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San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1933. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Inscribed by Sutro! Limited edition, this one of 125 copies, 1933, hardcover with mock vellum spine and blue paper boards in original plain paper dust jacket, octavo, 25pp., not illustrated. Book VG with soil and toning to boards, small hole in paper on front board, mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, endpapers off-set and foxed, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ good with toning, soil and rubbing, edgewear that includes tears and small chips to spine ends and corners, foxing, now in archival mylar wrap.

San Francisco: Privately Printed [by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn], 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 125 copies, octavo size, 28 pp., inscribed by Oscar Sutro. This edition, privately printed for prominant San Franciscan and member of the SF Roxburghe Club 1933-1935 Oscar Sutro (1874-1935), contains an address regarding William Shakespeare, who "of all men understands the English language" (n.b., quote from p. 1). Printed by the Grabhorn Press, one of the most highly renowned private presses in America in the twentieth century, run by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter cream parchment spine with blue paper boards, gilt lettering on the spine, title page illustration and tailpiece reproduced from an early edition of Shakespeare; Poliphilus handset type on Unbleached Arnold paper, octavo size (9 3/8" by 6 3/8"), pagination: [i-ii] 1-26, one of 125 copies, unnumbered, privately printed for Oscar Sutro, with his inscription in the year and month of publication on… Read More