Grabhorn Press.- Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass..., one of 400 copies, woodcut by Valenti Angelo, New York, printed by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco for Random House, 1930.
Grabhorn Press.- Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass..., number 140 of 400 copies, printed in red and black by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, woodcut illustrations by Valenti Angelo, leather book-label of Haven O'More, original morocco-backed wooden boards, by Hazel Dreis, publisher's device cut into lower outer corner of upper cover, uncut, spine slightly rubbed and marked but a very handsome copy, [Heller & Magee 138], folio, New York, printed by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco for Random House, 1930.
⁂ The greatest work produced by the press. "One of the Fifty Books of the Year. The largest undertaking of the Grabhorn Press to date. It took over a year to print...the tremendous impression necessary to print this book so strained the press that the printers suggested the colophon should read: '400 copies printed and the press destroyed'.".
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Grabhorn Press.- Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass..., number 140 of 400 copies, printed in red and black by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, woodcut illustrations by Valenti Angelo, leather book-label of Haven O'More, original morocco-backed wooden boards, by Hazel Dreis, publisher's device cut into lower outer corner of upper cover, uncut, spine slightly rubbed and marked but a very handsome copy, [Heller & Magee 138], folio, New York, printed by the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco for Random House, 1930.
⁂ The greatest work produced by the press. "One of the Fifty Books of the Year. The largest undertaking of the Grabhorn Press to date. It took over a year to print...the tremendous impression necessary to print this book so strained the press that the printers suggested the colophon should read: '400 copies printed and the press destroyed'.".