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San Francisco, CA: Colt Press. Very Good+. 1941. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Limited to 550 unnumbered copies. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing, especially the corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (LeRoy V. Brant) on the front pastedown page. The rear pastedown page has a very small inked number. "Grabhorn founded the Colt Press (1938–1942) in San Francisco with William M. Roth and Jane Swinerton. The press focused primarily on subjects related to California. Notable publications include their first, Lola Montez: The Mid-Victorian Bad Girl in California, by Oscar Lewis (1938) ; Kamehameha, King of the Hawaiian Islands, by Marie Louise Burke (1939) , which was chosen as one of the fifty "Books of the Year" by the American Institute of Graphic Arts; and McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank… Read More

No Place: The Colt Press, 1941. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. 46 pp., illus. One fold-out which is a tipped-in facsimile of The Wasp". One of 550 copies issued by the Colt Press by William Roth and Jane Grabhorn. Boards are rubbed and faded along the edges.

San Francisco. : The Colt Press., 1941.. First edition. . Decorated hard cover. . Fine copy. . 4to.. Important reference work. "The Wasp" sheet tipped-in. Limited edition of 500 copies.

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. [4], 45, [1] p., 1 folded facsimile of The Wasp; 25 cm. Red cloth spine with printed paper spine label. Patterned blue paper over boards. One of a limited edition of 550 copies isued from the Colt Press by William Roth and Jane Grabhorn in Feb. 1941. Printed in red and black with portrait of Ambrose Bierce on title page. Engraved bookplate of George Reed Salisbury on front fixed endpaper. In Very Good Condition: sunned along fore-edges of boards; slightly rubbed; spine label is intact; internally clean and crisp.

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941. One of 550 copies. Facsimile of The Wasp bound in. Printed in red and black. Sq. 8vo., original cream cloth backed patterned paper covered boards, printed paper spine label. Some damage to small area of upper cover, otherwise good. ||An overview of Ambrose Bierce’s journalistic experiences in San Francisco including one of his book reviews - “The covers of this book are too far apart”.|