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(Book Club of California) Crisler, Jesse S. (compiler) FRANK NORRIS COLLECTED LETTERS
San Francisco Book Club of California 1986 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, plain paper dust jacket 238, (2) pages
With a foreword by James D. Hart, an introduction, a list of recipients, 122 letters, 41 inscriptions, addenda, and a bibliography.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 101213

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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) Dillon, Richard H. (introduction) ARTFUL DEEDS
in the Life of the Felon, Grovenor Layton...A Tale of the California Gold Rush San Francisco Book Club of California 1998 small 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards,slip case (iv), 71+(1) pages
Limited to an edition of 350, printed by Peter Koch using Minon for the text with Scala & Quadrant italic for display. Artful Deeds is a hoax, a bogus biography.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 93469

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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) EARLY CALIFORNIA TRADE CARDS.
San Francisco Book Club of California 1966 small 4to. individual folders of four pages each loosely inserted in slipcase with leather spine labels.
Edited by Margot Patterson Doss and John A. Hussey. Printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem for the Club. With a full color reproduction of a trade card in each four page folder. Complete set of nine folders.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 94385

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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) 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) Goff, Harry R. INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco Book Club of California (1973) 8½ x 10 inches. 12 4-page folders, mailing envelope.
Printed in an edition limited to 1050 copies. (Olmsted p.57.) A complete set of the 27th annual keepsake series issued by the Book Club of California. Each folder features a photograph or engraving with historical/anthropological essays by authorities. The editor, was assisted by Michael Harrison and Lawrence E. Dawson of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology; the illustrations help to preserve vanishing Native American culture. Printed at the Greenwood Press. Outer envelope is wrinkled.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 49150

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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) Hart, James D. (editor) MY FIRST PUBLICATION.
(San Francisco) Book Club of California 1961 8vo. quarter cloth with illustrated paper-covered boards, paper spine label (viii), 106, (2) pages
First edition, limited to 475 copies and printed by Adrian Wilson at his Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco. (Wilson 84). The types are Monotype Bulmer and Deberny & Peignot's Cristal composed by Mackenzie & Harris. Eleven California authors describe their earliest appearances in print, including Mark Twain, Joaquin Miller, Gertrude Atherton, Gelett Burgess, Mary Austin, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Irwin and Jack London. Introductions by the editor, with portrait drawings by David Stone Martin, and tipped in facsimiles of representative pages from the original publications of each writer, all on variously colored Strathmore paper. The author's own text follows in white. Included in the Rounce & Coffin Club's Exhibition of Western Books (Harlan, no.108). Ink stain at bottom of spine.
Price: $ 37.50 other currencies Order nr. 62748

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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) Johnson, Kenneth M. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR: PHYSICIAN, LAWYER, POET, AND POLITICIAN.
San Francisco, CA Book Club of California 1968 small 8vo. cloth (vii), v, 61, (3) pages.
Published in limited edition of 400 copies. (Harlan no. 129). Biography of the first president of the Book Club of California. His two sons (Edward and Henry) would later operate Taylor & Taylor, the distinguised San Francisco printing firm that produced several of the Club's books. Four pages of reproductions, including two photographs. One broadside. Included in the Exhibition of Western Books (Rounce & Coffin Club). Introduction by the author.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 76059

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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) Land, Barbara Jane TREASURES OF THE BOOK CLUB LIBRARY OF CALIFORNIA
Mountain View The Artichoke Press 2000 small 4to. leaflets contained within a paper portfolio not paginated
Highlights twelve treasures of the Book Club in individually printed leaflets. Each section is comprised of a single folio folded into two leaves. Introduction by Gary F. Kurutz, the Chairman of the Publications Committee. Each of the following eleven leaflets discusses a single object contained within the collection. The collection presented here spans the work of four centuries, beginning with a work printed in 1559 possibly by Christopher Plantin and ending with the Historie of Don Quixote, printed in 1927-1928. Printed in red, off-white and black.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 79236

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(Book Club of California) Land, Barbara Jane TREASURES OF THE BOOK CLUB LIBRARY OF CALIFORNIA. PART THREE.
Mountain View The Artichoke Press 2004 small 4to. leaflets contained within a paper portfolio not paginated
Highlights twelve treasures of the Book Club in individually printed leaflets. Each section is comprised of a single folio folded into two leaves. Introduction by Barbara Jane Land. Each of the following eleven leaflets discusses a single object contained within the collection. Illustrations in color. Folder bumped at tips with wear at bottom of spine of folder.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 93420

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(Book Club of California) Land, Barbara J. (editor) TWELVE TREASURES FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA.
(San Francisco) Book Club of California 1997 large 8vo. card stock folders inserted in a porftolio unpaginated, but (52) pages
Issued as the 1997 Keepsake for the members of The Book Club of California. Designed by James Wehlage and printed letterpress in Trajan and Palatino at the Tuscan Press, Novato CA. A selection of 12 unusual and interesting items from the Club's library. Comments on each item's uniqueness in the history of printing augment the descriptions. Each folder is illustrated, including a tipped-in color photograph of the Book Club's room and library.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 74651

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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. CALIFORNIA'S WAYSIDE INNS, RELICS OF STAGECOACH DAYS.
San Francisco Book Club of California 1988 approx. 8½ x 10 inches. self paper wrappers 13 4-page folders.
A keepsake series from the Book Club of California, describing the old wayside inns of the days before railroads and automobiles. Each folder features a contemporary illustration of one of the inns. Printed at the Hillside Press.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 49148

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