[Rarebooks] FS: Keepsake for the First Joint Meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs

[Karen Howell]

Offered today:

With a nice woodcut illustration by Harold Mallette Dean (1907-1975). 

LILIENTHAL, Theodore (1893-1972). 

Credo.  [San Mateo, CA]: Quercus Press, 1953. 

Folio.  13 x 9 1/2 inches.  [4] pp.  Front cover titled in red, woodcut illustration of San Francisco by Mallette Dean signed in the block with his initials (on page [3]), short poem marking the occasion of the first joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs, printer’s device; text clean unmarked.  Bifold, printed on laid paper; light soiling to front cover, lightly foxed, else FINE.

FIRST EDITION.  Printed for the first joint meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs, September 13, 1953.  Theodore Lilienthal was a prominent civic leader in the Bay Area as well as a bookseller (Gelber-Lilienthal Bookshop), and book collector.  Lilienthal set up a press in his garden in the 1930s and began printing small runs of poems and other short works.  One of the presses acquired by Mr. Lilienthal was an Albion formerly used by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. 

An uncommon keepsake; no copies in World Cat.  Reference: Fullerton, et al, The Zamorano Club, No. 145; Olmsted and Magee, Forty Years, p. 25. 

$ 100.00; reciprocal trade discounts allowed.

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