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9 volumes. Various bindings and limitations. First Editions.

A miscellaneous selection of scarce works printed by San Francisco's John Henry Nash, as well as a biography of the man and his work.  A few volumes are signed or inscribed. Eight unique titles, nine volumes in all. 

Includes:

• Taylor, Edward Robeson. De Mortuis. Printed for Private Circulation. Near fine. [Taylor, Nash & Taylor], 1913.
• Lynch, Jeremiah. The Lady Isis in Bohemia. Illustrated with wood cuts. (4to), wrappers. With Inscription by the author, dated 1915.  Darkening to edges, some loss to spine strip; good or better. One of 1500 copies. Taylor, Nash and Taylor, San Francisco, 1914.
• Bynner, Witter. The New World. Decorative paper covered boards. Spotting to boards, spine strip lacking; else very good. Decorative bookplate of Edward Dean Lyman. Unnumbered copy matching the issue of  350 numbered copies. John Henry Nash, 1919.
• [Prospectus] the Life of Saint Francis of Assisi By Saint Bonaventura. Folio. Single sheet folded twice to make a 4-pp. booklet. 2 sample printed leaves of the book laid in, as issued. Near fine. John Henry Nash, 1924. 
• The Earl of Chesterfield. The Dress of Thoughts.  Privately printed for R.M Tobin, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, with his inscription on front free endpaper. Very good. One of 100 copies. John Henry Nash, 1927.
• Cowan, Robert Ernest. The Heathen Chinee Plain Language from Truthful James. Bibliographical Notes on certain of the Earliest Editions. (2 copies).  8pp. (Folio), cherry red sewn wrappers, paper cover label. One copy is inscribed by Cowan. Some light wear; very good or better. John Henry Nash, 1934.
• Buckley, Michael J. Day At The Farm. Cloth-backed boards, jacket with paper spine label. With the decorative bookplate of Alfred Sutro. Offsetting from bookplate, glue residue from where another plate has come loose (laid in); else near fine. John Henry Nash, 1937.
• Harlan, Robert D. John Henry Nash : The Biography of a Career. (8vo), blue cloth stamped in silver gilt. Marginalia in pencil throughout; very good. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, University of California Press, 1970.