A large selection of less common items from various fine presses and printers, chiefly in the Bay Area. Lot includes: Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904. Inscription on front pastedown. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Written by Himself, Edited and Translated by John Addington Symonds... New York: Brentano's, 1906. 2 volumes. Letters of Wayne and Washington. Boston: Privately Printed by W.K. Bixby for Historical Societies and Personal Friends, 1922. Blunden, Edmund. Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative. Westminster, England: The Beaumont Press, 1925. Gilliss, Walter. Recollections of The Gilliss Press and its Work During Fifty Years, 1869-1919. New York: The Grolier Club, 1926. The Blue & Gold: A Record of the College Year in Copy and Pictures of 1926-1927. Berkeley, California: Published by the Associated Students of the University of California, 1927. Designed by John Henry Nash for the Joy of the Doing and Printed by the Schwabacher-Frey Company of San Francisco. A William Morris Broadside Illustrating Two Stages in the Design of the Kelmscott Chaucer. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press/Book Club of California, 1934. Types Borders and Miscellany of Taylor & Taylor: With Historical Brevities on their Description and Use. San Francisco: Taylor & Taylor, 1939. No. 207 of 260. In slipcase. Addison, Joseph. An Essay on Scholarship. Berkeley, California: Hart Press, 1941. Landless John. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1944. Machen, Arthur. The Gray's Inn Coffee House. Stanford, California: Nathan Van Patten, 1949. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Librarian-on-Leave. Los Angeles: Friends of the UCLA Library, 1952. 1 of 300 copies. 100 Years of Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco: 1855-1955. San Francisco: Mechanics' Institute, 1955. Dillon, Richard H. Bully Waterman & the Voyage of the Clipper Challenge New York to San Francisco, 1851. San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club, 1956. Signed by the author. Printed by Adrian Wilson With bookplate. Holman, William R. Library Publications. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. San Francisco: Roger Beacham, 1965. Walker, Thomas. Aristology: Or, The Art of Fine Dining. Drawings by Lynton Lamb. Cambridge: University Printing House, 1965. Bookplate of Lillian Marks. Bidwell, John. The First Emigrant Train to California. With Illustrations by Frederic Remington & Foreword by Oscar Lewis. Menlo Park, California: Penlitho Press, 1966. No. 192 of 500 copies Shickell, Edward Hampton. Bookplates for Libraries.. [Austin, Texas]: Roger Beacham, 1968. Levenson, Roger. "The Pressman's Trade": A Commentary on the Traditional Handpress. Berkeley, California: Library Associates of the University Library, Davis, 1969. Printed by Roger Levenson of the Tamalpais Press. Plays by Agnes Noble: Performed by Members of the Century Club of California. San Francisco: Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, 1972. Reflections from a Publishing Career: Prepared by His Staff and Friends for August Fruge on His Retirement As Director of the University of California Press. Berkeley, California: University of California Printing Department, 1977. The Penninsular California Missions: 1808-1880. A Trinity of Reports, Translated and Annotated by Msgr. Francis J. Weber Los Angeles: Libra Press Limited, 1979. Dutton, Joan Parry. They Left Their Mark: Famous Passages Through the Wine Country. St. Helena, California: Illuminations Press, 1983. A Signature from The Ephemera of Adrian Wilson El Paso, Texas: The University of Texas at El Paso, 1996. Whipple, Ann. LX Commute: My Sentence. Phoenix, Arizona: D'Ambrosio, 1996. Inscribed to Bill [Barlow?] by the author. Brock, Darryl. Mark Twain and The Great Base Ball Match. Emeryville, California: Havilah Press, 1999. No. 121 of 150 copies. African Figures: Drawings by Wolfgang Lederer. Emeryville, California: Havilah Press, 2000. No. 85 of 150 copies. A Famili
A large selection of less common items from various fine presses and printers, chiefly in the Bay Area. Lot includes: Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Tristram of Lyonesse and Other Poems. Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1904. Inscription on front pastedown. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Written by Himself, Edited and Translated by John Addington Symonds... New York: Brentano's, 1906. 2 volumes. Letters of Wayne and Washington. Boston: Privately Printed by W.K. Bixby for Historical Societies and Personal Friends, 1922. Blunden, Edmund. Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative. Westminster, England: The Beaumont Press, 1925. Gilliss, Walter. Recollections of The Gilliss Press and its Work During Fifty Years, 1869-1919. New York: The Grolier Club, 1926. The Blue & Gold: A Record of the College Year in Copy and Pictures of 1926-1927. Berkeley, California: Published by the Associated Students of the University of California, 1927. Designed by John Henry Nash for the Joy of the Doing and Printed by the Schwabacher-Frey Company of San Francisco. A William Morris Broadside Illustrating Two Stages in the Design of the Kelmscott Chaucer. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press/Book Club of California, 1934. Types Borders and Miscellany of Taylor & Taylor: With Historical Brevities on their Description and Use. San Francisco: Taylor & Taylor, 1939. No. 207 of 260. In slipcase. Addison, Joseph. An Essay on Scholarship. Berkeley, California: Hart Press, 1941. Landless John. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1944. Machen, Arthur. The Gray's Inn Coffee House. Stanford, California: Nathan Van Patten, 1949. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Librarian-on-Leave. Los Angeles: Friends of the UCLA Library, 1952. 1 of 300 copies. 100 Years of Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco: 1855-1955. San Francisco: Mechanics' Institute, 1955. Dillon, Richard H. Bully Waterman & the Voyage of the Clipper Challenge New York to San Francisco, 1851. San Francisco: The Roxburghe Club, 1956. Signed by the author. Printed by Adrian Wilson With bookplate. Holman, William R. Library Publications. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. San Francisco: Roger Beacham, 1965. Walker, Thomas. Aristology: Or, The Art of Fine Dining. Drawings by Lynton Lamb. Cambridge: University Printing House, 1965. Bookplate of Lillian Marks. Bidwell, John. The First Emigrant Train to California. With Illustrations by Frederic Remington & Foreword by Oscar Lewis. Menlo Park, California: Penlitho Press, 1966. No. 192 of 500 copies Shickell, Edward Hampton. Bookplates for Libraries.. [Austin, Texas]: Roger Beacham, 1968. Levenson, Roger. "The Pressman's Trade": A Commentary on the Traditional Handpress. Berkeley, California: Library Associates of the University Library, Davis, 1969. Printed by Roger Levenson of the Tamalpais Press. Plays by Agnes Noble: Performed by Members of the Century Club of California. San Francisco: Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, 1972. Reflections from a Publishing Career: Prepared by His Staff and Friends for August Fruge on His Retirement As Director of the University of California Press. Berkeley, California: University of California Printing Department, 1977. The Penninsular California Missions: 1808-1880. A Trinity of Reports, Translated and Annotated by Msgr. Francis J. Weber Los Angeles: Libra Press Limited, 1979. Dutton, Joan Parry. They Left Their Mark: Famous Passages Through the Wine Country. St. Helena, California: Illuminations Press, 1983. A Signature from The Ephemera of Adrian Wilson El Paso, Texas: The University of Texas at El Paso, 1996. Whipple, Ann. LX Commute: My Sentence. Phoenix, Arizona: D'Ambrosio, 1996. Inscribed to Bill [Barlow?] by the author. Brock, Darryl. Mark Twain and The Great Base Ball Match. Emeryville, California: Havilah Press, 1999. No. 121 of 150 copies. African Figures: Drawings by Wolfgang Lederer. Emeryville, California: Havilah Press, 2000. No. 85 of 150 copies. A Famili
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