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(Bookbinding) FINE HAND BOOKBINDINGS FOR BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS
San Francisco The Book Club of California 2001 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 32 pages
Keepsake for an exhibition of fine hand bookbinding at The Book Club of California, featuring the work of 18 bookbinders.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 104849

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(Book Club of California) THE BICENTENNIAL OF LITHOGRAPHY.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1999 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 95+(1) pages.
A keepsake for the members of the Book Club of California, published to commemorate the birth of lithography two hundred years before. Michael Twyman, J. Curtiss Taylor, Gary F. Kurutz and George K. Fox all contribute articles to the keepsake, which cover the history, trade cards of early British Lithographers, prints of George Henry Goddard and more. Illustrated. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 60618

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(Book Club of California) THE BICENTENNIAL OF LITHOGRAPHY.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1999 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 95+(1) pages.
A keepsake for the members of the Book Club of California, published to commemorate the birth of lithography two hundred years before. Michael Twyman, J. Curtiss Taylor, Gary F. Kurutz and George K. Fox all contribute articles to the keepsake, which cover the history, trade cards of early British Lithographers, prints of George Henry Goddard and more. Illustrated.
Price: $ 12.50 other currencies Order nr. 103076

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(Book Club of California) THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA AUCTION CATALOGUE. NUMBER ONE.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1964 small 4to. stapled stiff paper wrappers. 18 pages.
100 lots sold to raise money for the Club. Includes many books about books and private press books.
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 69350

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(Book Club of California) CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH CAMPS.
N.P. The Book Club of California 1998 small 4to. stiff paper portfolio, original mailing envelope. 14 loose signatures.
A 1998 keepsake which consists of fourteen loose signatures prepared for members of The Book Club of California. It was edited by Robert J. Chandler and designed and printed by Patrick Reagh Printers, Inc. The illustrations and verse for each folder cover are reproduced from the letter sheet, "Life Among the Miners," by Hutchings & Rosenfield in San Francisco.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 60881

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(Book Club of California) CATHAY IN ELDORADO THE CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.
With an Introduction by Oscar Lewis. San Francisco The Book Club of California 1972 small 4to. 12 individual folders loosely inserted in mailing envelope.
Introduction and 11 folders, each written by a different person and containing a reproduction. Keepsake Series for 1972. Some soiling. Mailing envelope worn.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 710

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(Book Club of California) Chandler, Robert J. (editor) PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIPS.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 2011 4to. stiff paper wrappers 47+(1) pages
Keepsake designed for members of the Book Club of California. Descriptions, with color illustrations, of steamships of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Table of contents, introductory essay by the editor, list of contributors.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 115929

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(Book Club of California) Dailey, Victoria A LADIES' DOZEN AND A GENTLEMAN, EARLY CALIFRONIA CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1853-1913.
(San Francisco, CA The Book Club of California 2009) 4to. paper portfolio with 4 page history and 14 broadsides inserte.
The annual keepsake produced by the Club.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 106084

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(Book Club of California) Dillon, Richard H. AL SHUMATE, BOOKMAN 1904-1998.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1999 8vo. paper wrappers. 14, (2) pages.
Limited to 1,100 copies. A tribute to Al Shumate physician, civic leader, and bookman/historian. He was a collector of books on the West and a writer of books of California and Western Americana. Illustrated.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 56895

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(Book Club of California) EARLY CALIFORNIA STOCK CERTIFICATES
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1978 small 4to. ten 4 page folders enclosed in publisher's protective slipcase with leather spine label
Limited to 1200 copies and designed and printed at the Feathered Serpent Press. Keepsake no.41 printed by the club.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 76001

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(Book Club of California) Fleming, Donald R. (Editor) MOUNTAIN PASSES AND TRAILS OF CALIFORNIA
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1979 small 4to. 12 pamphlets enclosed in publisher's protective slipcase with leather spine label
Limited to 1500 copies. Keepsake Series 42 issued by this club. Printed by Lawton Kennedy.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 18040

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(Book Club of California) Franklin, Colin THEMES IN AQUATINT
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1978 folio half red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, plain paper dust jacket viii, 104 pages.
First edition, limited to 500 copies. Printed at Cambridge University Press with color plates printed at the Curwen Press. Designed by John Dreyfus. A history of this form of book illustration and including 16 full color plates. "a handsomely illustrated study of the aquatint by an authority on the subject" - 200th Book of the Book Club of California no.160. Prospectus loosely inserted. Plain paper jacket is chipped along edges.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 3860

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(Book Club of California) Genini, Ronald & Richard Hitchman.'s ROMUALDO PACHECO: A CALIFORNIO IN TWO ERAS
San Francisco, CA The Book Club of California 1985 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, plain paper dusk jacket. xiv. 212 pages.
Published in a Limited Edition of 500 copies for the Book Club of California. (Harlan no. 179). Biographical account of California's first and only Hispanic governor, the first Hispanic elected to the United States Congress, and the first to be named a diplomat. Pacheco is often called, "the most successful Spanish-speaking native son of California." The text makes use of new information on his life from unpublished collections and newspapers. Eight photographic reproductions. Ehrhardt type on machine made paper. printed by Patrick Reagh.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 76091

