San Francisco: Fine Print, 1982. 45, [3] pp. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". Stapled grey wrappers printed in yellow and darker grey. More about COLLEGIATE BOOK ARTS PRESSES. A New Census of Printing Presses in American Colleges &...
[Berkeley, CA]: Serendiptiy Books, 1790 Shattuck Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca early 1980s. Unpaginated, though 65 pp [including inner rear cover]. 8vo. 10" x 7". White paper covers printed in red & black. 501 entries, from Abbott's FLATLAND to a number of Virginia Woolf items. More about SERENDIPITY BOOKS. Catalogue 44. Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Literature
Berkeley, CA: Serendiptiy Books, 1578 Le Roy Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca mid-1960s. 76 pp. 8vo. 8-5/16" x 5-5/16". White paper covers printed in black, stapled. 1800 entries, with the introductory note stating "books listed herein are in reasonable but not perfect alphabetical order." More about SERENDIPITY BOOKS. Catalogue 14. Modern Literature
[Berkeley, CA]: Serendiptiy Books, 1790 Shattuck Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca early 1970s. 77, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-5/16" x 5-5/16". White paper covers printed in red & black, stapled. 643 entries, beginning with Abrahams (William) and concluding with Zukofsky (Louis). More about SERENDIPITY BOOKS. Catalogue 26. Modern Literature
[Berkeley, CA]: Serendiptiy Books, 1790 Shattuck Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca early 1970s. [2], 40, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". White paper covers printed in red & black, stapled. 538 entries. "This catalogue contains out-of-print literary criticism, including biography, bibliography, etymology, linguistics, classical studies, philology, edited texts... More about SERENDIPITY BOOKS. Catalogue 28. Literary Criticism
[Berkeley, CA]: Serendiptiy Books, 1790 Shattuck Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca mid 1970s. 33 pp [including inner rear cover]. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". White paper covers printed in red & black, stapled. 266 entries, concluding with a multi-volume lot of B. Traven material, the entire catalogue presented in Serendipity's typical minimalist format. More about SERENDIPITY BOOKS. Catalogue 30. Modern Literature
[Berkeley, CA]: Serendiptiy Books, 1790 Shattuck Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca mid 1970s. 113, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". White paper covers printed in red & black, stapled. 999 entries, presented in Serendipity's typical minimalist format. More about SERENDIPITY BOOKS. Catalogue 33. Modern Literature
Oxford: Published by Christopher Clarkson, 2005. 2nd Edition, with an Introduction and Corrections. xii, [2 (blank)], 23, [3 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with drawings. 8vo. 9-7/8" x 6-1/2". Printed paper wrappers. More about LIMP VELLUM BINDING. And Its Potential as a Conservation Type Structure for the Rebinding of...
Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, Univeristy of California. 1986. 72 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Pale blue wrappers. More about NINETEENTH CENTURY ILLUSTRATORS Of CALIFORNIA SIGHTS & SCENES. The Friends of the Bancroft...
[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, (1947). Limited edition of 750 copies. 12 folders, most having 2 pgs of printed text. Folders: 10" x 6-3/4". Slipcase: 10-1/2" x 7-1/4". Most folders a single sheet folded twice; one sewn self-wrappers. In blue chemise and quarter-leather blue slipcase. No. 11 of... More about The CALIFORNIA POETRY FOLIOS
Paris: Librairie Paul Jammes, (n. d.). Unpaginated. Index at rear. Text in French. 9-3/8" x 4-1/8". Pictorial wrappers on glossy, thick stock. 362 entries, arranged chronologically. More about CATALOGUE 192. Bibliographes Bibliographies. 1494 - 1802
[Palo Alto CA]: Stanford University Library, 1954. 1st edition. Ltd to 500cc. Presentation copy. 23 pp, illustrated, 8vo. Salmon-colored paper-wrapped boards with paper label on front board. An exhibition at Stanford 11/7/54 - 12/11/54, primarily from the collection of Albert Sperisen. This copy inscribed by J. Terry Bender, the Special... More about ERIC GILL 1882 - 1940.; With an Introduction by Evan R. Gill
El Cerrito, CA: the Skeptical Press, (n. d.). 1st edition thus. Single sheet folded once. 4-7/8" x 3-3/4". Color printed paper. More about CONUNDRUMS REPRINT PROSPECTUS. "Why is an angry person like a loaf? Why is a bee-hive like...
