202: FINE PRINTING & HISTORY OF THE BOOK JEFF WEBER RARE BOOKS #202: 318 items, continuing from part I of this catalogue (Jeff Weber Rare Books catalog 189), contains many specimens of fine printing, (especially from California: Plantin Press, etc.), books on collecting, printing history, binding history, design, librarianship, leaf books, Limited Editions Club, Nonesuch Press, Bruce Rogers, etc. Highlights include: Grabhorn Press, Powell's Santa Fe Trail to California 1849-1852 [#628], a specially signed copy of The Malibu by Lawrence Clark Powell, signed books by Kenneth Rexroth, a leaf book for the Doves Press [#687] - including a leaf printed on vellum. My favorite item is the Thomas J. Wise edition of the Ashley Library catalogue in 10 volumes, this copy inscribed by Wise to Alice Millard, the noted Pasadena bookseller, being one of just 50 sets on English hand-made paper.
How to request a print version: Write to: weberbks@pacbell.net