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Sign on an auto repair shop (Oak and Fell streets), Hayes Valley. Photo: Andrea V. Grimes

Street numbers for an auto repair shop in the Richmond District. Photo: Andrea V. Grimes

The McRoskey Mattress Company built this showroom and factory in 1925. Although the factory has moved to Potrero Hill the showroom continues to occupy this Market Street address (soon to be designated an historical landmark). On the border of Civic Center and Hayes Valley. Photo: Andrea V. Grimes

Henry Miller
The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1955

Colophon: 500 copies printed at the Greenwood Press of San Francisco. Typography by Jack Werner Stauffacher, illustrated by Gordon Cook. Set in Van Dijck type. 35 special copies printed on French Rives Paper.

Persian Stories from the Arabian Nights
Translated into English by Sir RIchard F. Burton
Pen & ink drawings by Michele Forgeois
Greenbrae, CA: Allen Press, 1980

Colophon: This book is one of an edition limited to one hundred forty copies. The typefaces are: for the text, Arrighi, a legible sixteenth-century Chancery cursive, set by Monotype, then re-set by hand; for this Colophon and Introduction, Romanee cursive set by hand. The all-rag paper was handmade and watermarked especially for The Allen Press at St. Cuthberts Mill in England, and printed damp on a Columbian handpress made in 1846. The green all-rap cover-paper is from the noted Montgolfier Canson Mill in France. The musical trumpet decoration from the Persian "Book of Kings," tenth century [on title page]. Arabic calligraphy, separating text page columns, is from the opening pages of the sacred Koran. Introduction by Francis Carmody, Ph.D. Hand-printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen.

The Allen Press Bibliography, number 45.