Cosmic Jest by Clarence Budington Kelland (6 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID,BRIGHT.GOLD TITLES ON PAPER LABEL ALL ON WHITE CLOTH SPINE STRIP & GOLD OLW ON LARGE VACE hard cover art. very nice copy. ; 54pg pages; .annual play of the Bohemian Club as presented by its members in the Bohemian Grove on Friday Evening, .Play dedicated to Herbert Hoover (Club Member).; setting is "An interstellar space wehre the Ancient Gods were wont to meet for counsel and refreshment".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. One of 1100 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Signed by the author and five other members of the Bohemian Club on front free endpaper. Original publisher's blue paper-covered boards backed with light beige cloth. Blue paper label with gilt lettering on spine. Front and back covers each show an illustration of a gilt owl pictured on a vase. 6 1/4" x 9." Fifty-three pages, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning. Covers are very clean and intact except for a few small dampstains at top edges on front and back, moderate browning on front and back, slight browning along spine, light rubbing, and slight wear to extremities. This is the 44th Grove Play of the Bohemian Club that was originally performed on July 30, 1949 at Bohemian Grove, Sonoma County, California. The players or cast of characters are a Miner, Hermes, Chronos, Pan, Orpheus, Herald, Page, Mars, Mumbo-Jumbo, and a Greek Gladiator. The setting is described as an ancient time in "interstellar space.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Music by Frank R. Denke. Small 4to. Tan cloth spine with paper label and decorated green paper over boards, plain paper wrapper. 54pp. Fine/very good. Some age toning to flyleaves from dust jacket. First edition, beautifully printed by the Grabhorn Press. Composer Denke inscribes the front flyleaf "to dear Father Johnson / in gratitude for the / prayers you have offered / to help me realize the / completion of this." A fine presentation copy.

Boards. Condition: Good. Cloth-backed decorative paper over boards, tall 8vo, 53 pp. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. Signed on title page by Budington and Denke, and by Marsden Argall, one of the players, under the list of Players. Spine, edges of covers and page edges smoke-darkened, corners of boards bumped, offsetting at front and rear endpapers, previous owner name.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 1949. **SIGNED** by 27 (ANNUAL PLAY OF THE BOHEMIAN CLUB AS PRESENTED BY ITS MEMEBERS IN THE BOHEMIAN GROVE Includes separate program dated Saturday, July 23, 1949 Tan cloth spine with paper label and decorated green paper over boards, plain paper wrapper. Some age toning to flyleaves from laid in program. Printed by the Grabhorn Press. Signed by Author(s).

First edition of this Bohemian Club Grove play. Octavo, original half cloth with pictorial boards, printed with music by Frank R. Denke. Boldly signed by Herbert Hoover and the author, Clarence Budington Kelland, on the dedication page. Additionally signed by another member of the Bohemian Club. In very good condition with light rubbing and toning. Founded in 1872 from a regular meeting of journalists, artists, and musicians, The Bohemian Club soon developed into a private men's-only club, offering wider membership to businessmen, entrepreneurs, university presidents, and military commanders. Every year, the club hosts a two-week-long camp retreat at Bohemian Grove, which is notable for its illustrious guest list and its eclectic Cremation of Care ceremony which mockingly burns an effigy of "Care" (the normal woes of life) with grand pageantry, pyrotechnics, and brilliant costumes, all done at the edge of a lake and at the base of a forty-foot concrete owl statue. The Grove Play is an annual theatrical production written, produced and performed by and for Bohemian Club members, and staged outdoors in California at the Bohemian Grove each summer.