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Published by The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1986
Seller: UHR Books, Hollis Center, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Very nice copy of this set of 12 portfolio sheets depicting the history of sports in California; illustrated with drawings. The portfolios are I. Introduction; II. The Birth of Ski Racing in the California Gold Rush; III. Early California Baseball; IV. Boxing - The Benicia Boy; V. Football, The Big Game; VI. Tug-of-War Context 1894 San Francisco; VII. Ben Hur Revisited - Chariot Races at the Tournament of Roses 1904-1915; VIII. The Ethereal Sport of Ballooning; IX. The Jumping Frog Contest; X. Bull Versus Bear - Sport and Diversion in Early Nineteenth Century California; XI. Polo in Southern California; and XII. Wild Cheers Broke Loose - The Great Los Angeles-Phoenix Road Race, 1908-1914. Book.
Published by Book Club of California, San Francisco, 2005
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Book Club of California (illustrator). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper label on front, clear dust jacket. xxx, 114, (6) pages. The Stagecoach Stories of Major Benjamin C. Truman. Limited to an edition of 350, this is publication number 219 of the Book Club of California. A fine copy. Designed and printed by the Castle Press. Typefaces used are Perpetua Titling and Centaur on Natural Finch Vanilla Vellum paper. A seasoned traveler and journalist, Truman was particularly captivated by these rugged driver and produced vivid word pictures over the course of half a century. Illustrated. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper label on front, clear dust jacket.
Published by San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California., 1986
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. 4to. Oblong. [48 pp.] Letterpress On Wove, Black & Brown Ink Titles, Each Keepsake A Loose, Folded Sheet, 12 in this Complete Set, Very Good. Illustrations, Photographs. Designed by Don Gray and Wesley B. Tanner at the Twowindows Press, and Printed by Tanner and Gray at the Arif Press (both in Berkeley, CA). The type was set by Mackenzie-Harris Corp. of San Francisco. Litho by Phelps/Schaefer, Brisbane. Book Club of California Keepsakes.
Published by San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California., 1986
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Condition: Good. 4to. Oblong. [48 pp.] Letterpress On Wove, Black & Brown Ink Titles, Each Keepsake A Loose, Folded Sheet, 12 in this Complete Set, Very Good. Illustrations, Photographs. Designed by Don Gray and Wesley B. Tanner at the Twowindows Press, and Printed by Tanner and Gray at the Arif Press (both in Berkeley, CA). The type was set by Mackenzie-Harris Corp. of San Francisco. Litho by Phelps/Schaefer, Brisbane. Book Club of California Keepsakes.
Published by Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1997
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Book Club of California (illustrator). large 8to. blue cloth with title on spine and gold design on front cover, plain paper dust jacket. xxvii, 771 pages, with 33 additional pages of plates. Limited to 1,000 unnumbered copies. A descriptive bibliography of publications in book or pamphlet form of a) accounts by eyewitnesses of the Gold Rush in the years 1848-1853, for example, diaries (actual date of publication irrelevant), and b) "contemporary" publications from America and Europe relevant to the Gold Rush (for example, a set of charts and sailing directions for the California Coast by a U.S. Navy commander, published in 1851) and generally but not always published in the years 1848-1853 (for example, an 1854 work about something that happend in 1853). Contains many published diaries and journals, guidebooks, mining company reports, etc. etc. 706 main entries, some with extensive subdivisions. A typical entry gives the title as laid out on the title page, other basic bibliographic data, the collation, the type of binding, number and type of illustrations, references, locations of copies of the item, and the author's notes and comments. With a list of location symbols, references, and an index. With prospectus and related material in separate envelope. Fine condition. blue cloth with title on spine and gold design on front cover, plain paper dust jacket.