Fine Printing and Bookbinding from San Francisco and Its Environs. A Representative Exhibition for the Grolier Club...

San Francisco: printed for Carroll T. Harris, 1961 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 200 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Quarto. 36pp. Printed in red and black. Handset type on English handmade paper. Blue and green decorated boards, natural linen back, paper spine label. Front endpapers with slight offsetting and just a bit of spotting, else a very fine copy. Short historical/biographical sketches of various Bay Area private presses and private press people, with their printing devices printed in red. Includes The Allen Press, The Nova Press, The Archetype Press, Mallette Dean, The Peregrine Press, Herbert and Peter Fahey, Helen Gentry, The Grabhorn Press, The Colt and Jumbo Presses, Johnck and Seeger, The Windsor Press, and many others. David Magee has selected a few representative titles for each press discussed. [Grabhorn: 622]..