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Lot 324
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$188
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Lot Description
[GRABHORN PRINTING]. A group of 8 works relating to California, comprising:
BAER, Warren. The Duke of Sacramento. 1934. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 550 copies. Original prospectus laid in. -- LEWIS, Oscar. A. M. B. Some Aspects of his Life and Times... 1941. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. Original prospectus laid in. -- WAGNER, Henry R., translator. Memorials and Proposals of Señor Don José Martín on the Californias. 1945. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 250 copies. -- GREENHOOD, Clarence David. P. G. The Green Knight...in Memory of Porter Garnett. San Francisco: the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1951. 8vo. Original letterpress wrappers. -- HALE, John. California As It Is. 1954. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 150 copies. -- PFEIFFER, Gustavus A. Philosophical Writings & Aphorisms. 1955. 4to. Original red morocco; original dust jacket. One of 200 copies specially bound of a total edition of 1000. -- FARQUHAR, Francis P., editor. The Ralston-Fry Wedding. Berkeley: The Grabhorn Press for the Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1961. 4to. Original printed wrappers. -- LEWIS, Oscar. The Wonderful City of Carrie Van Wie. 1963. Folio. Original cloth-backed boards. One of 525 copies.
LIMITED EDITIONS where indicated, published San Francisco, except where indicated.
Property from the Estate of Lucia von Borisini Batten, Sold to Benefit the Albuquerque Museum Foundation
