[Rarebooks] FS Handful of Grabhorn Californiana (affordable :)

[Pia Oliver]

California 1847-1852 Drawings by William Rich Hutton. San Marino, 
California: Huntington Library, 1942. Profusely illustrated. Oblong 
quarto, green marbled boards, dark green cloth spine, green paper 
label printed in gilt. Spine label lightly browned, spine cloth 
missing minute areas of pigment, spine ends, cover corners and lower 
front edge lightly rubbed, library stamp on front pastedown, 
endpapers offset, rear endpapers cracked over inner joint, occasional 
light foxing. One of 700 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. 
Drawings reproduced from the originals in the Huntington Library. [GB 
371].	$45.00

BAER, Warren. The Duke of Sacramento. A Comedy in Four Acts by Warren 
Baer reprinted from the rare edition of 1856, to which is added a 
sketch of the Early San Francisco Stage by Jane Bissell Grabhorn. San 
Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934. Illustrated by Arvilla Darker. 
Quarto, blue fleur-de-lis decorated boards, tan cloth spine, white 
paper label printed in red. Paper label very slightly browned, covers 
very slightly browned at edges, free endpapers very slightly offset, 
else fine. One of 550 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Reprinted 
from the rare edition of 1856 with an added sketch of the early San 
Francisco stage by Jane Bissell Grabhorn. [GB 212].	$45.00

BECKER, Robert H., Editor. Some Reflections of an Early California 
Governor Contained in a Short Dictated Memoir by Frederick F. Low, 
Ninth Governor of California, and Notes from an Interview between 
Governor Low and Hubert Howe Bancroft in 1883. Sacramento: Sacramento 
Book Collector's Club, 1959. Frontispiece color portrait. Quarto, red 
and yellow decorated cloth, tan cloth spine, red paper label printed 
in gilt, prospectus laid in, dust jacket. Fine. One of 310 copies 
printed at the Grabhorn Press. Seventh publication of the Sacramento 
Book Collector's Club. [GB 605].	$85.00

BURGESS, Gelett. Behind the Scenes.  Glimpses of Fin de Siecle San 
Francisco. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1968. Twenty-four 
photographic reproductions. Quarto, green cloth spine with printed 
paper label, pictorially stamped green boards, with prospectus laid 
in. Boards rubbed at edges, front board faded at top, else fine. One 
of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn-Hoyem Press. Originally written 
for the periodical The Wave , Burgess planned to turn these essays 
into a book, here realized for the first time. [BCC #128, GH #14]. 
	$75.00

COLTON, Walter. Glance Into California. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 
1955. green cloth, red paper label printed in gilt. Spine and front 
cover slightly stained, rear pastedown cracked at joint, else fine. 
One of 250 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Early California 
Travel Series Number 29. Chapter fourteen of Coltons Deck and Port, 
1846-1849. [GB 561].	$50.00

[LARKIN, Thomas O.]. California in 1846 Described in Letters 
From...The Farthest West, E. M. Kern, and Justice. San Francisco: 
Grabhorn Press, 1934. Frontispiece. Quarto, light blue boards 
decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, black cloth spine, blue 
paper label printed in black. Spine ends minutely rubbed, label very 
slightly browned,  covers very slightly browned at top and fore 
edges, front cover minutely dented and chipped at top edge, else 
fine. One of 550 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. One of the 
Fifty Books of the Year.  Grabhorn Second Series of Rare Americana, 
Number 5. [GB 209].	$85.00

PARSONS, George F. The Life and Adventures of James W. Marshall. The 
Discoverer of Gold in California. San Francisco: George Fields, 1935. 
Illustrated with colored reproductions. 12mo, green boards with 
pictorial brown and white label, white paper label on spine printed 
in black, unopened leaves. Spine and spine label very slightly 
browned, else fine . One of 450 copies printed by Edwin and Robert 
Grabhorn. Includes three folded reproductions in color: (1) Sutters 
Saw Mill  from painting by Charles Nahl (2) Contemporary lithograph 
(3) James Marshalls Gold Discovery Map,  all from originals in 
California State Library. [GB 225].	$75.00

PHOENIX, John and DERBY, Capt. George H.  Phoenixiana. A Collection 
of the Burlesques & Sketches of John Phoenix Alias John P. Squibob, 
Who Was, In Fact, George H. Derby, U.S.A. San Francisco: Grabhorn 
Press, 1937. Illustrated with facsimile frontispiece and six other 
inserted facsimiles. Octavo, blue and brown pictorial boards, tan 
cloth spine, blue paper label printed in black. Fine. One of 550 
copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. One of the Fifty Books of the 
Year. Third Series of Rare Americana, Number 5. [GB 277].	$85.00



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