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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.
by THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA
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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- Hardcover
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.
- Bookseller Time Booksellers (AU)
- Book Condition Used
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher 1940's series.
- Keywords Pacific Adventures California England Captain Cheap voyage maritime history Columbia Captain Jennings expedition Centurion discovery