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Lot 322
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$200 -
300
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$125
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Lot Description
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. A group of 9 Books about Books, comprising:
LANG, Andrew. Old French Title Pages. 1924. 12mo. Original vellum-backed boards. One of 725 copies. -- A personal and confidential letter to Fannie Hill from the Keeper of the Bedchamber, upon her leaving him to go under the care of the Roxburghe Club. 1929. 12mo. Original boards. -- The Grabhorn press. A Catalogue of Imprints in the Collection of Henry R. Wagner. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1938. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; original plain dust jacket. One of 250 copies. -- Commonwealth V. Gordon et al. 1949. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards; original slipcase. One of 500 copies. -- French Art of the Book. 1949. 4to. Original printed wrappers. One of 1200 copies. -- Les Architectes du Livre. Contemporary Creative French Bookbinding. 1956. 4to. Original printed wrappers. One of 400 copies. -- MAGEE, David. Two Gentlemen from Indiana. 1961. 4to. Original printed wrappers. One of 250 copies. -- HART, James D. A Tribute to Edwin Grabhorn 7 Grabhorn Press. San Francisco: The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 1969. 12mo. Original cloth; original plain dust jacket. One of 1000 copies. -- Notes on some early Grabhorn items together with some more or less impertinent comments. Tucson, AZ: The Desert Press, n.d. 8vo. Original printed wrappers.
LIMITED EDITION where indicated, published San Francisco, except where indicated.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation

