San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo, full reddish brown letter with gilt spine title; (viii), 168 pp., illustrated with handcolored title page vignette, decorative initials and headpieces by Valenti Angelo. Edition of 200 copies, 175 numbered for sale and 25 special copies for Herbert Rothchild. This copy... More about THE SUBTYL HISTORYES AND FABLES OF ESOPE. Translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe by William...

(Greenbrae): The Allen Press, 1986. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo (10.75 x 7 inches), gray cloth, acetate jacket; (53) pp., title page printed in colors, 2 full-page illustrations, several vignette illustrations in the text, handcolored initials; text handset in Menhart Uncial and Garamond Bold on handmade Richard de Bas paper;. Lovely... More about BARLAAM and JOSEPHAT

(Kentfield): The Allen Press, 1974. Limited edition. Hardcover. Illustrated with a full-page reproduction from a wood engraving of Saint Anthony and 24 additional engravings from various sources, (83) pp; quarto (13.5 x 9.75 inches), bound in Fortuny cloth hand-blockedf in a Persian floral pattern; text handset in Menhart Unciala and... More about THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY

Kentfield: The L - D Allen Press, 1953. Limited edition. Hardcover. 90 pp., 6 full-page woodcut illustrations by Mallette Dean printed in 3 colors; 8vo (10 x 6.5 inches), bound in wood veneer over boards with rose Fabriano paper spine. Prospectus laid in. The 12th book from the Allen Press. Edition of 200 copies. More about ROUGHING IT IN CALIFORNIA

Kentfield: The Allen Press, 1975. Limited edition. Beige cloth spine and decorative block-printed cloth boards, acetate jacket; 126 pp., quarto (13 x 9 inches). Title page printed in orange, gray, and red; running titles and highlights of the four stories printed in orange, green, gray, and mauve. Types are Romanee... More about QUARTET: Four Stories. [Roman Fever, The Other Two, The Last Asset, Afterward

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1993. Limited edition. Hardcover. Half leather and marbled boards, marbled slipcase; xi, 29 pp. A facsimile of the 1775 original edition. Edition of 250 copies. More about THE ART OF ENGLISH SHOOTING by George Edie (1775). The third treatise in English on the subject...

San Francisco: Arion Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 32 pp., 8vo, original brown cloth boards. Text is a paper delivered by its author to "the Club, a group of a dozen gentlemen, established in 1950, that meets ten times each year for the reading of a paper by a member... More about THE APOCRYPHAL WISDOM OF SOLOMON

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1997. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto, beige cloth; 67 pp. illustrated with 1 photogravure plate by Jim Dine. Edition of 226 copies; 200 numbered for sale, this #77. Signed in the colophon by Jim Dine. The photogravure is from Dine's "Ape and Cat" series. More about THE MADONNA OF THE FUTURE

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1992. Limited edition. Hardcover. Quarto, green cloth with paper title labels, real buffalo nickel inset on front cover; 117 pp., illustrated with title-page vignette and 4 full-page wood engravings. Edition of 400 numbered and 26 lettered copies, this #16. Autographed on the limitation page by author and artist. More about AMERICAN BUFFALO

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1999. Limited edition. Hardcover. Small quarto, rust brown cloth with pictorial paper inset on front cover, printed paper spine label, matching slipcase; 110 pp., 8 full-page illustrations by Stan Washburn. Edition of 326 copies; 300 numbered for sale, this #176. Signed in the colophon by... More about THE PRICE: A Play

San Francisco: Arion Press, 1991. Limited edition. Hardcover. ix, 107, [1] pp., illustrated with 8 "relief prints" by Arakawa; large quarto (13.5 x 9.75 inches), rose cloth with title design in red and gray. Fine, though the linen sewing tapes integral to the binding have caused discoloration to the inner... More about EUREKA: A Prose Poem. An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe. (With an introduction by...

San Francisco: Arion Press, 2008. Limited edition. Hardcover. Purple cloth with printed paper title labels on front cover and spine (the one on the front cover is in the shape of a squat medicine bottle), matching slipcase; 372 pp., illustrated with 14 prints by Stan Washburn; 8vo (9 x 6... More about TONO-BUNGAY

San Francisco: Peregrine Press / Porpoise Bookshop, 1959. First edition. Paperback. 8 loose leaves, 17.5 x 11.75 inches, gray wrappers. Lower right corner bumped, slight foxing to title leaf. The subjects of the pictures are: Holy Trinity (Van Ness and Green); Our Lady of Kazan; St. John Chrysostom; Holy trinity... More about SAN FRANCISCO CHURCHES: seven blocks cut by Rick Barton