[Book Club of California & Grabhorn Press]. A group of 61 titles, including:

The Letter of Amerigo Vespucci Describing his Four Voyages to the New World, 1497-1504. 1926. One of 250 copies. -- WHEAT, Carl. Mapping the Transmississippi West. 1963. Volume 5 only (parts I and II). -- BECKER, Robert H. Disenos of California Ranchos. Maps of thirty-seven Land Grants [1822-1846]. 1964. -- BAIRD, Joseph Armstrong, Jr. California's Pictorial Letter Sheets, 1849-1869. 1967. One of 475 copies. -- BECKER, Robert H. Designs on the Land. 1969. One of 500 copies. -- SEATON, Elizabeth. WPA. Federal Art Project. Printmaking in California 1935-1943. 2005. One of 450 copies. -- WAGENER, Richard. California in Relief. 2009. One of 300 copies, signed by Wagener. -- WAGENER, Richard. The Sierra Nevada Suite. 2013. One of 308 copies, signed by Wagener. -- HILLER, Peter. The Life and Times of Jo Mora. 2019. One of 295 copies, signed by contributors. -- GIOIA, Dana. From California. 2024. ONE OF 25 DELUXE COPIES, this copy letter "N", signed by Gioia and Richard Wagener. -- And others.

[With:] many keepsakes, pamphlets, and broadsides.

The Book Club of California is one of the nation's oldest and most respected bibliophile societies. Founded in 1912 in San Francisco, it was established to promote the appreciation of fine printing, book collecting, and the history of the American West. The Club is best known for its finely produced limited-edition publications, many devoted to California, Western Americana, exploration, printing history, and the book arts. Beginning in the 1920s, the Grabhorn Press, also founded in San Francisco, printed many of the Book Club of California's most important publications

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Printed Books & Early American Photography, including Selections from the Larry Ness Collection

[Book Club of California & Grabhorn Press]. A group of 61 titles, including:

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