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
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
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1998. A single sheet folded twice to make a pamphlet. One b/w illustration. 10-1/2" x 7-1/4". White paper with red and black title lettering printed to front panel. Currently housed in a mylar sleeve. Please note: this is just the prospectus for this... More
![[PROSPECTUS For '13 California Towns']. The Book Club of California.](/pictures/thumb/18309.jpg?v=1482378280)
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1947. (cf Oldmsted 68). One sheet folded in 4s. 14.5 x 22 cm. Self-wrappers. More
[San Francisco?]: Invisible Press, 1971. Broadside. The text of the announcement, framed by a hippie-style 'Age of Aquarius'-type border, is semi-poetry 14-line verse (paragraph?) of the same 'Aquarius' sentiment, with a monogram signature, which looks arabic in nature. 11" x 8-1/2". Printed recto only, in red on flimsy buff paper... More
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
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
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1963. Limited to 450 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. [10], 64, [4, blank] pp. With a tipped-in original leaf from the 1561 edition of Chaucer's WORKS, primarily "The testament of Creseide";, a tipped-in colored facsimile plate from the Ellesmere MS showing... More
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
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
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, (1997). Limited edition of 400 copies designed and printed by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serprent Press and Anchor & Acorn Press. 133, [3] pp., plus laid in prospectus (bifolium). Tipped in b/w photographic frontispiece of Lewis, b/w illustrations throughout. 10-3/4" x 7-7/8"... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1955. Limited to 325 copies printed by Jack Werner Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press. [4], 27, [3] pp. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of woodcuts in orange or black, plus five fold-out reproductions of Catnach broadsides. 4to. 11-1/4" x 8" Light brown cloth spine... More
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
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
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1997. A single sheet folded once to make a pamphlet. One photographic image in color pasted inside. 10-3/4" x 8". White paper wrappers with red and black title lettering printed to front panel. Currently housed in a myalr sleeve. With original mailing envelope... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1999. 1st edition. Ltd to 450cc. xi, [1], 156, [4] pp (with Index at rear). Beautifully illustrated in full color. Folio. 14-3/8" x 10-1/4". Blue cloth spine & fore-edge; pictorial boards. Decorative eps. Slipcase. Prospectus laid-in. More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001. 1st edition, limited to 400 copies. 162 pp (including index). Illustrated. Folio. Black cloth spine with patterned red paper-wrapped boards. Slipcase with black paper title label lettered in white on the spine. Prospectus included. More
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1991. 1st edition. 136 pp (including Index). 8vo. Green cloth binding. More
![CALIFORNIA In The FIFTIES. [Prospectus]. Grabhorn Press / John Howell.](/pictures/thumb/43452.jpg?v=1474856200)
[San Francisco]: [John Howell], (n. d.). Circa 1936. Folded four-panel brochure that opens to a full-sheet reproduction of Geo. H. Baker's "SACRAMENTO The Capital of California 1857"; 3 pp of text (rear panel blank). Order sheet and pre-paid envelope laid in. 9-1/4" x 6" when folded. Cream paper printed in... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1934. Limited Edition. #62 of 250 copies printed at the Windsor Press. [2], vi, 24, [1, colophon] pp + blank preliminary and terminal leaves. 10-3/8" x 7-3/4". Blue cloth with red-brown title label printed in white, tan label printed in mauve to spine. More
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1933. 1st Edition thus. Three volume set. Volume I: pp v, [1], 1 - 337, [1]. Vol II: pp [2], 339 - 704. Vol III: pp [4], 705 - 825, [1]. Blank prelims and terminals to each volume. 4to. 11-3/4" x 8". Brown... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1976. Limited Edition of 400 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem and signed by Angelo on the colophon. [6, blank], 97, [3], [6, blank] pp. Illustrated with 43 facsimiles of specimen pages, many in color, plus decorations throughout by Angelo; some color and gold... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1923. 1st edition (Heller & Magee 58; Olmsted 19). [15], 119, [7], [4 (blank)] pp. 4to. Paper covered boards backed with black cloth. Printed paper labels on front cover and spine. #205/400 cc. One of Fifty Books of the Year. Printed at the Grabhorn... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 2003. 1st edition. Limited to 300 cc. xiv, [2], 193, [3] pp. Index. Color frontis. B&W images throughout text. 4to. 11-1/8" x 8-5/8". Blue cloth spine with grey paper-wrapped boards, with printed paper title labels to spine & front board. Pictorial eps. More
(Belfast): The Northern Review, (n. d.). Possibly ca. 1965, the publication year of Vol 1, No. 1. Light grey broadside. Large blue, black and orange illustration onlay to top of poster featuring what looks to be traffic in a city. 15" x 9" Featured listed sections of "Poetry" (Philip Hobsbaum... More
