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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1986 Book. Very Good +. Soft cover. 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..
Pacific Adventures. by THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA: Four Parts:The Description Of California And Its Inhabitants Pacific Adventures Number Two. The Wreck Of The Wager Pacific Adventures Number Three. The Sack O Monterey Pacific Adventures Number Four. The Manilla Galleons Pacific Adventures Number Five.
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Pacific Adventures.: Four Parts:The Description Of California And Its Inhabitants Pacific Adventures Number Two. The Wreck Of The Wager Pacific Adventures Number Three. The Sack O Monterey Pacific Adventures Number Four. The Manilla Galleons Pacific Adventures Number Five.
by THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA
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1940's series.. Limited Editions; Number Two; 8vo; pp. 14; b/w frontispiece; stiff illustrated stapled wrapper, light wear around wrapper edges, uncut pages, otherwise a fine copy. Number Three; 8vo; pp. 10; stiff illustrated sown wrapper, wrapper lightly worn around edges and marked on rear wrapper, otherwise a fine copy. Number Four; 8vo; pp. 12; stiff sown wrapper, verso title page lightly browned, uncut pages, otherwise a fine copy. Number Five; 8vo; pp. 16; stiff illustrated sown wrapper, uncut, a fine copy. All in its original quarter leather slip case and folder. Each Limited to 650 copies. Each designed and printed by a different Californian Printer. In order Grabhorn Press, San Francisco. Windsor Press, San Francisco. Schwabacher-Frey Company, San Francisco. The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles.
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Sports in California
by The Book Club of California; Gary F. Kurutz
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Seventy Years: A Checklist of Book Club Publications 1914-1983.
by THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA. OLMSTED, Duncan
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Rochester, New York, United States
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San Francisco:: The Book Club of California,, 1984.. original printed wrappers.. Bookplate; otherwise fine.. 8vo,.
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Homes of California Authors
by The Book Club of California
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Novato, California, United States
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The Book Club of California, 1967-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Each of the 12 parts is a four page folder with a full page illustration and a page of tex, all like newt, together in a paper portfolio, all placed in a hardcover slipcase. Leather paste on label of title on spine as well as separate label for publisher.
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Fine Hand Bookbindings for Book Club of California Publications.
by The Book Club of California
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San Diego, California, United States
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CALIFORNIA BOOK CO, January 2001. Trade Paperback . Used - fine. A square, tight, and unmarked copy.
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Bonanza Banquets #11, Programme and Bill of Fare for the Midway Plaisance Cafe and Vaudeville Theatre Week of July 3, 1899, Commentary By Henry Perry
by The Book Club of California
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Alameda, California, United States
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The Book Club of California, 1950. Wraps. Very Good to Near Fine condition. Facsimile Menu included.
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Bonanza Banquets #10, Free Lunch and Commercial Lunch Menus of the Palace of Art San Francisco Commentary By Francis Lewis Gould
by The Book Club of California
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Alameda, California, United States
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The Book Club of California, 1950. Wraps. Very Good to Near Fine condition. Facsimile menu from the Palace of Art included.
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Chinese Book Arts and California
by The Book Club of California
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La Mesa, California, United States
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The Book Club Of California. A beautiful clean crisp boxed set of 12 keepsake folders in fine condition. Includes quarter leather slipcase in fine condition. PLEASE NOTE: OVERSIZED ITEM, NO INTERNATIONAL ORDERS ON AMAZON. . Fine. Hardcover. 1987.
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Early Theaters of California
by The Book Club of California
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Saginaw, Michigan, United States
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1974 eleven unbound loose folded sheets in cardboard folder & sturdy slipcase/minor wear/clean & unmarked. Stark, S. Introduction.--no. 1. Lewis, L. S., Mrs. Nevada Theatre, Nevada City.--no. 2. Sarlos, R. K. Woodland Opera House, Woodland.--no. 3. Taylor, J. W., Mrs. Eagle Theatre, Sacramento.--no. 4. Spelvin, G. Stockton Theatre, Stockton.--no. 5. Wood, R. C. Fallon House, Columbia.--no. 6. Shumate, A. American Theatre, San Francisco.--no. 7. Dillon, R. Maguire's Opera House, San Francisco.--no. 8. Lewis, O. Grand Opera House, San Francisco.--no. 9. Stark, S. First theatre, Monterey.--no. 10. Hager, A. M. Merced Theatre, Los Angeles.
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California and the Civil War. 1992 Keepsake Series.
by THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA
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Rochester, New York, United States
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San Francisco:: The Book Club of California,, 1992.. Fine.. 12 parts contained in the publisher's printed portfolio.
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Historical Mining Certificates
by The Book Club of California
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La Mesa, California, United States
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The Book Club of California. A beautiful clean crisp 10 folder boxed set in near fine condition. Includes quarter leather slipcase in near fine condition. PLEASE NOTE:OVERSIZED ITEM, NO INTERNATIONAL ORDERS ON AMAZON. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1971.
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