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San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1939. First Edition. 49pp. Quarto [34 cm] 1/2 gray cloth over marbled boards with a printed paper label on the backstrip. Better than very good. Bookplate on front pastedown. Printed by the Grabhorn Press. This work was printed in a limitation of 455 copies. Original issue of 'The Spectator' tipped-in following the half-title. The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England, lasting from 1711 to 1712.

SF: The Book Club of California, 1939. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 455cc. 50pp. Publisher's cloth backed marbled boards with an original page of 'The Spectator' tipped in. Boards a bit darkened and rubbed with a spot of soiling to the top of the front, else very good. Publication announcement laid in.

SF: The Book Club of California, 1939. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 455cc. 50pp. Publisher's cloth backed marbled boards with an original page of 'The Spectator' tipped in. Bookplate on front pastedown, boards a bit darkened and rubbed with a spot of soiling to the top of the front, else very good.

San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California. Very Good+. 1939. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the plain paper wrapper (dust jacket). Limited to 455 unnumbered copies, printed for the The Book Club of California by the Grabhorn Press. Tipped in is an original page of The Spectator from Friday Dec. 21. 1711 (Num CCLIV) which starts off with a humorous letter to a happily married woman about how she should comport herself in the society of TOWN life. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is an ink stamped previous owner's name to both front and rear pastedown pages. The text pages are clean and bright. "But Addison and Steele were at least conscious that, all being well, they would make a good job of it, for when they launched The Spectator in 1711, they possessed invaluable and illuminating experience. They had scored an almost instantaneous success with The Tatler, which maintained its… Read More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1939 First edition. Limited to 455 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Folio. Pp. viii, 50. Tipped-in original leaf. Title-page vignette of Addison & Steele. Cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper spine label. A fine copy. This copy contains Number CCCLXV of The Spectator, for April 29, 1712. [Book Club: 56; Grabhorn: 312]..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1939. Together with the story of the famous English periodical and of its founders, Joseph Addison & Richard Steele, by Eric Partridge. Pp. [viii]+50, two linked medallion portraits on title page, the title and caption printed in red; f'cap. folio; qr. natural linen (slightly soiled), with printed paper title label on spine, marbled papered boards; fore-edges uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset; Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1939. Edition limited to 455 copies, printed by The Grabhorn Press. Hamel 82; Heller & Magee 312. *In this copy, the original leaf from The Spectator, which is tipped-in after the title page, is from issue Number CXXXIX, Thursday, August 9, 1711.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed by The Grabhorn Press], 1939. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 455 copies, folio size, 58 pp., with original leaf from "The Spectator" tipped in, with Ex-Libris of Alfred Sutro and postcard addressed to him written and signed by Eric Partridge. "The Spectator" was created in 1711 by Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Richard Steele (1672-1729); published daily for the first two years, it served to inform people of subjects like literature and philosophy and to encourage educated conversation. Supposedly it was intended especially for female audiences, to make available subjects and education that might not have been offered to them otherwise. This volume was printed by the estimable the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California, and includes a leaf from the March 9th, 1711, issue of "The Spectator"; this would have been a very early publication, and in fact is "Numb. VIII". Originally, one of the Club's members, M. S. Slocum, was… Read More