copies were printed for the Roxburghe Club.

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

Magee, David. Catalogue of Some Five Hundred Examples of the Printing of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, 1917-1960: Two Gentlemen from Indiana Now Resident in California. Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1961.

Price: US$75.60 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: T.p. cont'd: "Offered for sale at the book shop of David Magee." xv, [1], 63, [1] p.: frontispiece and 11 leaves of plates ; 30 cm. Original grey-tan cloth spine with decorated paper boards; printed paper spine label. One of 250 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Lacking the original plain dust jacket (as is usual), but with a clear protective jacket. Very nicely illustrated with photographs by Marjory Farquhar. Includes index. In Fine Condition.

Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.

MAGEE, David.. Catalogue of Some Five Hundred Examples of the Printing of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn - 1917-1960 - Two Gentlemen from Indiana - Now Resident in California.. San Francisco, Offered for Sale at the Book Shop of David Magee [1961]., 1961.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. 4to. Frontispiece, 11 halftones from b/w photographs. 1 page introduction by David Magee. Original 1/2 brown cloth with printed paper spine label over patterned boards. Plain dust jacket (unclipped). Fine. 63 pages. No signatures or bookplates. One of 250 copies, printed at the Grabhorn Press.

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

. Catalogue of some five hundred examples of the printing of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, 1917-1960; Two Gentlemen from Indiana, Now Resident in California (signed by the four Grabhorns and Sherwood Glover). Bookshop of David Magee, San Francisco, 1961.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: One of 250 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Signed by Robert, Edwin, Mary and Jane Grabhorn and Sherwood Grover each under his picture in the text. NEAR-FINE TO FINE. GRAY CLOTH SPINE WITH PATTERNED BOARDS. PAPER SPINE LABEL BRIGHT. INTERIOR CLEAN AND TIGHT. Bookplate of Martin and Marjorie Fleischhacker Mitau. Scarce with all these signatures.

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