Search Results: Fine Press and Printing from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

(San Francisco): The Book Club of California, 1983. First edition. 8vo., deep maroon cloth, 84 pp. Attractively printed, and illustrated. One of 550 copies designed and printed by Harold Berliner. Fine in a slightly torn glassine wrapper. BCC 173..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1954. First edition. Quarto, tan cloth lettered in brown, pp. 42, illustrated, including four tipped-in facsimilies of period printing. One of 375 copies printed by the Black Vine Press. First complete appearance of these essays, chronicling the bohemian literary scene of San Francisco at the turn-of-the-century. Bookplate on pastedown, cloth frey at spine ends, else near fine..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1968. First edition. Quarto, cloth backed decorated paper-covered boards with paper spine label, pp. 128, attractive woodcut decorations by Shirley Barker and reproductions of period photographs. Four hundred copies were printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. Historian's book label, else a fine copy. BCC 128..

(NP): Bassett Foundation, 1966. First edition, one of 500 copies. Decorations by Lucille Hobbie. From text handset in Kennerly by the late Joseph Ishill, 500 copies have been printed on Andorra paper (with post italic heads) by Ralph Babcock at the Golden Cockerel Press in Pottersville, New Jersey. Fine in dust jacket with price hand-penned on front dust jacket flap..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1987. First edition. Quarto, wrappers, pp. ix, 55; illustrated. Spine gently sunned, else fine..

Stroud: Catalpa Press, 1985. Octavo, card covers, pp. v, 69; illustrated. Near fine..

New York: Printed for the Typofiles by the Bird & Bull Press, 1982. 1,000 copies printed. Inscribed by Harlan to collecor Alan Dietch. Prospectus laid in. Fine cop, lacking the glassine wrapper..

New York: John Lane; the Bodley Head, 1897. First American edition. 12mo., pale green decorated cloth with design by Bradley, pp. 134pp., + (3) ads, decorations and endpapers by Will Bradley. Slight foxing to covers, else near fine. Bambace A29..

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1933. First edition. Octavo, flexible silver and black boards, pp. 51; illustrated. Inscribed by Cooper, to Geo. S. Brown in 1938. Attractively produced Cooper and Beatty item. Fine in a tattered unprinted glassine wrapper..

London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. First edition. Small octavo, green and white wove cloth lettered in black on the spine, top page edge trimmed and coloured green, pp. [197]; illustrated. Leaf advertising "Eric Gill: Mason Sculptor", by Thorp is laid-in [originally tipped]. The original dust jacket has been over-printed in green by the publisher to read "First Cheap Edition", with a reduced price. The publisher has clipped the original price from the front flap. This constellation of points is slightly different from what Evan Gill mentions as a known variant in his bibliography. Previous owner's name and initials neatly written on front endpapers, several leaves roughly opened, else very good in a [price-clipped] dust jacket with a small chip to rear gutter, short tears to front panel and head of the spine, spine ends slightly worn, and slight over-all dust soiling. Gill A22b..

Forest Hills, NY: Battery Park Book Co., 1978. Reprint of the 1899 edition reproducing the text in facsimile. Fine copy..

Passau: Verlag Thomas Reche, 2000. #84 of an edition signed by the author and the illustrator Karl-Georg Hirsch. Card covers in dust jacket with deep flaps, pp. 33; (4). Slight bump to one corner, else fine. .

The Calver Press, Christmas, 1980. Maroon card covers, wire-stitched, pp. [34]. A play in rhyming verse. Inscribed and initialled by Figg. Slightly faded at spine, else near fine..

Austin: Humanities Research Center/The University of Texas, (1982). First edition. Square 4to., wrappers, pp. 193; with 72 illustrations. Catalogues 1413 items. With an introduction by John Dreyfus. A couple of small creases to the lightly dust-soiled covers, else very good. Gill 636.91.

London: The Fortune Press,[1944]. Octavo, wine coloured boards abcked in red cloth, pp. [iv] 380. Textblock shows creasing and edhe wear, particularly to the first signature, and may have been bound-up later from unsold sheets. Private Press, though not finely printied by any means. With dust jacket showing chipping to spine ends and gutters, else good. d'Arch-Smith 459.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1980. Printed in England. pp. [90], [2]. 450 copies were produced for The Book Club of Californis, another 500 for the Typophiles, and another 400 were bound in paper for Hurtwood. There were also 125 special copies. Prospectus for The Book Club of California issue laid in. Fine in unprinted cellophane wrapper with a few edge tears. . Illus. by .

(Boston): Bibliophile Society, 1905. First edition, one of 500 copies. Mostly articles devoted to the Bibliophile Society. Also includes Washington's letter to his overseers at Mt. Vernon. Paper covered boards, with printed spine-label. Light soiling to boards, else very good. Lacls slipcase..

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1989. First edition. 8vo., gray buckram, pp. 81, illustrated. Pixley is primarily remembered for his editorship of The Argonaut, (1877-1895), a literary weekly that published writings by Ambrose Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, and Charles Warren Stoddard. Prospectus laid in. Fine in the publisher's unprinted dust jacket, neatly lettered in pencil on the spine. BCC 190..

Cleveland: Burrows Brothers Co., 1895. First American edition, #220 of 600 copies. Octavo, blue holland boards, tan cloth spine, 129pp., with numerous illustrations, decorative borders, binding design and endpapers by Will Bradley. A masterpiece of American Art Nouveau design. Small rubber-stamp at preface, wear to edges and spine ends, else very good. Turn of a Century #134; Bambace A9..

Pasadena: Typophiles, 1949. First edition. 1 of 300 copies. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press on Maidstone and Fabriano Cover. Sewn wrappers, 8vo., 21pp. "Something About the Years that Followed", a 4pp. supplement printed by Dahlstrom is laid in. Tiny tears at spine ends, slight creasing at edges, a little toning to covers. A very good copy. Bambace A78..