[GBW] [Fwd: The Arion Press is offering a limited number of Grabhorn Press and Grabhorn-Hoyem Press Books for Sale]

[Judy <judy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Signa Houghteling

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Subject: 	[GBW] The Arion Press is offering a limited number of Grabhorn 
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Date: 	Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:43:28 -0700
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Dear GBW Members,

Respond directly to The Arion Press, not this ListServe.

The books of the Grabhorn Press and Grabhorn-Hoyem Press are treasures! 
See the list below for a few which have been rediscovered and are up for 
sale, some in sheets, some partially forwarded, etc. Additional 
information about specific books may be obtained by contacting The Arion 
Press directly.

These are being offered to the Hand Bookbinders of California, The 
Society of Bookbinders (UK) and Designer Bookbinders (UK).

Signa Houghteling

To Hand Bookbinders: 30 March 2009

In 1972, during my partnership with Robert Grabhorn, when the company 
was known as Grabhorn-Hoyem, I arranged with Irma Grabhorn, the widow of 
Edwin Grabhorn, to acquire the balance of the Grabhorn Press equipment. 
As part of the deal we were to clean out the building at 1355 Sutter 
Street so that she could rent it. We found left-over Grabhorn Press 
limited edition books, some complete, others in various stages of 
binding and a few unbound, in sheets. After Irma’s death a few years 
ago, her heir, a grand-nephew from Germany, gave us the Grabhorn Press 
books that remained in the house: Edwin’s personal collection in the 
French armoire that served as its bookcase (which now stands in the 
entryway at Arion Press) and more odds and ends, duplicates and books 
bound and unbound and in need of repair. In addition, we discovered in 
storage some Grabhorn-Hoyem books from the period 1966-1973 that were 
uncompleted. We thought these unbound or partially bound volumes would 
appeal to bookbinders who might like to execute unique bindings on these 
attractive books. Following is a price list of those titles. In some 
instances more than one copy is available. Fuller descriptions can be 
provided on request. This offering is good for thirty days. Thereafter, 
we will begin to bind the books ourselves to be offered, along with 
other Grabhorn and Grabhorn-Hoyem books in original bindings, to our 
clientele.

Andrew Hoyem

/Reglamento para el Gobierno de la Provincia de Californias, 1784/,

Grabhorn Press, 1929. Format: 9-3/8 x 6-1/4. 56 pages. Edition: 300. $250

Sewn over cords. Companion volume, (English edition of /Regulations for/

/ Governing the Province of the Californias/, not included.)

/Stray Leaves by a Philosophical Amateur/ by Maud de Lorme Martin,

Grabhorn Press, 1929. Format: 7-1/2 x 5. 108 pages. Edition: 200. $75

Sewn over cords.

/Charles Warren Stoddard’s Diary of a Visit to Molokai in 1884, with a 
Letter from/

/ Father Damien to his Brother in 1873/,

Book Club of California (Grabhorn), 1933. Format: 6-7/8 x 4-5/8. 66 pages.

Edition: 250.

Sheets. $150

/Bibliography of Edgar A. Poe/ by John W. Robertson, Russian Hill 
Private Press

(Grabhorn), 1934. Format: 9-3/4 x 6-1/2. 244 pages. Edition: 350.

Sewn over cords. To be sold with following item $200

/Commentary on the Bibliography of Edgar A. Poe/ by John W. Robertson,

Russian Hill Private Press (Grabhorn), 1934. Format: 9-3/4 x 6-1/2. 318 
pages.

Edition: 350.

Sewn over cords. To be sold with previous item $200

/The Duke of Sacramento, a Comedy in Four Acts/ by Warren Baer, with a 
sketch of

the early San Francisco stage by Jane Bissell Grabhorn, Rare Americana

Series III, 1. Grabhorn Press, 1934. Format 9-1/4 x 6-1/4. 90 pages.

Edition: 550.

Sewn over cords. $250

/Like Dawn Sierran/, a sonnet sequence by Henry Mead Bland, Grabhorn 
Press, 1937.

Format: 8-3/4 x 6. 132 pages. Edition: 250.

Sewn. $75

/The Fisherman and His Soul/ by Oscar Wilde, with illustrations and 
initials by

Mallette Dean, Ransohoffs (Grabhorn), 1939.

Format: 10-7/8 x 8. 72 pages. Edition: 200.

Sewn, backed. $200

/The Gothic Script of the Middle Ages/, by H. C. Schulz, David Magee 
(Grabhorn),

1939. Format: 11 x 8. 22 pages. Edition: 71.

Sewn, glued, lacks original leaf. $150

/Forty-nine Opinions on our Japanese Problem/, privately printed for A. 
I. Esberg

(Grabhorn), Format: 9-1/2 x 6-1/4. 1944. 90 pages. Edition: 150.

Sewn, glued. $75

/Celebration/, a book of poems by Hoyt Hudson, Grabhorn Press, 1945.

Format: 9 x 5-1/2. 90 pages. Edition: 500.

Sewn. $75

/The Philosophy of Quality/ by Charles Flammer [Schilling Co. history], 
Grabhorn

Press, 1947. Format: 12-1/2 x 9. 100 pages. Edition: 500.

Forwarded. $100

/Essays for Henry R. Wagner/ by Charles L. Camp, Francis P. Farquhar, 
George L.

Harding, Dorothy H. Huggins, and Carl I. Wheat, Grabhorn Press, 1947.

Format: 11-1/4 x 8. 116 pages. Edition: 269 (including 9 large paper

copies, 13 x 8-3/4).

Sewn on cords (standard edition). $100

/A Few Pages from the Past for Alan Robertson, Elinor Robertson, and Mary/

/ Grabhorn/ with preface by Edwin Grabhorn, Grabhorn, Grabhorn Press,

1947. Format: 8-3/4 x 6. 22 pages. Edition: 10.

Sewn, glued. $250

/Reflecting Many Moods/ by Janet Calhoun, Grabhorn Press, 1948. Format: 
10 x 6-1/4.

