Grabhorn Press

• Scammon, L.N. (Lawrence N.) Spanish Missions, California: a Portfolio of Etchings. (1926) San Francisco: Jean Chambers Moore. Limited edition of 400 copies. The first ten copies are numbered A1 to A10; the next ninety are numbered B11 to B100; the remaining three hundred copies are numbered 101 to 400. The A copies are on Whatman paper, in a white parchment portfolio, and signed; the B copies are on unbleached Arnold paper, in white linen portfolio, and signed; the remainder are on machine-made paper, in natural linen portfolio, and unsigned. Cf. Heller. Indexed by E.R. Heller. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press. UMCP has copy numbered 109. Special Collections Folio NE2210 .S4 S3.


• “A Contemplation Upon the Mystery of Man's Regeneration in Allusion to the Mystery of Printing.” (1927) SanFrancisco, CA. Poem. Reprinted from James Watson's History of the art of printing, published in 1713. Limited edition of 125 copies printed for complimentary distribution as a Christmas and New Year's Greeting. McKeldin Library Stacks PR3291. A1 C65.


• De Vinne, Theodore Low. “The Plantin-Moretus Museum, a Printer's Paradise.” (1929) San Francisco, California. Introduction to the essay written by Oscar Lewis. Limited edition of 425 copies with colored initials. Reprint of the essay that originally appeared in Scribner's Magazine in June of 1888. UMCP has copy numbered 407 and signed by E.[Edwin] Grabhorn. Special Collections Stacks Z232 .P71 D5.


• Sutter, John Augustus. The Diary of Johann August Sutter. (1932) San Francisco, CA. With an introduction by Douglas S. Watson. Rare Americana Series, Number 2. Limited edition of 500 copies. One leaf prospectus for the Rare Americana series laid in. UMCP has an unnumbered copy. Special Collections Stacks F865 .S91.


• Edwards, Philip Leget. The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards: the Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in1837. (1932) San Francisco. Rare Americana Series, number 4. Introduction by Douglas S. Watson. First published in “Themis,” Vol. II, Spetember 13-27, 1890, under the title California in 1837. UMCP has an unnumbered copy. Special Collections Stacks F864 .E35.


• Dawson, Nicholas. Narrative of Nicholas “Cheyenne” Dawson (Overland to California in '41 & '49, and Texasin '51). (1933) San Francisco. With an introduction by Charles L. Camp and colored drawings by Arvilla Parker. First published about 1901 in an edition of 50 copies with the title, California in '41. Texas in '51 . UMCP has an unnumbered copy with a dust jacket. Special Collections Stacks F864 .D28.


• Ogden, Peter Skene. Traits of American Indian Life & Character, by a Fur Trader. (1933). San Francisco. Illustrations from Father De Smet's Missions de l'Oregon et voyages aux montagnes Rocheuses, Gand, 1848. The original edition published in London in 1853. Signed by the editor, Douglas S. Watson. UMCP has an unnumbered copy. Special Collections Folio E78 .W3 O32.


• Shirley, Dame. California in 1851 [-1852]: the letters of Dame Shirley. (1933) San Francisco. With an introduction and notes by Carl I. Wheat. First published serially in “The Pioneer: or, California monthly magazine,” January, 1854- December, 1855. Two volumes. UMCP has an unnumbered copy. Special Collections Stacks F865 .C584.


• Wierzbicki, Felix Paul. California As It Is & As It May Be: or, a Guide to the Gold Region. With an introduction by George D. Lyman. Rare Americana Series, number 8. Drawings by Valenti Angelo. Compiled by George D. Lyman. First published in 1849. UMCP has an unnumbered copy. Special Collections Stacks F865 .W643.


• Brown, John Henry. Reminiscences and Incidents of Early days of San Francisco (1845-50). (1933) San Francisco. With an introduction & reader's guide by Douglas Sloane Watson. First published in 1886 by the Mission Journal Publishing Co. San Francisco. UMCP has an unnumbered copy. Rare Stacks F869 .S3 B82.


• Baer, Warren. The Duke of Sacramento: a Comedy in Four Acts by Warren Baer. (1934) San Francisco. The first volume of the third series of Rare Americana. Reprinted from the rare edition of 1856. Special Collections Stacks PS1056 .B4 D8.


• The Spanish Occupation of California: Plan for Establishment of a Government Junta or council held at San Blas, May 16, 1768. (1934) San Francisco. With woodcuts by Zena Kavin and an introduction by Douglas S. Watson. Translated from the Spanish documents by Douglas S. Watson & Thomas Workman Temple II. Limited edition of 550 copies printed from Franciscan types. Bound at the Grabhorn Press. Designed by Frederic W. Goudy for the Press. UMCP has an unnumbered copy. Special Collections Folio F851 .5 .W3.


• Stratton, Royal B. Life among the Indians, or: The captivity of the Oatman girls among the Apache & Mohave Indians. (1935) San Francisco. With wood-engraving by Mallette Dean and an introduction by Lindley Bynum. Rare American Series, number two of the 3rd Series. Limited edition of 550 copies printed. First published in 1857 with the title Life among the Indians: Being an Interesting Narrative of the Captivity of the Oatman Girls . UMCP has an unnumbered copy. Special Collections Stacks E87 .O16.


