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Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED. Folio [42 cm] 1/2 brown suede with with yellow, tan and orange striped cloth covered boards. Good. The extremities are rubbed and have large areas of damp staining. The top and bottom edges of the text block have numerous light moisture stains. The cloth is mildly frayed along the edges, and the underlying boards are peeking through at the corners. The boards are slightly concave and soiled. The front endsheet is lightly stained, and there is a very small light stain on the title page. Very minor damp staining on the rear pastedown. Several newspaper articles have been mounted to the rear flyleaves, and they are surrounded by large dark patches. All of the photographs are present. May require extra postage due to size and weight.Extra charges apply on this item due to weight. Number 240 of 487. Signed by Richard Elkus, Edwin Grabhorn and Robert Grabhorn on the limitation page. With a letter signed by Richard J. Elkus mounted to the front pastedown.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Elkus, Richard J.. Alamos: A Philosophy in Living. Grabhorn Press, 1965.
Price: US$156.25 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. One-half brown suede with yellow, tan, and orange striped cloth covers. Embossed title in black on front cover. Pages deckle edged. Photographs and essay by the author. The last major book of the Grabhorn Press. 24 B/W mounted photographs. Signed by Elkus and Robert and Edwin Grabhorn on colophon page. Limited edition, #76/487 copies. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy. Folded prospectus for book enclosed.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No. 83 of 487 copies, elephant folio size, approximately [100] pp., signed by Richard Elkus, Robert and Edwin Grabhorn, with prospectus. The last major book of the Grabhorn Press, "Alamos" is a collection of photographs by Richard Elkus, capturing the poetry of the town of Alamos in Mexico; the photographs, a mix of landscapes and portraits, have a gritty serenity and a real sense of the character of the town. The titles of each photograph, printed on the preceding pages, resonate with a poetry rich with description. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter brown suede with orange, beige, and tan linen boards, title blind-embossed on the front board, fore-edge rough cut, title page in red and black, twenty-four black-and-white photographs tipped in throughout, all versos blank; Goudy Modern type, machine-made paper, elephant folio size (17" by 13"), approximately 100 unnumbered pages, one of 487 copies, this number 83, signed by Richard Elkus, Robert and Edwin Grabhorn on the colophon. Loosely laid in is the prospectus, one sheet folded once, with a horizontal crease. ___CONDITION: Volume is just about fine; the covers clean, the corners straight and unrubbed, the binding tight with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and free of prior owner markings; a hint of sunning to the front board and a bit of fraying to the cloth where it meets the leather shelfback, else fine. The prospectus also near fine, clean, without wear except for a couple very small, shallow creases at the horizontal mailing fold. ___CITATION: Grabhorn Press Bibliography no. 653. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an unusually large and heavy book, and therefore additional postage may apply; 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.
Price: US$221.62 + shipping
Description: Folio (43 x 33 cm.). [36] Bl. u. 24 mont. Tafeln. Orig.-Halbrauledereinband mit blindgepr. Deckeltitel. Harlan, Grabhorn Press Bibliography 653. - Erste und einzige Ausgabe. - Eines von 487 num. Exemplaren (No. 59); im Druckvermerk von R. J. Elkus und den Verlegern Edwin u. Robert Grabhorn signiert. - "The photographic plates were engraved by the Walter J. Mann Co. and printed by the H. S. Crocker Co." - "The last major book of the press" (Harlan). - Der US-amerik. Bankier und Industriemagnat R. J. Elkus (1910-1999), war u. a. Präsident verschiedener amerik. Banken (First National Bank San Mateo County, Redwood City, Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco) und Direktor der United States Leasing Corporation, Board Ampex Corporation, Redwood City und der Merc. Credit Company, London, Barclays Bank California. - Vorderdeckel etwas fleckig und an den Ecken berieben, sonst gut erhalten. Sprache: englisch.
Seller: Antiquariat Haufe & Lutz, Karlsruhe, BW, Germany
Elkus, Richard J.. Alamos: A Philosophy in Living. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1965.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 487 numbered copies signed by by the author and the publishers, Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. Hardcover, bound in brown suede (embossed with title) over hand-dyed orange, light brown and yellow striped Mexican cloth. Light edge wear.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
ELKUS, Richard J.. Alamos: A Philosophy in Living. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1965.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Folio. Number 1 of 487 numbered copies SIGNED by Elkus and the book's designers and publishers, Edwin and Robert Grabhorn (the last major book published by Grabhorn). Additionally signed and inscribed by Elkus in 1994. Foreword by Barnaby Conrad. 24 original black-and-white silver prints of Mexico mounted to paper and paired with short aphorisms by the photographer. Near fine in quarter native leather with orange and brown linen boards, hand-loomed and dyed in Mexico. Tight copy.
Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Elkus, Richard J.. Alamos: A Philosophy in Living.. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1965., 1965.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Folio, unpaginated. Twenty-four black and white photographs by the author. Printed in black and red on all-rag paper. Introduction by Barnaby Conrad. Quarter brown suede over Mexican decorative cloth with blindstamped front cover. Very minor offsetting from title-page. Binding extremities slightly rubbed, very minor fraying to cloth at edges. A near fine copy. First edition. Limited to 487 copies, signed by the author and by Robert and Edwin; additionally inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: ÒTo Eve and Taos / In friendship and affection / Dick Elkus / May 1st 1967.Ó This is the last major folio by the Grabhorn Press. Grabhorn Bibliography 653.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.