Catalogue of some five hundred examples of the printing of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, 1970-1960, two gentlemen from Indiana now resident in California : offered for sale at the book shop of David Magee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magee, David Bickersteth, 1905-1977, author, publisher.

Contributor:

Farquhar, Marjory Bridge, 1903-1999, photographer.

Grabhorn Press, printer.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grabhorn Press--Catalogs.

Grabhorn Press.

Printing--United States--Catalogs.

Printing.

United States.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Case bindings (Binding)

Dust jackets (Binding)

Bibliographies.

Booksellers' catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Grabhorn Press 2) (Grabhorn Press 74))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Grabhorn Press 2) (Grabhorn Press 74)

Smith, Roger Bixby, 1904-1984 (former owner) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Grabhorn Press 74)

Physical Description:

xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 63 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm

Manufacture:

[San Francisco] : Grabhorn Press.

Other Title:

Two gentlemen from Indiana

Place of Publication:

San Francisco 2, California : Offered for sale at the book shop of David Magee, [1961?]

Notes:

"Our thanks to the editors of California librarian for permission to reprint our article Two gentlemen from Indiana in whose pages it originally appeared. D[avid]. M[agee]."--Page [iii].

"250 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press of which 225 are for sale. The photographs are the work of Marjory Farquhar and were taken early in 1961 with the exception of the first two which were taken in 1937. They are published with her kind permission."--Colophon.

Colophon and captions of illustrations in red.

Bound in half cloth over decorative paper boards.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has "Note" about special edition laid in.

RBC copy has "Note" about special edition laid in.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript bibliographical note in pencil on front free endpaper.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Grabhorn Press 2 & 74) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Grabhorn Press 2) has "Note" about special edition of this work laid in.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Grabhorn Press 2) in plain paper dust jacket with typescript label ("GRABHORN / MAGEE. 1960 Some 500 books/ Two Gents from IN") taped to spine.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Grabhorn Press 74) has large mailing envelope of David Magee Book Shop addressed in typescript to "Mr. Roger Bixby Smith 700 Flintridge Ave. Pasadena, Calif.") laid in.

OCLC:

10908502