signed first edition Hardcover
1985 · San Francisco
by Hawk, John T.; Wagener, Richard (Foreword)
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [designed and produced by Peter Rutledge Koch], 1985. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Dean, Mallette. One of 350 copies (plus 26 hors de commerce), quarto size, 171 pp., with order form and prospectus, signed by John Hawk. (Harold) Mallette Dean (1907-1975), an eminent printer and illustrator of the San Francisco Bay Area, was a well-known and highly-regarded San Francisco bay area printer and illustrator. Beginning his career in 1935 with the illustrious Grabhorn Press (for whom he worked for fifteen years), and later with the Allen Press, he eventually opened his own printing press in Fairfax, (truncated)