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(Book Club of California) Gilliam, Franklin (editor) SOME UNUSUAL CALIFORNIA MAGAZINES
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1975 folder containing a facsimile of a Gelett Burgess magazine a 8 page pamphlet, and a single sheet enclosed in publisher's protective slipcase with leather spine label
Limited to 1200 copies printed by the Kennedy's. Keepsake no.39.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 76003

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(Book Club of California) GOLD RUSH STEAMERS.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1958 4to. 12 four page folders loosely inserted in mailing envelope.
Each folder describes a different steamer and contains a tipped-in plate showing the steamer. Outer envelope torn.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 57872

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(Book Club of California) Harlan, Robert D. TWO HUNDREDTH BOOK, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BOOKS PUBLISHED BY THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA, 1958-1993.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1993 small folio quarter cloth with decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label. xii, 62 pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Printed by Mastercraft Press and bound by Cardoza-James. This bibliography continues the earlier bibliography which listed the first 100 titles published by this club of book collectors. With plates showing reproductions of some of the earlier titles, often done in color.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 39636

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(Book Club of California) Harlan, Robert D. WILLIAM DOXEY'S SAN FRANCISCO PUBLISHING VENTURE, AT THE SIGN OF THE LARK
With an Annotated Bibliography San Francisco The Book Club of California 1983 8vo. cloth. 84, (4) pages.
First edition, limited to 550 copies. Designed and printed by Harold Berliner. With a well-annotated 57-item bibliography of Doxey's publications. Illustrated. With errata slip.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 24732

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(Book Club of California) HISTORICAL MINING CERTIFICATES.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1971 ten small 4to. folders of four pages each.
Complete set of the Keepsake issued for 1971. Each four page folder has a tipped-in facsimile of a mining certificate and text on the mining company. Edited by Albert Shumate and designed and printed by the Ward Ritchie Press.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 29360

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(Book Club of California) Hull, David (editor) UP THE RIVER: STEAM NAVIGATION ABOVE CARQUINEZ STRAIT
San Francisco The Book Club of California 2003 oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrapper 58, (2) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 1000 copies. Typical of the Book Club of California, the volume consists of twelve essays. These focus on the development of industry with the introduction of steamboats into California. Well-illustrated with black-and-white plates and five color plates. Blue initial letters. Title page and cover printed in blue.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 79261

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(Book Club of California) Kostura, William. WILLIAM F. LEWIS, A SAN FRANCISCO HOUSE BUILDER.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1993 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 60, (3) pages.
A story about how houses were built in San Francisco in the 1880's and 1890's. William F. Lewis was one of the hundreds of contractors who built and designed Victorian houses, which failed as did many other builders. Illustrated with photographs of some of the houses designed at that time and the Lewis family.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 57225

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(Book Club of California) Kurutz, Gary F. BENJAMIN C. TRUMAN, CALIFORNIA BOOSTER AND BON VIVANT.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1984 8vo. cloth, plain paper dust jacket. Frontispiece; (ii), vi, 3-89+(1).
Limited to 600 copies (Book Club of California Publication no.176). The image of California as the everyman's paradise of health and the good life owes something to the efforts of B.C. Truman (1835-1916), an ex-Civil War journalist and confidential secretary of Andrew Johnson, who discovered southern California in the late 1860's and spent the rest of his life promoting it in books, articles, and other promotional efforts. This biography by G.F. Kurutz emphasizes Truman's publishing and publicity activities and provides a checklist of some of his writings.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 51596

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(Book Club of California) Levinsohn, John L. FRANK MORRISON PIXLEY OF THE ARGONAUT.
San Francisco, CA The Book Club of California 1989 small 8vo. cloth, plain paper dust jacket. 84 pages.
Printed in a limited edition of 450 copies by the Feather Serpent Press (Susan Acker) for the Book Club of California. (Harlan no. 190). Study of The Argonaut founder and chief editor. As owner and editor of the newspaper, Pixley exerted substantial influence on San Francisco's literary scene at the turn of the century, and his commentaries reflect many of the beliefs of his era. Staff members included American author Ambrose Bierce, and Pixley was among the first to publish Gertrude Atherton. Illustrations throughout taken from the Argonaut and other contemporary sources. Eight plates throughout the text.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 76088

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(Book Club of California) Lewis, Oscar1 ORIGIN OF THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1931 tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards. (iv), 27, (17) pages plus a tipped-in facsimile of the Sonora, California Herald of June 11, 1853.
First edition, limited to 250 copies. (Heller & Magee 151; Angelo bib. p.50). With line drawings and five line pictorial initials by Valenti Angelo. Many versions of this famous Mark Twain story. Light wear along edges.
Price: $ 135.00 other currencies Order nr. 21206

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(Book Club of California) Lewis, Oscar. THE FIRST 75 YEARS, THE STORY OF THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA 1912-1987.
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1987 slim 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, gilt decorated front and back covers, gilt lettering on spine, later marbled paper covered slipcase. (vi), 54, (2) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 1200 copies, designed and printed at the Arion Press. A history of the organization, with a list of officers and checklist of the 185 books published from l914 to 1987. Illustrated with photographs and examples of menus, announcements, postcards, etc. produced by various clubmembers.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 44725

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(Book Club of California) LITHOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF CALIFORNIA TOWNS, 1875-1889
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1985 4to. 10 4 page pamphlets, mailing envelope.
Printed by David Holman at the Wind River Press.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 18194

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