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(American Fine Press) Twenty-eight volumes from American Fine Presses Place Published: Various places Publisher: Various publishers Description: 28 volumes. Variously illustrated, sized, and bound in leather, cloth, and plain boards, some in wrappers and slipcases. A large selection of Americana from the presses of John Henry Nash, Biobooks, Thomas C. Russell, The Colt Press, Grace Hoper Press and many others. Most are from limited editions. Bookplates and ink marks. 28 total volumes, with 4 Common Place books published in San Francisco by the Grace Hoper Press, including: Another Common Place Book. 1956. One of 75 copies. Common Place Book Three. 1960. One of 75 copies. A Common Place Book with Something for Everybody. 1969. Common Place Book Six. 1983. One of 200 copies. 4 published in San Francisco by the Book Club of California Pope, Bertha Clark, editor. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce. 1922. No. 256 of 400 numbered copies printed by John Henry Nash. Cloth-backed boards, spine label lettered in gilt. Nostrand, Jeanne van. San Francisco, 1806-1906. 1975. Cloth boards lettered in gilt. Alvarado, Juan Bautista. Vignettes of Early California:... 1982. One of 650 copies printed by Patrick Reagh. Southern California Travel Posters [with] Northern California Travel Posters. Book Club of California Keepsakes, 2006, 2007. Printed wrappers, together in custom cloth slipcase with spine labels lettered in gilt. 6 published in Oakland by Biobooks, several with folding maps, including: Farnham, Thomas Jefferson. Travels in California with Map. 1947. One of 750 copies. Johnston, Wm. G. Overland to California. 1948. One of 1000 copies. Barry, T.A. and B.A. Patten. San Francisco California 1850. 1947. One of 650 copies. Carson, James H. Recollections of the California Mines. 1950. One of 750 copies printed by the Plantin Press. Robinson, Alfred. Life in California. 1947. One of 750 copies printed at the Gillick Press. Colton, Walter. The California Diary. 1948. One of 1000 copies printed at the Gillick Press. plus an additional 14 volumes from a variety of other printers and publishers: Ray, Milton S. The Farallones, The Painted World and Other Poems of California. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934. No. 1005 of 2000 copies. 2 volumes. Prieto, Guiellermo. San Francisco in the Seventies. Translated and edited by Edwin S. Morby. San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1938. One of 650 copies. Dumas, Alexander. A Gil Blas in California. Los Angeles: The Primavera Press, 1933. Cutter, Donald C. Malaspina in California. San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1960. Cox, George J. Nature and Art Duel Essays in Line. Boston: Bruce Humphries Inc., 1944. One of 500 copies. Yorick, Mr. A Sentimental Journey Through France & Italy. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905. No. 233 of 335 copies printed by Bruce Rodgers at the Riverside Press. Harte, Bret. The Adventure of Padre Vincentio. Berkeley: W & E. Bentley, 1939. One of 450 copies. Walker, Franklin, editor. The Letters of Frank Norris. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956. One of 350 copies printed at the Colt Press. Harmsmen, Tyrus G. and Stephen Tabor. The Plantin Press of Saul & Lillian Marks. A BIbliography. Sebastopol, California: The Press of Patrick Reagh, 2005. No. 14 of 75 copies with Plantin Press ephemera laid in rear pocket. Camp, Charles L., editor. George C. Yount and his Chronicles of the West. Denver, Colorado: Old West Publishing Company, 1956. Robinson, Aldred. Life in California Before the Conquest. San Francisco: The Private Press of Thomas C. Russell. 1925. No. 6 of 250 copies signed by the printer. Simpson, George. Narrative of a Voyage to California Ports in 1841-42. San Francisco: The Private Press of Thomas C. Russell. 1930. Unnumbered of 250 copies. Stewart, George R. Take Your Bible in One Hand. San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1936. One of 750 copies. Condition: Varying minor wear to jackets and slipcases; various toning and wear to volumes, some crack