PRESS BOOKS from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

Passadena, California: [The Press], 1939. . Small 4to, gray/green wrappers, printed label on front cover One copy found in OCLC (Book Club of California Library).Probably the first catalogue to be issued by the Press which was founded in 1938.

[Concord, Mass.: Sign of the Vine, 1903]. . 12, original blue paper-covered boards, printed white paper label on front cover; printed in black and red; uncut and unopened. Bambace A62.The colophon reads "Arranged and put into type by Will Bradley and issued from the Sign of the Vine , Concord, Mass., 1903" Bambace notes "Printed at the Heinzeman Press… Read more about this item

San Francisco: For the Authors...on the Platrix Press, 1936. . 8vo, pale blue dust jacket over plain thin binder's board; orange printed label on front cover. AS NEW. ONE OF 250 COPIES "of which one is for sale and 249 are for private distribution. OCLC lists 11 holdings--3 outside California.The young couple are announcing the birth of their daughter… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1973. . 8vo, stiff slate-blue wrappers Originally published in the "Dublin Magazine" April/June 1929.Tancred Martel is a pseudonym of Eugne NapolŽon Franois Joseph Gras, (1856-1928) was a French writer considered to be one of the masters of French historical novel by his peers.After a youth spent in Marseille, Tancred Martel moved to Paris. He befriended… Read more about this item

Worcester: The Company, 1904. . 8vo, buff paper-covered boards, brown cloth spine Bianchi 188

Jamaica Queensborough, New York: The Press, 1909. . [26], printed on one side only. 4to, blue/gray wrappers, front printed NUMBER 82 OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE HAND-NUMBERED COPIES.First separate printing of Meredith's first published poem originally published in "Chambers's Edinburgh Journal" July 7, 1849

Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1980. . 8vo, stiff dark green wrappers, printed white paper label on front cover. Number 109 of 125 copies

Jamaica, Queensborough, N.Y.: Marion Press, 1898. . 8vo, natural suede, with steer's head on both covers; largely unopened. ONE OF 125 NUMBERED COPIES

Chicago: Fraroran Press, 1929. . 18mo, orange and black batik paper wrappers, stitched with yellow silk thread at the centerfold; first and last pages slightly browned by acid transfer from the wrappers One of less than 300 copies printed by Will and Rose Ransom on their private press, and the first completed work by the press. More Christmas Books,… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Printed for William Andrews Clark, Jr. by John Henry Nash, 1933. . 2 volumes. Small folio, gray/green paper-covered boards, vellum tips and spines in matching slipcase with chemise; slight separation in slipcase at head and tail. ONE OF 200 NUMBERED COPIES

New York: Privately Printed, Press of the Woolly Whale, 1937. . 8vo, stiff black card stock with blind embossed title at top left; stitched with white cotton string. MINT condition A printing of a chapter from Melbert Cary's "A Bibliography of the Village Press", 1938.