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, (2001). 30, [2] pp. Printed Publication Committee letter laid in. Color photographic images. 10" x 8-1/4". Wrappers printed in patterned pink and black with blue printed band, lettered in white and black. A catalogue from an exhibition at The Book Club of California, Jan. 10 - Feb. 26, 2001. More about FINE HAND BOOKBINDINGS For BOOK CLUB Of CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS. Keepsake for 2001
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2000. 13 folders. Color and b/w illustrations. 10-1/4" x 8-1/8". Offwhite paper portfolio printed in red with b/w illustrations, cardstock folders laid in. Includes an introduction by Gary F. Kurutz and examples of 12 of the library's treasures. More about TREASURES Of The BOOK CLUB LIBRARY. Part Two. The Book Club of California Keepsake 2000
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, (1997). 13 folders, some three-panel. Tipped-in color and b/w photographic images, printed b/w images. 10-1/4" x 8-1/8". Tan paper portfolio printed in black, cardstock folders laid in. More about TWELVE TREASURES From The LIBRARY Of The BOOK CLUB Of CALIFORNIA. The 1997 Keepsake
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1999. One of 1100 copies printed at The Yolla Bolly Press. 24 unnumbered pages. B/w photographic images. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 7-3/16". Saddle-stitched light grey wrappers with flaps, illustration printed to front wrapper. A keepsake from the Book Club of California, with whom Sperisen... More about REMEMBERING ALBERT SPERISEN
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1937. 1st revised and extended edition. One of 600 copies printed in July 1937. [13], 299, [2 (blank)] pp. Intratextual illustrations. 9-3/4" 6-1/2". Salmon cloth binding with title label pasted to spine. Gilt printed lettering to title label. Signed by "J. R. Knowland" -- Joseph Russell... More about The PLAINS And The ROCKIES. A Bibliography of Original Narratives of Travel and Adventure 1800 -...
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1947. (cf Oldmsted 68). One sheet folded in 4s. 14.5 x 22 cm. Self-wrappers. More about PROSPECTUS For '13 California Towns'
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. Limited edition of 390 copies printed by Anchor & Acorn Press and designed by Lewis Allen of The Allen Press. [Disbound and Dispersed, 203.]. [10], 63, [7] pp. 10-3/4" x 8". Grey-beige quarter cloth stamped in black, beige paper over boards with... More about An Essay by Gary F. Kurutz on A BIBLIOGRAPHY Of CALIFORNIA And The PACIFIC WEST, 1510 - 1906 by...
San Francisco: David Magee, 1967. 1st edition. Limited to 475 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem. [2, blank], 171, [3] pp. Illustrated with ~60 plates; facsimile in rear pocket. Folio. 14-1/8" x 10-1/4". Rust-colored quarter leather stamped in gilt, with white paper patterned in red over boards. More about CALIFORNIA'S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 1849 - 1869
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, (1985). 1st Edition thus. Limited to 750 cc. 114, [14] pp. T.p. printed in color. Index at rear. Untrimmed. Illustrated. 14" x 9-1/2". Brown cloth binding with blind stamped press to front board and gilt title lettering stamped to spine. Clear plastic wrapper. More about The ALLEN PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date Including a...
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1959. Limited edition of 400 copies printed at The Black Vine Press by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen. [8], 32, [10] pp. 8vo. 9-3/4" x 6-1/2". Patterned paper-covered boards, backed with white paper stamped in gilt. More about TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN In RELATION To PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1998. 1st edition, limited to 350 copies printed at The Yolla Bolly Press. 47, [1] pp. B/w illustrations. 4to. 11-1/4" x 8-1/4". Light brown cloth spine with brown and tan pictorial paper-wrapped boards, tan paper spine label. Publication No. 209 from the BCC. More about ANOTHER BOOK THAT NEVER WAS. William Morris, Charles Gere, The House of the Wolflings
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, (1978). Limited Edition of 500 copies. viii, 104 pp. Includes 16 color plates, reproduced in the size of the original. 14-3/4" x 9-3/4". Maroon quarter-cloth and marbled boards, gilt stamping to spine. BCC publication no. 160. More about THEMES In AQUATINT
