Heading: (Grabhorn Press)
Author:
Title: Eight volumes from the Grabhorn Press
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Grabhorn Press
Date Published: Various dates
Description:

Includes: Phoenixiana: A Collection of Burlesques & Sketches of John Phoenix; Letters from the Sandwich Islands by Mark Twain; Rudyard Kipling's Letters from San Francisco; Narrative of Nicholas "Cheyenne" Dawson; The Banditti of the Plains by A.S. Mercer; The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards; A California Gold Rush Miscellany; [and] Plan Junta Diario: The Spanish Occupation of California...

Some volumes with bookplates.

Includes:

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  The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards. 1932. Introduction by Douglas S. Watson. Illustrated with color frontispiece after lithograph by John E. Vioget; headpiece by Arvilla Parker. 10x7¼", cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine & cover labels. One of 500 copies.


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  Narrative of Nicholas "Cheyenne" Dawson (Overland to California in '41 & '49, and Texas in '51). 1933. Introduction by Charles L. Camp. Illustrated in color by Arvilla Parker. Cloth-backed illustrated boards, printed paper spine label. One of 500 copies. Second Edition.


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  The Spanish Occupation of California: Plan for the Establishment of a Government; Junta or Council Held at San Blas, May 16, 1768; Diario of the Expeditions Made to California.The Spanish Occupation of California: Plan for the Establishment of a Government; Junta or Council Held at San Blas, May 16, 1768; Diario of the Expeditions Made to California. 1934. Translated from the original documents by Watson, Thomas Workman Temple II, & Frederick J. Teggart. 2 woodcut portraits by Zena Kavin, facsimiles of signatures, folding frontis. facsimile map. Printed in black & red. 11x7½, cloth-backed patterned boards, paper spine label. 1 of 550 copies.


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  A California Gold Rush Miscellany. 1934. Explanatory text by Jane Bissell Grabhorn. Illustrated with reproductions of maps, broadsides, letter sheets and lithographs; decorative initials by Arvilla Parker. 11x7½, cloth-backed glossy boards, paper spine label. One of 550 copies.


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  The Banditti of the Plains. 1935. Foreword by James Mitchell Clarke. Illustrated by Arvilla Parker. Cloth backed mustard yellow boards with paper spine label. One of 1000 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.


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  Letters from the Sandwich Islands, Written for the Sacramento Union. 1937. Introduction & conclusion by G. Ezra Dane. Illustrated with woodcut printed in color by Dorothy Grover. 9½x6¼", gray linen-backed green decorative boards, paper spine label, plain paper jacket. One of 550 copies. First Edition.


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  Phoenixiana. A Collection of Burlesques & Sketches of John Phoenix, alias John P. Sqibob, who was, in fact, Lieutenant George H. Derby, U.S.A. 1937. Edited by Francis P. Farquhar. Illustrated from sketches, facsimiles, etc. Cloth-backed patterned boards, paper spine label. One of 550 copies.


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  Rudyard Kipling's Letters from San Francisco. Containing anecdotes about the Bohemian Club; The Palace Hotel, where he stayed; Chinatown, where he witnessed a real murder, &c &c. 1949. Illustrated with line drawings by Otis Oldfield. (Small 4to), blue cloth-backed pictorial boards, paper spine label, plain paper jacket. One of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.

Condition varies; generally very good or better.