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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Illustrated with woodcut decorations by Mallette Dean. Quarto. Quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards. Publisher's prospectus laid in. A fine copy, beautifully printed and decorated. One of 350 copies.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine. With laid in prospectus and order form with envelope from the Book Club of California. Club president Carl Wheat urges members to place their order promptly for "a truly beautiful book, enhanced by five woodcuts in two and three colors. Hand set in French Elzevir type on fine paper, 11 x 18, and suitably bound...". Quarter cloth with decorated paper boards, paper label clean and intact. 11.5 x 8.5

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956.. Cloth and decorated boards. Bookplate, else near fine in plain wrapper. First edition. One of 350 copies printed and decorated by Mallette Dean. BROOMFIELD A41.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956. First edition. Fine in the original unprinted brown dust jacket, sunned. 4to, cloth-backed decorative boards. One of 350 copies printed and with decorative woodcuts by Mallette Dean. A handsome publication.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956. First edition, one of 350 copies. Woodcut illustrations in several colors by Mallette Dean. ix, [1, blank], 49 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Cloth and boards. Fine, small blind stamp library stamp on title page and front free endpaper. First edition, one of 350 copies. Woodcut illustrations in several colors by Mallette Dean. ix, [1, blank], 49 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Magee, The Hundredth Book, 93

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed and decorated with woodcuts by Mallette Dean, 1956. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Dean, Mallette. One of 350 copies, quarto size, 58 pp., with prospectus. The only published prose work by Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962), with a preface by Professor B. H. Lehman, who had also introduced the Book Club of California's earlier, 1928 work of Jeffers, entitled simply "Poems", this volume is the transcript of a lecture Jeffers gave at the Library of Congress in 1941; it was one of the few times Jeffers could be persuaded to read and talk about his poetry, and the lecture demonstrates the force and depth behind one of California's finest poets. Mallette Dean (1907-1975), in addition to printing the book, illustrates the book with his stunning woodcuts; a printer and muralist, Dean was one of twenty-six artists commissioned to paint murals in San Francisco's Coit Tower, and he illustrated books for the Grabhorn Press for fifteen years. This… Read More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956 One of 350 copies, printed by Mallette Dean. Quarter light brown linen over green decorative boards, printed green paper spine label. Quarto. Woodcut illustrations in several colors by Mallette Dean. Top corners lighty rubbed. Near fine. This is the based upon a lecture delivered by Jeffers at the Library of Congress, Harvard and elsewhere in 1941. It is a rare discussion by Jeffers of his method of working.