[Rarebooks] FS Five Fine Grabhorn Press Items
Pia Oliver
pia at piasworld.com
Wed Apr 6 16:44:16 EDT 2005
Words Spoken At the Music Room, Boar's Hill, In The Afternoon Of
November 5th, 1930 At A Festival Designed In The Honor Of William
Butler Yeats, Poet. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970. Octavo, blue
wrappers, center sewn, front cover lettered in black. Fine. One of
250 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. Printed for
David Magee and Albert Sperisen and presented to the friends in the
Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs on the occasion of the joint meeting in
Los Angeles, September 26-27, 1970. [GH 37]. $25.00
The Centennial Grove Play Celebrating the One-Hundredth Anniversay of
the Bohemian Club. [San Francisco: The Bohemian Club], 1972. [7],
8-134 pp. Color frontispiece. Octavo, cloth and decorated boards with
gilt spine title. Fine condition. First edition printed by the
Grabhorn-Hoyem Press. The Bohemian Club was founded in 1872, but
the first Grove Play was presented 30 years later. [Grabhorn-Hoyem
#50]. $30.00
BAER, Warren. The Duke of Sacramento. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press,
1934. Illustrated by Arvilla Parker. Octavo, blue boards, cream cloth
spine lettered in red, dust jacket (sunned on spine, a couple small
tears). Fine. One of 550 copies. $50.00
BENNETT, Melba Berry. Robinson Jeffers and the Sea. San Francisco:
Gelber, Lilienthal, 1936. Illustrated with photograph of Jeffers by
Edward Weston used as frontispiece, a facsimile document, and
photographs . Octavo, orange designed boards, green morocco spine
lettered in gilt. Spine ends missing one-quarter inch morocco at
ends, spine rubbed and split at channel, endpapers lightly offset,
bookplate on front free endpaper. One of 300 copies printed by the
Grabhorn Press. [GB 253]. $75.00
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