NOTE: THIS LOT HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN FROM SALE.
Comprises: A List of Books in Belles Lettres. Wrappers. John Lane, 1896. * Pope. The Wish. Half calf & boards. No. 15 of 120 copies by Marion Press. Hopkins, 1897. * Dodd Mead & Co’s New & Standard Books, Christmas. Printed by Will Bradley. Wrappers (Covers separated. 1898. * Irwin. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr. Wrappers. Elder & Shepard, [1902]. * Lamb, Charles. A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig. Designed by Will Bradley. [Sign of the Vine, 1903]. * Goldsmith, Oliver. Deserted Village. Linen-backed board. No. 141 of 500 copies designed by Mabel Harlow (under influence of Will Bradley). Peninsular Paper Co., [c.1905]. * Edwords. Bohemian San Francisco. With tipped-in frontis. photo. Dj (chips & tears). Elder, [1914]. * Tennyson. In Memoriam. No. 241 of 1000 copies. Philip Lee Warner, 1914. * Carey. Songs & Poems. Decorations by Robert Gibbings. Half blue morocco & cloth. No. 373 of 380 total copies. Golden Cockerel Press, [1924]. * Bacon. Funerealities. 1 of 250 copies, signed “Reviewer’s Copy.” Aldergate Press, 1925. * Zeitlin. For Whispers & Chants. Illus. by Valenti Angelo. No. 227 of 500 copies by Grabhorn Press. (Lacks spine). Lantern Press, 1927. * Byron. Manfred: A Tragedy. Quarter vellum and purple moiré cloth. No. 360 of 550 copies. Fanfrolico Press, 1929. * Keepsake, announcing A. Edward Newton as the Dinner Guest for the Book Club of CA at the Palace Hotel, SF. Folding paper. Printed by John Henry Nash, 1931. * Hand-written manuscript in black ink with red ink large initials, 92 pages. No title or author information. Begins: “Whoever had made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding country.” With a few pencil-drawn scenes. Loose leaves, not bound. [c.1930’s]. * Talbot. Historic California in Bookplates. With R.E. Cowan’s bookplate tipped-in. Graphic Press, 1936. * Come Over and Stay Till Domesday. Inscribed & signed by Valenti Angelo. 1 of 100 copies printed for Angelo. Golden Cross Press, 1937. * Purrington. Saul. A Grove Play. Bohemian Club, 1940. * A Grab[horn] Bag, Original Pages [from Various Books Printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1928-1940]. Collection of sample leaves loose inside cloth folder (as issued). Grabhorn Press, 1940. * A Luncheon Honoring Sir Francis Meynell on His Visit to San Francisco. Keepsake with green woodcut. Signed by Meynell. Folding paper (large chips). Ted Lilienthal & Lewis Allen, 1949. * Angelo, Valenti. A set of 4 bookmarks. Proof Skivers of a quadriad of bookmarks designed & screen printed by Valenti Angelo, Bronxville, New York, 1951” stated on paper labels. One green cloth, one blue cloth, one red morocco and one black paper, with gilt stamping and other coloring (some by hand). Each affixed to card-stock backing, inside folding matting and acetate cover. * Angelo, Valenti. True Charity: An example by San Bernardino of Siena. 1 of 50 copies. Wrappers. [Chiswick, 1960]. * Kent, Rockwell. The Jewel: A Romance of Fairyland. 2 volumes. One cloth-backed boards, one wrappers, together in slipcase. Facsimile Ed. 1 of 500 copies. Baxter Society, [1990]. * Stauffacher, comp. Porter Garnett: Philosophical Writings on the Ideal Book. Book Club of CA, 1994. Together, 24 items: 21 books; 2 keepsakes; and 1 set of bookmarks made by Valenti Angelo. Most with illustrations. 24mo to 4to. Mostly cloth or boards, one in jacket; five are wrapper-bound.