Colt Press (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo, blue pictorial wrappers printed in red, [16]pp. The text is rubricated. With the original post-card order form loosely inserted. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Limited to 750 copies. Inscribed and Signed by Jane Grabhorn to fellow printer-bookman, Porter Garnett: "with love to Porter and Edna Garnett from Jane Grabhorn, August 1939". Cover slightly age discolor and with small scratch, still Very good to Fine. Black cloth spine with grey-green paper on boards, paper spine and cover labels in excellent condition. 66 pages. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Paperbound, 4 3/4Ó x 8 1/4Ó. An illustrated, finely printed catalogue of offerings (past, present, and future) from The Colt Press in San Francisco, celebrating its first anniversary. Fine in printed wrappers, dark orange lettering and decorative logo design on bright yellow paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 3 volumes : illustrations. The three volumes are in excellent condition; boards and cover images are fresh, corners sharp; contents fine, though the binding of the Hawaii volume has cracked between pages 8 and 9. The original slipcase shows rubbing to title label and to edges, but is otherwise completely intact. 440 grams.

Original Wrappers. Condition: Very Good+ binding. First Edition. Small octavo. [16] pp. As issued, stapled into self wrappers. Lengthy introduction in Grabhorn's inimitable prose as well as upcoming books for 1940. Final leaf is a perforated order from. Soiling to the covers, but largely a clean, bright copy of an early piece of Colt Press ephemera. Compleat Jane Grabhorn, p. 36-38. Scarce in commerce and only a few institutions reporting ownership according to OCLC.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Stapled advertising booklet, 8 pp. Laid in are an order card with a list of titles, and apost card to order Henry Miller's Colossus of Maroussi. All in the original mailing envelope. Minor corner bend to booklet; some darkening, soiling, and even a bit of moisture staining to envelope, but not affecting interior items. Scarce Colt Press ephemera!

One of 750 copies. Vignette illustrations in the margins. 4to., original blue cloth backed paper covered boardw itha print of the Colt Press device in silver on black paper on the upper cover, printed paper spine label. Some darkening to edges, otherwise a good copy.

One of 500 copies. Printed in black, brown and red. 2 facsimiles of pictures by Edward Vischer. 8vo., original green cloth backed, patterned paper covered boards. Head and tail of spine a little rubbed, otherwise a good copy, without the wrappers. With the prospectus of all the other Colt Press books. No. 1 of the California Classics series. The first separate printing of Stevenson's classic description of Monterey from when he lived there in 1879.

One of 550 copies. Facsimile of The Wasp bound in. Printed in red and black. Sq. 8vo., original cream cloth backed patterned paper covered boards, printed paper spine label. Some damage to small area of upper cover, otherwise good. An overview of Ambrose Bierce's journalistic experiences in San Francisco including one of his book reviews - "The covers of this book are too far apart".

* With handwritten postcard from the printer Will Carter * 2 Vols, folio, quarter green buckram lettered in gilt over strikingly decorative yellow Tatsumaki Japanese paper boards by Mansell of London, housed in the original card slip-case. ** Edition Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the artist George Mackley. Designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press in Monotype Arrighi types on Original Turkey Mill paper. *** The c.60pp text volume includes 11 wood engravings (3 full-page) by Mackley. The accompanying portfolio comprises an extra suite of Mackleyâs wood engravings specially printed on Japanese Hosho, a paper particularly favoured by wood engravers. *** An excellent copy but for the following faults : a few light marks and scuffs to the protective slip-case : a couple of light scuffs to the surface of the paper binding of the text vol (see photo) : a few light fox spots to each of the illustrations contained in the additional portfolio of engravings. *** ** Will Carter Association : this copy with a witty handwritten postcard from Will Carter dated 9 Sept 1965 and addressed to L. Veale, a print tutor at the Berkshire College of Art. Veale had evidently drawn Will Carterâs attention to one or more errata in the text, to which Carter replied, quoting Paul Standardâs very recent Chapters on Writing & Printing (Anvil Press, Lexington, Kentucky 1963 : 134 copies only) : â âNote on errata - it is said that the polite Chinese intentionally leave errors in their books in order that the reader, on finding them, may feel superior.â (cf. Chapters on Writing and Printing) Thanks for your cheque. Will Carterâ. *** This is the first of two superb books printed by the Rampant Lions for The Two-Horse Press (Armida Colt and her husband, hence the two Colts = The Two-Horse Press). It was followed in 1968 by the Coltsâ magnificent collection of wood engravings by George Mackley titled Engraved In The Wood. *** Weeds and Wild Flowers is a scarce and uncommon Rampant Lions book. It was included in The Grolier Club Exhibition of 1999 titled A Century for the Century : Fine Printed Books 1900 â" 1999, a survey of 100 books outstanding for their âbeauty and excellenceâ, an attempt âto cull the best of the beautiful books of the entire centuryâ. **** To order this book, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question. We can then confirm availability.

Limited edition of 300 copies signed and numbered by the artist, George Mackley. Booklet and portfolio housed in original hand-made folding cloth covered case by Gray's of Cambridge, paper spine-label, 33 cm, engravings listing leaf, 68 loose leaves of wood-engravings and 18 pp. booklet. A portfolio of 68 wood engravings by George Mackley, of which 55 are printed direct firom the original blocks, with the other 13 (where the original blocks have been lost) reproduced photographically byline-blocks from surviving prints, accompanied by an illustrated booklet containing an appreciation by Ruari McLean and a glimpse of the artist by Armida Maria-Theresa Colt. Designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, Printed on T.H. Saunders mould-made paper. Copy No. 214. Elegant booklabel of Marie-Louise and Samuel Robert Rosenthal on front free endpaper of booklet. Case a little rubbed at extremities, contents Fine. With a copy of the prospectus for the book, a separate illustrated broadside advertisement and a postcard order form.

(COLT PRESS) (illustrator). (COLT PRESS) CLARK, Thomas Blake. OMAI, FIRST POLYNESIAN AMBASSADOR TO ENGLA (San Francisco): The Colt Press, 1940. 4to. Cloth spine, bark paper over boards. (iv), 114, (1) pages. One of 500 copies. A nicely printed account of Omai's visit to England and "of how he was feted Fanny Burney, approved by Samuel Johnson, entertained by Mrs. Thrale & Lord Sandwich, and painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds." A New York Times Book Review laid-in.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 51 x 39 cm, 1 page, printed in red and black, with only very short marginal flaws.

Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). First Editions. First Editions. Original boards as issued without dust jackets. Oblong in original slipcase with printed labels on cover, missing spine. THE EPICURE IN WAWAII gathered by Barbara Thompson, woodcuts by Mallette Dean, typography by Jane Grabhorn., THE EPICURE IN CHINA, drawings by Lena Peters, and THE EPICURE IN MEXICO, compiled by Doris Aller. The fragile box is seldom encountered, even in this condition. Very scarce in box.