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A Contemplation upon the Mystery of Man's Regeneration in Allusion to the Mystery of Printing.

[Grabhorn Press].

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1927. Original parchment boards, split on the edge, bowed. One of approximately 125 copies printed; this one of a few bound in parchment. G.B. 102. ... more info

Price: $75.00

A Leaf from the First Edition of the First Complete Bible in English, The Coverdale Bible 1535.: With an Historical Introduction by Allen P. Wikgren and A Census of Copies Recorded in the British Isles and North Ameria

Bible, English; Wikgren, Allen P.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1974. Folio, 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches. Cloth backed boards, fine copy in lightly worn dust jacket. One of 425 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. The leaf in our copy is from Ecclesiasticus 36-38 (this last beginning "Honor the physician....") ... more info

Price: $1,000.00

A Midsommer Nights Dreame: Illustrations by Mary Grabhorn

Shakespeare, William.

San Francisco: 1955. Quarto, white boards, boxed. Illustrated with colored wood engravings. Spine slightly darkened, but a fine copy, one of 180 (150 for sale), printed on handmade paper. ... more info

Price: $300.00

Apophorètes. Traduit du latin par Jean François Peyret. Quarante deux bois gravés de Valentina La Rocca.

Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis).

Theatre Typographiques, 1996. One of 270 copies, this one of 100 signed by translator and artist, in in a chemise covered with Bugra paper. Six sewn fasicles in slipcase, 33 x 13 cm. The woodcuts are printed in 1 or 2 of 4 colors. ... more info

Price: $275.00

BR. A Panel Discussion at the Bruce Rogers Centenary by Harry Duncan, K.K. Merker and Ward Ritchie.

Duncan, Harry; Merker, K.K.; Ritchie, Ward.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1981. Cloth, fine, one of 650 copies. Designed by Ward Ritchie ... more info

Price: $25.00

BR. A Panel Discussion at the Bruce Rogers Centenary held at Purdue University.

Duncan, Harry;Merker, K.K.; Ritchie, Ward.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1981. One of 650 copies, printed by Richard Hoffman. Cloth, fine, plain jacket as issued. ... more info

Price: $25.00

Carnival. Five Etchings.

Budd, Harold.

Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2009. 10 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches. The composer's first work in fine printmaking. Five plates, each titled with the name of a Renaissance composer, engraved by Harold Budd, etched and printed at New Leaf Editions, on Barcham Gree Penshurst paper. The title page, colophon, and portfolio were printed and produced by Rollin Millroy at Heavenly Monkey. One of ten sets of the five etchings, each was printed in 15 copies, (plus 7 proofs). Each etching numbered and signed by Budd, who also signs the colophon. ... more info

Price: $1,250.00

Chapter Nine. The Vulgate Bible & other unfinished projects of John Henry Nash.

Harlan, Robert D.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1982. One of 1000 copies. Boards, fine. ... more info

Price: $15.00

Christ and the Unicorn.

Tate, Allen.

West Branch, Iowa: The Cummington Press, 1966. One of 125 copies. Slight foxing on the last leaf, as usual, otherwise fine. ... more info

Price: $100.00

Christopher Columbus.

Kazantzakis,Nikos.

Kentfield, Calif.: 1972.. Folio (13 x 8 1/2 in.) Printed in black, red, yellow, and grey on English handmade paper, unbound as issued in Fabriano paper wrapper, drop-back box covered in French cloth. One of 140 copies, printed on the 1846 Columbian handpress on Wookey Hole handmade paper. ... more info

Price: $500.00

D. H. Lawrence's Unpublished Foreword to "Women in Love" 1919.

Lawrence, D.H.

San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, 1936. Orange boards, cover label. Slightly marked, a very good copy of this fragile book. This essay, with a preface by Nathan Van Patten, Director of Stanford University Libraries, who own the manuscript, was apparently intended as a preface to the first edition of "Women in Love," but never included. One of 100 copies only, printed by the Grabhorn Press,of which 75 were for sale. Roberts A74; G.B. 249. ... more info

Price: $1,500.00

Dante's Inferno. Translations by Twenty Contemporary Poets. Introduced by James Merrill. With an afterword by Giuseppe Mazzotta. Edited by Daniel Halpern. Frontispiece by Francesco Clemente.

