Search Results: Titles starting with T from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

Chicago: David C. Cook. Good. 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. 93pp.; square 8vo; red half cloth and marbled boards; illustrated with charming black & white vignettes throughout. Moderate soil to cloth; top edge and foredge of boards rubbed, the latter rubbed through; a bit of thumbing to title & copyright pages. Healdsburg, California born Mary Bamford, contrary to many in her day, is considered to have been sympathetic to the Chinese wanting to enter the United States. One of her many other publications was Angel Island: the Ellis Island of the West. .

San Francisco: Pancake Press. Fine. 1983. First Edition. Softcover. 0942908066 . 8vo. Gray wrappers. Inscribed: "To S. Corey from the press/thanks for the help/Patrick." The late Stephen D. Corey was Librarian of the Donahue Rare Book Room at the Gleeson Library, Universi ty Of San Francisco. He is fondly remembered for his enthusiastic support of fine printing.; Signed by Author(s) .

Radnor, PA: News America Publications. Very Good. 1991. Softcover. 240 pp.; 12mo; color illustrated black wrappers. One inch closed tear rear leading edge, else a fresh copy. .

Programme de la Matinee Musicale donnee par M. Henry Bernestiel au Theatre de la Bodiniere, 1895. Original single sheet folded to 9" x 5.5"; printed in blue on both sides. Fine condition. Together With: Palais Du Trocadero, Matinee Annuelle, au benefice de L'Association de Secours Mutuels des Artistes Dramatiques, (Fondee Par Le Baron Taylor). Original sheet of card stock printed on both sides, folded to 10" x 6.5". Paris, 1895. Featuring La Marseillaise. Program separated at spine fold, taped at two junctures; browning; chip out of leading back corner; closed tear at back foredge. Poor condition for a fragile, scarce item. .

N.Y. & Chicago. 1896. METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE, New York. Program for Double Bill: Verdi's,La Traviata with La Navarraise by Massenet. J. T. Cowdery Publisher. 4 pp., with an extra page 2 laid in;11.5" x 9.5"; includes announcements of the season's performances; complete lists of boxholders in various sections; numerous advertisements. 1" closed tear at lower foredge of all pages; some age tanning. Overall very good. Together with THE AUDITORIUM, Chicago. Program of 1896 Grand Opera production of Bizet's, Carmen. Single printed, illustrated sheet folded to 7.5" x 5"; cover photo of opera house Shows minor creasing at extremities; two half-inch closed tears top edge. Very Good condition. .

San Francisco: The Book Club of California. As New in As New dust jacket. 1990. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 450 copies printed by Meriden-Stinehour Press. 120 pp., frontis; 13,1/8 × 9¼; forty-one numbered reproductions. Type Galliard linotronic, the main title and chapter headings set in Golden Cockerell type at the Rampant Lions Press. Paper machine made. Bound in linen boards, decoration on front cover and title. In plain glassine jacket. Without prospectus. "The Golden Cockerel Press edition of The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ(1931) is one of the acknowledged masterpieces of the twentieth century. Locating and utilizing a great many documents, including, for example, the original paste-ups for the entire text, the patterns and punches, sketches and other working papers, John Dreyfus has shed considerable new light on how this superb work was conceived, planned and executed". (Harlan, Two Hundreth Book 51-52) .

Covelo, California: Two Thumbs Press. Fine. 1985. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated tan paper over boards, lettered & illustrated in green; each text page with facing block-print illustration. "Printed on Arches text in Veronese and Greco bold types in an edition of 99 while serving as an apprentice at The Yolla Bolly Press, Fall 85. This is copy number 65. Laid in is holograph letter on the letterhead of Gotthold's later Foolscap Press in Santa Cruz, California - started in 1990. The letter is to late San Francisco graphic artist, printer, Richard Zybert thanking him for a note, and "I hope you are not disappointed in the change in subject matter . . . We are now finishing the binding of The Man in Asbestos, " etc. ; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; (12) pages; There have always been plenty of frogs in Covelo and this is the short tale of two of them, Gravity and Levity. .

San Francisco: The Colt Press [1939]. Very Good. 1939. Limited to 750 copies. Hardcover. 4to; paper covered boards, black cloth back with paper spine label. Browning to covers at extremities. .

