[Rarebooks] FS: The first 25 years of exhibition pamphlets from The Rounce & Coffin Club's "Exhibition of Western Books." 1938-1963

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(THE ROUNCE & COFFIN CLUB) WESTERN BOOKS [EXHIBITION]. Los Angeles: The Rounce & Coffin Club. 1938-1963. 21 volumes (various sizes, all pamphlets, each 20pp. - 36pp.). Profusely illustrated. No exhibition was published in 1940, 1943, 1944, and 1945. 8 of the years have a thin faded water stain along the spine. OFFERED WITH: TWENTY YEARS OF WESTERN BOOKS. Sacramento: Cracker Art Gallery. 1959. In all, 22 volumes.    $375.00 (trade discount allowed)
A distinguished series of publications, a annual selection of the best printed books by Western presses, by a jury of Club printers. The annual pamphlet illustrating the books selected was sold at the traveling exhibition of the books. The series continued to 2005, when it ceased (The Rounce & Coffin Club officially ceased in 2007). Notably the volumes were well printed by some of the best printers in the West: Adrian Wilson The Greenwood Press, The Plantin Press, Ward Ritchie Press, The Castle Press, etc., etc.  The first year, 1938, is very scarce.

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