Garnett Porter Ed (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Octavo in beige printed self-wrappers; p. 287-353 & 123-139; facsim. reprod. plate; 24 cm. San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851.; Gold Rush; California -- History -- 1850-1950. Fine with very tiny superficial chip to spine head.

Hard cover. Condition: Fair. No jacket. Spine is sunned, but text is legible. Water damage inside book, visible on inside covers and endpapers, but not on pages themselves. Two very small stains on top and fore edges of text block, visible on the edges of some pages, but not covering text. Text is clean and unmarked. As is.…

GARNETT, Porter, ed. Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851. Berkeley, 1910-1911. 2 vols. 69; 19 pp. Frontis. Orig. printed wraps. (Academy of Pacific Coast History, pubs. v. 1 no. 7, and v. 2 no. 2.) Fine.

First edition. 250 pp. Very near fine in full black cloth with printed spine label. Designed by Jack Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press. One of 450 copies.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Limited edition of 450 copies printed. Spine cloth is lightly tanned, but label is unaffected. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. First edition. 2 volumes. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (name on front panel, vol. II. ).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Philosophical Writings on the Ideal Book - with Laboratory Press Ephemera & note by Stauffacher and with Greenwood Press / Laboratory Press Ephemera. Plus we add the P. Garnett Book "What is it" -- -- The Book Club of California, 1994. Limited edition of 450 copies printed. Designed by Jack Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press, San Francisco, Typesetting by Francesca Stauffacher. With typed note on 'Greenwood Press Compliments' card by Jack Stauffacher to Katherine Way, whose husband, David Way had passed away the year before. Signed: "all my best Jack" Also laid in by Stauffacher in an envelope with the text: "Printing and the Renaissance" in red: a folded card with Garnett's "DECALOGUE FOR CRAFTSMEN", printed in an edition of 150 (on the Gietz in 1994, see below6), celebrating the publication of the book. Laid into the card are a photo of P. Garnett and the first group of students at the Laboratory Press 1924. And a print from the original Laboratory Press line engraving of a thank you letter to the Lanston Monotype Machine company for donating of the Poliphilus and blado type fonts. In addition, a folded card board protects a folded broadside (17.5"x11.25") with an illustration and the chronology of the Gietz Hand-fed Press, for the New Laboratory Press. One of 150 copies printed on the Gietz in 1994. -- Plus we add the P. Garnett Book "What is it An Aestetical Investigation" Students' Project from the Laboratory Press, Specimen No. 14, 1931, 21 pages + colophon. Marbled boards, some rubbing to the boards and spine, pages fine. -- Book and Ephemera In Fine, Like NEW condition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8 x 5", full reddish brown leather, gilt ruled, raised bands, gilt lettering, teg, 190pp + printer's note. Covers have light wear, a tiny scrape on front cover else very good to fine condition. Some of the chapters: "Hand-Press Printing: A Plea For A Lost Craft", "Printing As Architecture", "The Two Worlds Of Typography". Limited to 225 copies on Bishopstoke paper. SIGNED RABAU BINDING. …