San Francisco: The Colt Press [1939]. Very Good. 1939. Limited to 750 copies. Hardcover. Signed by the author on title page. 4to; paper covered boards, black cloth back with paper spine label. Browning to covers at extremities; adhesive residue from bookplate on front pastedown. In plain brown paper jacket with closed tear a foot of spine, wear at corners.; Signed by Author(s) .

San Francisco: (Press of Eastman Co.). Good. 1893. First Edition. Softcover. Ex - Pacific Union Club Library with their bookplate front pastedown and little else in the way of library treatments save for a few call numbers on verso of title page, most in pencil. Presentation inscription probably entered by library staff on front endpaper: "Presented to the Pacific Union Club Library by Mr. W. H. Crocker, 1923." 198pp.; 8vo; original illustrated wrappers, bound in a later photomount pamphlet binder; illustrated with seven engravings, including two full page. Covers age toned at extremities; 1" closed tear at leading margin page 60. Otherwise, pretty well preserved in the binder. Cowan p. 35; Kurutz 37, stating: "Barra according to Cowan, Worked at one time as a saloon keeper catering to the printing trade. These privately printed reminiscences are based on a log or "sea diary," Cowan also states that Barra was a well-known character around San Francisco. .

London: Nash & Grayson. Very Good. 1927. Hardcover. 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn. Spine faded. .

(San Francisco?): Lev (2004). Near Fine. 2004. Softcover. 20 unnumbered pages; 4to; illustrated wrappers; cartoon illustrations throughout. CD ROM in envelope affixed to inside rear cover. Light crease across upper leading corner front and first 11 pages. .

The Sheep Meadow Press. Near Fine. 1990. Softcover. 0935296913 . Fading to spine and rear cover along spine. ; Blue wrappers. ; 8.8 X 5.9 X 0.8 inches; 264 pages .

Santa Fe, NM: N. H. (Jack) Thorp. Fine. 1926. First Edition. Softcover. Brown wrappers; photo-frontis. Thorp was also the author of Songs of the Cowboys. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 123 pages .

Watsonville, CA: Blackwell's Press. Fine. 1975. Softcover. Inscribed "For Bill Witherup, May 1978." Number 149 of 200 copies. Decorative light brown wrappers lettered in black.; 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall; Signed by Author(s) .

Tasmania: Dept. Of Industrial Development (no date c 1955). Fine in Good dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. 4to. 64 pgs. Red cloth in lightly creased and chipped jacket with a 3" closed tear top front edge Illustrated with photographic reproductions in black & white and color, 1 full page map. Promotional book for the island as destination and port of call. .

Roma: Accademia Del Brandy Italiano. Near Fine. 1982. Wraps. 8vo. Issue number 21 of this annual on Italian brandy. Illustrated with full page line drawings. Text is in Italian. .

Cotati, Berkeley: Back Roads, Ross Books. Near Fine. 1977. First Edition. Softcover. 0918510015 . Inscribed by the author "to Ruth Witt- Diamant, the founding spirit, gratefully, & with love." Witt-Diamant was the founder of The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. Brown wraps, illustrations designed by Susan Fisher.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author(s) .

Covelo, California: The Yolla Bolly Press (2001). As New. 2001. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Copy 112 of 170 numbered copies, signed by the artist on the colophon. 196 pp. ; 7" x 10"; text printed entirely by letterpress; bound in German Fabric over archival boards; French endsheet; in slipcase of German paper over archival boards. Illustrated with 14 drawings by artist Vivienne Flesher, several of which are printed in multiple colors by a combination of duotone lithography and letterpress. Vittorini's first novel, written between 1936 and 1937, and first published in the U. S. In 1951 under the title In Sicily. A story about a young man who returns to the mountain village of his youth to reunite with his mother, the friends of his father, and the beauty of the land. This special edition is introduced by Ernest Hemingway who much admired the writer's work, and also includes an autobiographical essay by the author which appears with the text for the first time as an afterword. .

Washington, D. C.: War Department. Near Fine. 1943. Softcover. Slight dog-ear crease to leading top edge with some effect to first 19 pages; soil to leading top corner and edge front cover. ; Printed gray wrappers; front cover hand-stamped in red with red rule, S-3 FILE. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 144 pages .