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GRABHORN PRESS Grabhorn Series of Rare Americana. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1932-1937. 20 vols. (Complete) Various sizes, cloth, most in dust jackets. In reprinting these works, it was the Grabhorns’ aim to make scarce and significant texts on the American experience available at a reasonable cost. Several with prospectuses laid in. Fine. Very rare as a complete set. $2,000-4,000 59
JOHNSON, ANDREW Document signed, 1p., vellum, 20 June 1866. Appointing Charles H. Roys as Major. Signed as President. Countersigned by Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton. 19 1/2 x 16 inches. $300-500 60
LAKESIDE CLASSICS A set of 55 volumes. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife, Dale Morgan, Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. et al. Each with illustrations, including maps (many folding). Chicago: R.R. Donnelly and Sons/The Lakeside Press, 19282004. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, gilt titles to spines, top edges gilt, some in original plastic wrapping. First editions, first printings. Considered the longest running series of Americana, these books have never been sold in the primary market, as they were given by the publisher to employees of the Lakeside Press as Christmas presents. Every 25 years the color of the binding was changed: red (1928-1952), brown (1978-2002), sea green (2003-present). The present set contains the complete collections of two generations of Lakeside Press employees, with 25 red titles (28 volumes) and 25 brown titles, with the latter in mint unwrapped condition. It also contains two unwrapped sea green titles. Brown and green titles in mint condition; edgewear and fading to red volumes with pencil inscriptions to spine; some fading to gilt on red titles; otherwise a very fine set. $800-1,200 61*
(LAND GRANT, INDIANA) A group of four land grants for property in Indiana signed for Presidents James Buchanan (3) and Andrew Jackson (1) by their secretaries. Each 9 1/2 x 16 inches. Property from the Estates of Will H. Hays, Sullivan, Indiana, and Will H. Hays Jr., Crawfordsville, Indiana $150-250 17
