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
[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
[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
[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
[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
London: The Waverly Book Co., Ltd. (n. d.). 1st printing. Ca 1900. Divers paginations. Illustrated with sample plates. 8vo. Green cloth binding, with sample binding styles in front & rear. A sample book for this subscriber edition of Dickens' works... "Taken as a whole, the Special Authorized Edition offers to... More
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1910. xliv, 283, [1] pp. Five b/w plates including frontispiece. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6-1/8". Navy cloth stamped in gilt with gilt ornaments, t.e.g. More
New York: 1949. 1st printing. 8 pages. Front wrapper with cut depicting the base of a big tree. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-7/8". Printed green paper wrappers, stapled. The catalogue lists 60 items, with the first item, from 1839, Zenas Leonard's Narrative, the most costly, $2000. A *real* bargain today. Uncommon catalogue... More
Washington, D. C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941. 1st printing. 21, [1] pp. Five black and white images, including reproductions of Cherokee newspapers and Bible excerpts. 7" x 4-3/4". Stapled tan paper wrappers printed in black. More
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
Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, Univeristy of California. 1986. 72 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Pale blue wrappers. More
[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
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
London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1894. 1st edition. 208 pp (including index) + publisher catalogue at rear. Illustrated. 8vo. Original brown publisher's cloth w/ spine lettered in gilt & boards blocked in black. More
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
[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
