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San Francisco: Grabhorn Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. Cloth-backed decorative boards, spine label. Limited to 280 copies. Lower points worn/frayed, slight shelfwear to edges. Ffep toned, tiny spot to 2nd ffep verso. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 106 pages .

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946. Dean, Mallette. Small folio, cloth backed boards, usual offset to endpapers, fine copy , one of 280 printed by the Grabhorn Press. Cover design, initials and decorations by Mallette Dean.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1946. First Edition Thus, Limited to 280 copies. Hardcover. INSCRIBED on ffep 'For William from The Press/E. Grabhorn/Robert Grabhorn/Sherwood Grover another Santa/Cruz County Cracker/Mallette Dean'. Folio. vii, [1],105,[2]pp. Translated by Buckingham Smith; Introduction by George P. Hammond. Cover design, coat-of-arms on title page, forty-seven initials, and special printer's device, all in red, yellow, and black, designed and cut by Mallette Dean. Printed on hand-made paper from France, in Franciscan type set by Robert and Jane Grabhorn. Yellow decorated boards with white cloth spine; yellow paper title label printed in black and red. A Near Fine copy (slight splay). One of the Fifty Books of the Year. Originally printed in 1557. "One of our chief sources of information for the De Soto expedition was written by the Gentleman of Elvas, a soldier in the army... it is so detailed and so carefully done that it has come to be regarded as one of the most authentic… Read More

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1946. 1st. Hardcover. 1st edition thus. Limited Edition to 280 copies. Folio. 106pp. Translated by Buckingham Smith; Introduction by George P. Hammond. Cover design, coat-of-arms on title page, forty-seven initials, and special printer's device, all in red, yellow, and black, designed and cut by Mallette Dean. Printed on hand-made paper from France, in Franciscan type set by Robert and Jane Grabhorn. Yellow decorated boards with white cloth spine; yellow paper title label printed in black and red; publisher's plain dustjacket. Original sales slip laid in. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket (light fading to spine; minor wear to extremities; short closed tear to dustjacket). One of the Fifty Books of the Year. Originally printed in 1557. "One of our cheif sources of information for the De Soto expedition was written by the Gentleman of Elvas, a soldier in the army... it is so detailed and so carefully done that it has come to be regarded as on e of the most… Read More

San Francisco: Printed at The Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California, 1946. One of 280 set in Franciscan type, on handmade French paper. Folio, cloth-backed illustrated boards, paper spine label, uncut, [viii], 108 pp. 48 wood engravings designed and cut by Mallette Dean. Near-Fine, with slight warping of the boards.

[San Francisco]: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of Claifornia, [946]. 280 copies, signed by Ed, Mary& Robert Grabhorn. Malette Dean and Sherwood Grover. Initials and decorations designed and cut by Mallette Dean. [vii], 106, [2] pp. Printed on French handmade paper, set in Franciscan type. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in quarter white cloth and decorated orange paper boards, printed paper label on the backstrip. Fine in original salmon palin dj, chipped. 280 copies, signed by Ed, Mary& Robert Grabhorn. Malette Dean and Sherwood Grover. Initials and decorations designed and cut by Mallette Dean. [vii], 106, [2] pp. Printed on French handmade paper, set in Franciscan type. 1 vols. Folio. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, # 432Mill/5/2