[Rarebooks] FS: Some Grabhorns, including Jane

[Nina W. Matheson]

For your consideration :

66636.   Fidalgo d'Elvas .   The discovery of Florida, being a true 
relation of the vicissitudes that attended the Governor Don Hernando de 
Soto and some nobles of Portugal in the discovery of Florida.   [San 
Francisco] Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of Cal i fornia 
[1946]. Original quarter white cloth and decorated orange paper boards, 
printed paper label on the backstrip. Label of bookdealer Philip C. 
Duschnes on the rear pastedown. Small calligraphic book label of John and 
Jean Michael on the front free endpaper. Corners lightly rubbed, otherwise 
fine. One of 280 copies. Initials and decorations designed and cut by 
Mallette Dean. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 432.   $300.00

65170.   Grabhorn Press.   Nineteenth Century type displayed in 18 fonts 
cast by United States founders now in the cases of the Grabhorn 
Press.   San Francisco, David Magee, 1959.   Original quarter cloth and 
decorated paper boards, leather backstrip label.   Small, hard-to-see, 
scrape on the rear cover paper, otherwise fine in lightly soiled plain 
white dust jacket.   One of 300 copies signed by Edwin and Robert 
Grabhorn.   Not paginated.   Printed at the Grabhorn Press.   $150.00

65171.   Grabhorn, Edwin.   The fine art of printing.   An address.   [San 
Francisco, Grabhorn Press, 1933].   Original brown paper boards, printed 
label on the front cover.   Book-plate of the Peregrine Press on the front 
pastedown.   Fine.   One of 50 copies printed by the Grabhorns for the 
Roxburghe Club.   Some copies were bound in brown wrappers.   Grabhorn 
Press Bibliography, 1915-1940, no.   182.   Not paginated.   $150.00

65172.   Grabhorn, Jane.   A treatise and some letters.   San Francisco, 
Jumbo Press, 1937.   Quarter cloth and decorated printed boards.   Corners 
lightly rubbed, otherwise fine.   The second book of the Jumbo 
Press.   Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to a fellow 
printer: "For Harry Porte with affectionate regards from Jumbo Jane 
Grabhorn / October 5, 1937".   No.   12 of 40 numbered copies.   $700.00

67065.   Roxburghe Club of San Francisco.   Chronology of twenty-five years 
/ The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 1928-1953.   [San Francisco, Edwin 
and Robert Grabhorn, 1954]. Original quarter black cloth and marbl ed paper 
boards, printed paper label on the backstrip. Lower front corner lightly 
rubbed, two rubbed patches on the backstrip, otherwise fine. 200 copies. 
Introductions by Carl I. Wheat and Roy Vernon Sowers. Grabhorn Press 
bibliography 547 (indicatin g that copies were sold only to Roxburghe Club 
members). Not paginated. 26 numbered full-page plates.   $150.00

65392.   Pattison, Mark.   The Estiennes, a biographical 
essay.   Illustrated with original leaves from books printed by the three 
greatest members of that distinguished family.   San Francisco, The Book 
Club of California, 1949.   Original quarter cloth, paper boards, printed 
label on the backstrip.   Upper front corner lightly bumped, 5/8 inch faded 
strip at the top edge of the rear cover, otherwise fine.   One of 390 
copies printed at the Grabhorn Press.   Introductory note by Robert 
Grabhorn.   42 pp.   Leaf book.   $350.00

65601.   Zeitlin, Jake.   For whispers & chants.   San Francisco, The 
Lantern Press, 1927.   Original yellow paper boards.   Book-plate of Henry 
Rouse Viets on the front pastedown.   Foot of the backstrip and lower 
corner slightly bumped, otherwise fine (a fragile production).   Inscribed 
by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Henry Viets / with grateful 
remembrance of a day in Boston full of warmth & exciting encounters with 
books & men / Jake / 7/20/52".   Zeitlin has written out the following 
lines in the margin of the poem "For a Reminder" with an indication of 
where they should be inserted: "For a reminder that summer is waning, / 
Summer is dying".   One of 500 numbered copies.   Frontispiece illustration 
by Valenti Angelo.   Printed at the Grabhorn Press for Gelber-Lilienthal, 
Inc.   Author's first book, preceding his first catalog as a 
bookseller.   Heller & Magee / Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 
1915-1940 item 96 (noting that the book was one of the fifty books of the 
year).   $200.00



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