[Book Club of California]. A group of 5 leaf books, including:

PATTISON, Mark. The Estiennes...Illustrated with Original Leaves from Books Printed by the Three Greatest Members of that Distinguished Family. SF, 1949. ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, from a total edition of 390. -- MUSCATINE, Charles. The Book of Geoffrey Chaucer. SF, 1963. With an original leaf from the 1561 edition of Chaucer's Works. ONE OF 450 COPIES. Prospectus laid in. -- HALL, Basil. The Great Polyglot Bibles, including a Leaf from the Complutensian of Acala, 1514-17. SF, 1966. -- BOOTH, Stephen. The Book Called Holinshed's Chronicles. SF, 1968. With a leaf from the 1587 edition ("Queen Marie", p.1168). ONE OF 500 COPIES. -- HANFF, Peter E.; and Michael O. Riley. Cyclone on the Prairies. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Arts & Crafts of Publishing in Chicago, 1900 [and] A Bookbinder's Analysis... SF, 2011. 2 volumes. With an original leaf from the first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Prospectus and errata laid in. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, all folio, all published in San Francisco by the Book Club of California, all in original bindings, condition generally fine.

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[Book Club of California]. A group of 5 leaf books, including:

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