Grace Hoper Press (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition, Limited 300 copies. William Wreden [Grace Hoper Press], 1974. Very Good condition (light corner creases). NO owner's name or bookplate. 1974. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies. Pamphlet printed as a Christmas Greeting from Byra & Bill Wreden [William Wreden, Bookseller]. Text is from an 1849 description of gold rush San Francisco. Pages are clean and unmarked. Printed by Sherwood and Katharine Grover at the Grace Hopper Press. Bound in the original wraps, printed in red and black. The distinguished bookseller William Wreden's (1910-1995) bibliographical library was sold at Swann Galleries in New York in a two-day sale in 1990. In memory of his continued support of their Libraries, Stanford University awards the Byra J. and William P. Wreden Prize for Collecting Books and Materials. . First Edition, Limited 300 copies. Softcover (cord tied). Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Blue wrappers printed in black, slender 4to., (ii), 26, (1) pages. One of 225 copies typeset and printed in the main by Sherwood Grover and completed by Felicia Rice at her Moving Parts Press in tribute to him. A fine copy in archival mylar.

Condition: Good. Broadside. Folio. Letterpress, Black & Red Ink, Printed on Cream Laid Paper with Deckled Edges. Very Good with light creasing. Colophon [on verso]: "At the September 20, 1983 meeting of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, this keepsake was sponsored by: Paul Birkel, Steve Corey, Franklin Gilliam, Sherwood Grover, Wade Hugham, Jim Linden, Barney Rosental, Albert Sperisen, Christopher Stickel and Dorothy Whitnah."At head of title: "While I was nervously waiting for the time to come for me to preside for the first time as the new Master of the Press--Jane [Grabhorn], aware of my tension, smoothed the way by writing the following introduction to Dr. Herbert Evans' talk. Eight years later we print this act of kindness on her birthday. Now, fourteen years later, we do it again.--The Grace Hopers [i.e. Grace Hoper Press, San Francisco].". …

Original wraps. 1st. First edition thus, Limited Edition to 126 copies printed by the Grace Hoper Press for the Zamorano-Roxburghe joint meeting of 1972. SIGNED in pencil 'Valenti Angelo.' 8vo. 6 pp. Yellow cardstock covers printed in red; title page printed with large initial 'V" in red; publisher's(?) handmade marbled paper dustjacket. A fine copy in good dustjacket (rear flap separated & laid in; chips & tears; lower 1/3 of rear panel missing). "These verses of Valenti Angelo's were resurrected by Bob Grabhorn. We think them charming and redolent of the era. The Bob in both verses is of course our Bob Grabhorn. Jack, is John I. Gannon, a member of the Grabhorn Press. Gregg, is Gregg Anderson, then a member of the Grabhorn Press. Oldfield, is Otis Oldfield the San Francisco artist. James Lamar Weygand made the paper. We thank him and thank Valenti Angelo for permission to print these verses from the past. The Grace Hopers" (Printer's Note) Contains two poems, "The Picture" July 21, 1926, and "Where Are They?" December 20, 1930. …

Condition: Good. 12mo. Folded Sheet [4 pp.] Letterpress on Laid Paper. Black & Ochre Ink. Very Good. Scarce First Edition.