[Clemente, Francesco]. Dante Alighieri; Seamus Heaney, Richard Wilbur, W. S. Merwin, Amy Clampitt, Mark Strand, Robert Pinsky, Galway Kinnell, Cynthia Macdonald, Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Richard Howard, Stanley Plumly, C. K. Williams, Susan Mitchell,

New York: The Ecco Press, (1993). Small folio, original quarter leather, with slipcase. A signed and numbered etching by Francesco Clemente is laid in as frontispiece. One of 125 numbered copies, designed by Peter Andersen, set in Monotype D, and ante and printed letterpress by Michael and Winifred Bixler, on Rives heavyweight paper, hand-bound by Claudia Cohen. Perfect condition. Signed on the colophon by all the poet / translators: Seamus Heaney, Richard Wilbur, W. S. Merwin, Amy Clampitt, Mark Strand, Robert Pinsky, Galway Kinnell, Cynthia Macdonald, Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Richard Howard, Stanley Plumly, C. K. Williams, Susan Mitchell, Carolyn Forche, Alfred Corn, Sharon Olds, Deborah... more info

Price: $3,000.00

Der Kübelreiter. The Bucket Rider.: Relief etchings by Jerome Kaplan.

[Kaplan, Jerome]. Kafka, Franz.

Newark, Vermont: Janus Press, [1972]. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the artist. Ten unbound folios (11 x 12-3/4 inches) in cloth box as issued. The German text with illustrations is followed by the English translation. Fine condition, box slightly marked. ... more info

Price: $600.00

El Autobus Azul. Handmade Papers from Costa Rica.: Anniversary Edition.

Millroy, Rollin.

Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2008. Boards, fine. 2-1/2 x 2-3/4 inches. Edition of 50 copies. Four samples of Costa Rican handmade papers. This Anniversary Edition is revised from the 1998 first edition, (the first book printed by Millroy) which was limited to 15 copies. ... more info

Price: $125.00

Elegie. Change.

Donne, John.

No place: 1965. Broadside, folio: 43 x 35 cm; Caslon Old Style; 75 copies printed by Walter S. Hamady at Robert E. Runser's Rob Run Press, on the printer's handmade paper. Fine condition. ... more info

Price: $300.00

Frederic Goudy, Joseph Foster, and the Press at Scripps College.

Ritchie, Ward.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1978. First edition, one of 550 copies, designed by Ward Ritchie and printed by Richard Hoffman. Cloth backed boards, plain dust jacket, fine. ... more info

Price: $30.00

Homage to Monroe Deutsch.: Three addresses... by Ivan M. Linforth, Edwin C. Tolman [and] Benjamin H. Lehman.

[Grabhorn Press].

Privately printed at the Grabhorn Press, 1956. One of 200 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Occasional spotting, else a fine copy. Original portrait photograph of Deutsch laid in. ... more info

Price: $25.00

How Many Miles from St. Jo?: Together with a brief biography of James Phelan, 1819-1892

Clark, Sterling B.F.

San Francisco: Privately printed, 1929. Cloth backed boards, fine. Printed by Taylor & Taylor. Kurutz 137. ... more info

Price: $30.00

Howl for Carl Solomon.

Ginsberg, Allen.

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, (1971). Printed cloth, fine, as issued. Then-definitive edition, with Ginsberg's revisions, and the addition of The Names, a related poetic fragment. One of 275 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem, on handmade paper, signed by Ginsberg. The cover design is by Robert LaVigne. ... more info

Price: $1,250.00

Imitations of English Poets. Illustrated by Meredith Ramsbotham. Introduction by Julia Briggs.

Pope, Alexander.

Marlborough: Libanus Press, 1987. Deluxe edition, one of 50 quarter bound in goatskin with decorated boards. Fine. ... more info

Price: $75.00