40 pages. Edition: 250.

Sewn, glued. $75

/The Estiennes/ by Mark Pattison, introduction by Robert Grabhorn, Book 
Club of

California (Grabhorn), 1949. Format: 14 x 9. 58 pages. Edition: 390,

of which 50 were special copies on larger handmade paper, as is this copy.

Sewn on cords, boards attached, lacking first original leaf. $500

/The Tragedie of MacBeth/ by William Shakespeare, with woodcuts by Mary

Grabhorn, Grabhorn Press, 1952. Format: 14 x 9-3/4. 94 pages.

Edition: 180. (Second in the series of Shakespeare plays.)

Sheets $300

/The Tragedy of Richard III/ by William Shakespeare, with woodcuts by Mary

Grabhorn, Grabhorn Press, 1953. Format: 10-1/4 x 7-3/4. 197 pages.

Edition: 180. (Third in the series of Shakespeare plays.)

Sewn, glued, needs repair. $300

/To Hattie Hecht Sloss on her Eightieth Birthday/, San Francisco 
Browning Society

(Grabhorn), 1954. Format: 11 x 8-1/2. 14 pages. Edition: 40 (one on vellum).

Sewn. $50

/The Tragedie of Julius Caesar/ by William Shakespeare, with linoleum 
block prints

by Mary Grabhorn, Grabhorn Press, 1954. Format: 15 x 10-1/4. 114 pages.

Edition: 180. (Fourth in the series of Shakespeare plays.)

Sewn over vellum tapes. $300

/A Christmas Sermon/ by Robert Louis Stevenson, privately printed by Mr. 
& Mrs.

B. M. Stansbury and for Jane and Robert Grabhorn (Grabhorn), 1954.

Format: 10-1/4 x 7-1/2. 22 pages. Edition: 150.

Sewn. $100

/The Tragedie of Othello/ by William Shakespeare, with drawings by Mary

Grabhorn, Grabhorn Press, 1956. Format: 15 x 10. 118 pages.

Edition: 185. (Sixth in the series of Shakespeare plays.)

Sheets. $300

/Verses/ by Erskine Wood and a poem to her grandfather by Rebecca Wood

Esherick, privately printed (Grabhorn), 1957. Format: 10-1/2 x 7-1/2.

56 pages. Edition: 100.

Sheets. $100

/The Tragedy of King Lear/ by William Shakespeare, with woodcuts by Mary

Grabhorn, Grabhorn Press, 1959. Format: 11-3/4 x 9-1/4. 108 pages.

Edition: 180. (Seventh in the series of Shakespeare plays.)

Sheets. $300

/Nineteenth Century Type/, Grabhorn, 1959. Format: 8-3/4 x 10-3/4. 48 pages.

Edition: 300.

Sewn. $175

/Fine Printing and Bookbinding from San Francisco/, catalogued by David 
Magee,

privately printed for Carroll T. Harris for presentation to members of the

Grolier Club (Grabhorn), 1961. Format: 11-1/2 x 8-1/4. 36 pages.

Edition: 200.

Sewn. $75

/The First Part of Henry the Fourth/ by William Shakespeare, 
illustrations by Mary

Grabhorn, Grabhorn Press, 1961. Format: 14-1/2 x 10-1/2. 50 pages.

Edition: 180. (Ninth in the series of Shakespeare plays.)

Sewn. $300

/R. L. S. to J. M. Barrie/, Book Club of California (Grabhorn), 1962.

Format: 11-3/4 x 8-1/2. 36 pages. Edition: 475.

Forwarded. $150

/The Wonderful City of Carrie Van Wie/ by Oscar Lewis, illustrations 
colored with

handcut linoleum blocks, Book Club of California (Grabhorn), 1963.

Format: 14-1/2 x 10. 54 pages. Edition: 525.

Forwarded. $200

/Redondillas, or Something of that Sort/ by Ezra Pound, New Directions 
(Grabhorn

Hoyem) 1967. Format: 11 x 8-3/4. 22 pages. Edition: 110.

Sheets. Unsigned. $500

/The Compleat Jane Grabhorn/, with an introduction by Robert Grabhorn, 
Grabhorn-

Hoyem, 1968. Format: 10-1/4 x 8-3/4. 88 pages. Edition: 400.

Sheets. $250

/Forty Years: A Chronology Announcements & Keepsakes / The Roxburghe Club/

/ of San Francisco 1928-1967/, Roxburghe Club (Grabhorn-Hoyem), 1968.

Format: 12-3/4 x 9. 66 pages (plus 20 pages of illustrations). Edition: 150.

Sheets. Text pages only; lacking illustration leaves. $75

/One hundred sixty Cat Proverbs and Proverbial Similies/ edited by Jane 
Grabhorn,

Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1969. Format: 9 x 5-3/4. 46 pages. Edition: 300.

Disbound, needs repair. $150

/Mother Goose/, twenty nursery rhymes illustrated by Philip Van Aver, 
Grabhorn-

Hoyem, 1970. Format: 11 x 8-3/4. 46 pages. Edition: 200.

Forwarded. $150

/History of Mandalay Camp/ by Herman Phleger, Mandalay Camp 
(Grabhorn-Hoyem),

1972. Format: 8-1/4 x 6. 28 pages, Edition: 350.

Sheets. $100

/Addendum and Corrigenda to the Inscriptional Work of Eric Gill/, by 
David Peace,

Brick Row Book Shop (Grabhorn-Hoyem), 1972. Format: 8 x 5-1/2.

38 pages. Edition: 275.

Sewn. $30


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