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Published by Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1956
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. One of 200 copies. An homage to Monroe Deutsch, who was a professor, vice-president and provost at the University of California. Bound in cream paper boards with black title label to spine. In a torn and chipped cream paper dust jacket. A few spots and offsetting to endpapers. Very good condition. Quarto. 25 pages. PRI/011123.
Published by Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1956
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited Edition. 4to. Pp. 25. Beige paper covered boards, black paper label with gilt title on the spine. Laid paper, top edge trimmed. Unprinted laid jacket. Edition limited to 200, printed at the Grabhorn Press. Leaves lightly foxed. Jacket edges faintly age toned, spine chipped. Three addresses delivered October 26, 1955 at a gathering in the memory of Deutsch, recently deceased former Vice President and Provost of the University of California (Berkeley.) The classics professor is lauded for his moral clarity and deft defense of the university community through ordeals such as the communist witch-hunt. The Grabhorn Press was one of the most important letterpress printers in the Bay Area and this volume displays the good taste and skills for which it was famous. Section headings and colophon printed in black and gray. Dust jacket now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.