Collection of Fine Press Ephemera from the Roxburghe, Zamorano and Book Club of California.
V.p., v.d.
-Single leaf, 11 1/2 x 16 1/2, printed on both sides, oval portrait to recto, color facsimile to verso; very good.
-Folio, 10 1/4 x 15”, with photographic frontisportrait inlaid, facsimile of a handwritten letter tipped in, printed in black and red, deckled fore- and lower edge; very good.
-Broadside, 9 3/4 x 13”, printed in green, pink, and black, woodblock initial and woodcut, lower edge deckled, minor creases and foxing; very good.
-Folio, 9 x 14”, with broadside tipped in, 8 1/8 13” printed in black and blue; very good.
-Small folio, 10 1/2 x 5 1/2”, printed in blue and black, digitally printed photo, with dinner invitation and order form tipped in, deckled fore-edge; very good.
-Small broadside, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2”, with woodcut; very good.
-Small broadside, 11 x 6 7/8”, printed in blue and black, color photograph printed as headpiece; very good.
-Small folio, 5 3/4 x 11”, accordion fold, printed in black and blue, with a facsimile letter inserted into a sleeve on the title page; very good.
§ --“Facsimile page of the 42-line Gutenberg Bible...This memento and keepsake is presented by Edward Repan-Petko in commemoration of the Centenary of the birth of his father Adam Repan-Petko — 18 January 1996...Presented...August 8th, 1996 and October 26-27, 1996.”
--“John Muir 1838-1914” 200 copies printed in October 1996, designed and produced by Marianne Hinckle, Año Nuevo Island Press, San Francisco.
--“At the next meeting of the Roxburghe Club Dixon Wecter will speak on ‘Mark Twain and the West...’” Carroll T. Harris Master of the Press, n.d.
--“Typography,” by J.H. Mason at the end of his essay “Printing” from the book Fifteen Craftsmen on Their Crafts, now printed by Peter Koch in San Francisco for Drew Nadell and Gale Herrick in 1984 as a keepsake...
--“Poetry at the Edge Five Contemporary Poets,” announcement, order form, and dinner invitation, printed for the Book Club of California, 2014.
--Dinner invitation, “The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco In Search of Antartic Whales, Richard C. Dehmel, Ph.D...” by Wade C. Hugan 2014.
--Poem,“December Moon” by May Sarton, from Coming into Eighty and illustration “Moon & Jet Trail” by Jonathan L. Clark. Privately printed for Jonathan L. Clark at The Artichoke Press...2013.
--“A Great Place to Get Rich,” keepsake presented by Gary Kurutz and John Windle, printed by Richard Siebert in an edition of 125 copies, 2014. The original letter is now in the Bancroft Library. Item #108131
Price: $175.00