Peregrine Press Sampler.

Portfolio, ca. 15" high, with loose contents. Very good condition overall. A sample of work from the Peregrine Press, which began operating in 1949 and played a significant place in the postwar flourishing of San Francisco literary culture. The sampler offered in their 1959 broadside catalog (item 28 in our list) contained 35 items, we have counted 40 in the present example. These samplers were apparently made up by whim based on what was available. Hereafter HE = Henry Evans, PP = Peregrine Press, PB = Porpoise Bookshop, SF needs no explanation. 1. Abstract woodcut with poem on back ca. 6 X 9 - Then let not laughter tear my throat and bind 2. Cat in white outline on brown 9 X 12 3. Cat or feline in white on blue 9 X 12 4. Japanese mood, tea cup and moon/sun (?) in line drawing, captioned 100 copies printed by HE at the PP 5. Female nude in dark brown flanked by sunflowers in yellow 6. Keep the Fires Burning, caption in blue, sketchy figures in a frame 7. Cluster of frogs ? 5 1/2 X 9 8. Domestic scene, chair and purse or case with handle (?) 9. Sheet printed on one side with "S," text about mushrooms, p. 33 (from Patricia Evans, The Mycophagists' Book] 10. Title page or prospectus Man / 10 blocks cut by Rick Barton / SF / the PB / 1959 11. Fish / six color-prints by / Robert Quick / the PB / Clement Street / SF 1959 double page 12. Home Brew. double-page. 500 copies printed by HE for the ALA meeting in SF July 1959 13. Tributes to Allan Nevins, one on each side of a small leaf 14. Leaf from an antiquarian catalog, four items, two on each side 15. Poem, "As the Wide World"; "The Unrepentant Sea" - leaf printed on both sides 16. Ex Libris PP 17. Wm Packard and Robert Le Vigne (only this text on a large brown leaf) 18. Poem As the Wide World, this identified as by Jack Curtis on large leaf 19. Amusing birth announcement in form of a movie ticket for Mr. & Mrs. Joel Rogosin 20. Double page, "Like Empedokles," annotated "Proof only", vertical format 21. Stiffly folded small broadside, offering inks for sale by PB 22. The Unrepentant Sea, poem printed alone (p. 14) 23. Leaf about early California wineries, pp. 13-14, mentions Agoston Haraszthy, illustration of barrels in green 24. Black or deep purple paper with figure in roundel in white (small) 25. Composition of gray on white, captioned "8 (And)" 26. The Porpoise, A Gallery of Graphic Arts, Patricia Evans (announcement) 27. Antiquarian catalog leaf, pp. 29-30 28. Large broadside folded in four, 1959 A list of available and forthcoming publications of the PP, item one is sampler of "about 30 examples," ink note "3 copies left" of the Packard/ Le Vigne in Sept., 1959 29. Leaf with poems, French and English, Vesuvius on one side, female nude on other [from O. V. de L. Milosz, ed. Kenneth Rexroth] (Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz, French poet) 30. Sheet about alphabets, unfolded, would make 4 pp of a signature when folded, pp. 7-10 31. Leaf with poems, pp. 21-22 32. Hopscotch [Patricia Evans], leaf, 4 pp. unfolded 33. A is for Angel, B is for Banshee (unfolded, printed both sides) 34. Clown in white on red, signed RQ in plate 35. Poem with "bracelet" vignette This Warm Hand, ditto (Medusa?) No other world awaits 36. Very large double sheet with nude and snake, denunciation of machine printed, p. 8 37. Small double sheet, printing press 38. San Francisco Churches, Rick Barton, title page, double-page 39. Female nude signed Hagedorn in plate, white on black 40. Pelican, large sheet. This item is sold not subject to return.…