[Rarebooks] FS: Gerry, The San Pasqual Press, a Weather Bird Press book

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Offered today: 

GERRY, VANCE (1929-2005). 

_San Pasqual Press. With a Foreword by Ward Ritchie_. 

Fallbrook, CA: The Weather Bird Press, 1986. 

8vo. 10 x 6 5/8 inches. [xii], (30) pp. Half-title, woodcut vignette on
title page in brown ink, 2 headpieces in brown ink, 8 photographic
illustrations on plates, 2 woodcut illustration sin the text and 1 cut
on the colophon, lists 22 titles published by the San Pasquale Press,
text clean, unmarked. Full natural linen cloth over boards, printed
paper spine and front cover labels, dust-jacket in archival mylar;
binding square and tight. SIGNED by Vance Gerry on the colophon. Fine. 

$ 80 

LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies set in Scotch type on a Vandercook press,
binding by Bela Blau. The San Pasqual Press was the brain child of Glenn
Schoefer, President of the Security Title Insurance & Guarantee Company
of Los Angeles. The San Pasqual Press issued 22 outstanding trade
publications, well-chosen and well-designed, between 1936 and 1942.
REFERENCE: Gerry, _Twenty-five Years of the Weather Bird Press_, No. 64.


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