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Includes:

• A Good Book Merits a Good Binding. Reprinted from Graphic Arts Monthly. Cloth-backed boards. 1931.
• Courier-Express Roto-Radio Talk on Book-Binding by John F. Grabau. November 27th, 1932. Station WKBW. Typescript of radio address, illustrated with clipped and pasted images from another source. Blue morocco-backed cloth.
• [Another copy]. Full red cloth.
• [Another copy]. 11x8½". "Typed for Florence A. Huck by Mildred E. Baker, co-author. Bound by John F. Grabau for his friend and pupil who is much interested may she approve of this latest effort.". Folding sheet from the Buffalo Courier-Express bound in at front. Blue morocco-backed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Gilt stamp of John Grabau inside front cover. 
• Catalog of an An Exhibition of Bookbinding. Representing the Work of Twenty-five Years by John F. Grabau. Original wrappers. 1930.
• Walker, Dugald Stewart. The Dust of Seven Days. Original boards. Presentation from the author to John F. Grabau on front free endpaper, Grabau's bookplate on front pastedown. 1924.
• Wachter, Carl. Star Glints. Three-quarter blue morocco and boards, spine gilt, top edge gilt. No. 27 of 700 copies. Signed by the author at limitation and additionally inscribed on frontispiece. Published (and presumably bound) by John F. Grabau. 1917.
• A ring binder containing various clippings, photocopies, and ephemera relating to John Grabau.
• Three wood-handled binding stamps from the studio of John F. Grabau. Marked "F. Klement, Leipzig, Germany, 1902". Two are leaves, the third a plant vine.

Also,

• Loti, Pierre. L'Exilee. Full brown morocco by Frances Hubbard Larkin, her gilt stamp and bookplate inside front cover. Larkin was the sister of Elbert Hubbard and had many bindings executed by Grabau in her library. This volume likely bound by her in Grabau's studio.
• Anthon, Charles. Sallust. Full red cloth. A note tipped to front endpaper explains: "Bound in red cloth by A. Gow Brownell in the John F. Grabau Studio c.1938. Brownell was a student at the studio."
• Bedier, Joseph. La Chanson de Roland. Stitched signatures with boards attached, binding unfinished.  A note tipped to front endpaper explains: "Partially bound by A. Gow Brownell in the John F. Grabau Studio c.1938. Brownell was a student at the studio."

An interesting group of material.