[Californian Presses]. 11 Titles from the estate of Armida B. Colt.. 12mo-4to. 10 hardcover (some in dj), 1 softcover. ++ Thomas de Quincey. CALIFORNIA AND THE GOLD MANIA. San Francisco: Colt Press, (1945). Very good. One of 500. ++ A LETTER FROM ANTHONY TROLLOPE describing A Visit to California in 1875. Mallette Dean illustrator. Colt Press, 1946. Very good. One of 500. ++ CALIFORNIA-SPANISH PROVERBS Collected & Translated by Mildred Yorba Macarthur. Colt, 1954. ¼ vellum. Very good. One of 450 printed at the Grabhorn Press. ++ THE BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM: Notes on California Novelists by Edmund Wilson. Colt, 1941. Wear to corners of covers. A little discoloration to covers’ edges, very good in a fair dj with chipping and wear to dj’s edges (esp. top of dj’s spine and between flaps and panels). One of 1500. ++ Edgar A. [Allan] Poe. THE JOURNAL OF JULIUS RODMAN. Colt, 1947. Very good. Heller & Magee, "Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press," 443. One of 500 printed at the Grabhorn Press. For the 5 books listed above, see “Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Typographic Work of Jane Grabhorn,” 18, 31, 33, 35, 40. ++ CATALOGUE OF SOME FIVE HUNDRED EXAMPLES OF THE PRINTING OF EDWIN AND ROBERT GRABHORN 1917-1960 Two Gentlemen from Indiana Now Resident in California Offered for Sale at the Book Shop of David Magee… Edges have a little creasing and wear. Surface soiling. Softcover ed. Not the same as the Heller & Magee reference "The Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press." ++ Franklin Walker (ed.). THE LETTERS OF FRANK NORRIS. Book Club of California, 1956. (Limtiation credits 2 other publishers: “Three Hundred and Fifty Copies Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for the Colt Press”). Very good. Heller & Magee 576. ++ Bret Harte. THE RIGHT EYE OF THE COMMANDER: A New Year’s Legend of Spanish California. Berkeley: Bentley, 1937. Very good. Total of 425 issued; one of 350, signed by Wilder and Ellen Bentley (printers, Archetype Press in Berkeley). ++ COMMON PLACE BOOK THREE. SF: (Grace Hoper Press), 1960. Very good; the unprinted white dj is worn. One of 75 printed by Sherwood and Katharine Grover. ++ PHYSIOLOGUS: The Very Ancient Book of Beasts, Plants and Stones, Translated from Greek and other Languages by Francis J. Carmody. SF: Book Club Of California, 1953. Half the exterior is toned, otherwise very good. One of 325. ++ Charles Muscatine. THE BOOK OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER: An account of the publication of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Works From the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times. Book Club of California, 1963. Very good, few minor streaks/spots to covers. One of 450.