• Kane, Thomas Leiper. The Private Papers and Diary of Thomas Leiper Kane, a friend of the Mormons. (1937) San Francisco: Gelber-Lilienthal, Inc. With an introduction by the editor Oscar Osburn Winther. Limited edition of 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. UMCP has an unnumbered copy. Special Collections Stacks BX8611 .K25 A4.


• Derby, George Horation. Phoenixiana: a Collection of the Burlesques & Sketches of John Phoenix . (1937) San Francisco. Edited by Francis P. Farquhar. Limited edition of 550 copies. Bound in blue decorated paper boards. Prospectus laid in. Special Collections Stacks PS1535 .P5.


• Grandes Chroniques of France. Joan the Maid of Orleans. (1938) San Francisco. Translated by Pauline B. Sowers. Wood-engravings from the first edition and a bibliographic note on the work of Antoine Vérard. Limited edition of 525 copies. From the Chroniques de France printed in Paris in 1493. Special Collections Folio DC103 .A12.


• Meyers, William H. Naval Sketches of the War in California: Reproducing Twenty-Eight Drawings made in 1846-47. (1939) New York: Random House. Descriptive text by Captain Dudley W. Knox, and an introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt. An edition of 1,000 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Sketches now published for the first time from the original sketch book of Gunner William H. Meyers in the possession of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Rare Folio E410 .M48.


• Grabhorn Press. A Grab[horn] Bag: Pages from Various Books Printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1928-1940. (1940) San Francisco. Original pages found by excavators at 642 Commercial Street, San Francisco. R.D. Remley Collection. Rare Folio Z250 .G72.


• Goll, Yvan. Jeans sans Terre. (1944) San Francisco. With two original drawings by Eugene Berman. Translated by Lionel Abel, William Carlos Williams, Clark Mills, John Gould Fletcher, and a preface by Allen Tate. Limited edition of 175 copies. French and English on opposite pages. Rare Folio PQ2613 .O474 C52.


• Sandels, G. M . Waseurtz. A Sojourn in California by the King's Orphan. (1945) San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California in arrangement with the Society of California Pioneers. With an introduction by Helen Putnam Van Sicklen. Special Collections Folio F864 .S25.


• Hammond, George P., editor. The Treaty of Guadalupe, February Second, 1848. (1949) Berkely: Printed for the Friends of the Bancroft Library. Limited edition of 500 copies at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, CA. UMCP has copy numbered 353 . UMCP Off-site Shelving E408 .M63.


• M'Ilvaine, William. Sketches of Scenery and Notes of Personal Adventure in California and Mexico. (1951) San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California. With a foreword by Robert G. Cleland & reproductions of the 16 lithographic plates. Limited edition of 400 copies. Special Collections Folio F865 .M5.


• Reichert, Irving F. (Irving Fredrick). Judaism & the American Jew: Selected Sermons and Addresses. (1953) San Francisco, CA. McKeldin Library Folio BM740 .R385 .


• Denman, Leslie. Sha a-la-ko Mana: Ritual of Creation (Hopi). (1957) San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Pressfor W. and L.Denman. Special Collections Folio E99 .H7 D394.


• Grabhorn Press. Nineteenth Century Type Displayed in 18 fonts, cast by United States founders, Now in the cases of the Grabhorn Press. San Francisco. Limited edition of 300 copies. UMCP has copy numbered 152. Signed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. Special Collections Stacks Z250 .G715.


• Carpenter, Kenneth. Collector's Choice. (1960) San Francisco. Limited edition of 150 copies printed for a group of members of the Roxburghe Club. Compiled by Kenneth Carpenter with a foreword by Oscar Lewis. Special Collections Stacks Z12 .C6.


• Ukiyo-e. “The Floating World.” (1962) San Francisco, CA: Printed for the Book Club of California by Grabhorn Press. Illustrated by 28 rare examples of Japanese woodblock prints by 17 great masters of the art. UMCP Art Library Folio NE1310 .U3.


• Wheat, Carl I. Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861. (1957-1963) San Francisco, CA: Institute of Historical Cartography. An edition of 1,000 copies designed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. Volume one printed by the Grabhorn Press. McKeldin Library Reference Stacks GA405 .W5 .


• Bennett, Paul A. Some Notes on the Engaging By-paths and Enduring Pleasures of Fine Bookmaking. (1963)Stanford, CA: Stanford University. This keepsake commemorates the dedication of the Morgan A. and Aline D. Gunst Memorial Library. Printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Laid in a binding case of dark blue leather. The casing was made by Donovan J. McCune. Special Collections Stacks Z116 .A4 B4.


• Lowry, Walker. Tumult at Dusk. (1963) San Francisco. Limited edition of 100 copies. An account of Ecuador, its Indians, its conquerors, its colonists, its rebels, its dictators, its politicians, its landowners, and its priests, with a prologue and an epilogue. Special Collections Folio F3731 .L6.
  

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