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  • Keepsake series.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1933-
    • 1933-present
  • The sting of the Wasp; Political & satirical cartoons from the truculent early San Francisco Weekly, with an introduction & comments by Kenneth M. Johnson.

    • Text
    • San Francisco, Book club of California, 1967.
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP+ (Book Club) 73-285Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Rezanov reconnoiters California, 1806; a new translation of Rezanov's letter, parts of Lieutenant Khvostov's log of the ship Juno, and Dr. Georg von Langsdorff['s] observations. Edited by Richard A. Pierce.

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    • San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 73-175Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • California as an island; an illustrated essay by John Leighly. With 25 plates & a bibliographical Checklist of maps showing California as an island, 1622-1785.

    • Text
    • San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP+ (Book Club) 73-380Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Overland journey to Carson Valley & California, by Hozial H. Baker.

    • Text
    • [San Francisco] Book Club of California, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 74-63Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • California, land of gold; or Stay at home and work hard. A short description of California dnd the dangers which threaten the immigrant along with the story of the sad fate of a German immigrant, by J. Müller. [Translated from the German by Anthony Knight]

    • Text
    • San Francisco, Book Club of California [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 73-372Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Oscar Wilde: Irish poets and poetry of the nineteenth century. A lecture delivered in Platt's Hall. San Francisco on Wednesday, April fifth, 1882. Edited from Wilde's manuscript and reconstructed, in part, from contemporary newspaper accounts, with an introd. and biographical notes, by Robert D. Pepper.

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    • San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 74-73Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Aurifodina; or, Adventures in the Gold Region. A fantastical '49er novel written by Cantell A. Bigly <G. W. Peck>, with a pref. by James D. Hart and collage illustrations by Bruce Conner.

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    • San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 74-422Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A naval campaign in the Californias, 1846-1849; the journal of Lieutenant Tunis Augustus Macdonough Craven, U. S. N. United States Sloop of War, Dale. Edited by John Haskell Kemble.

    • Text
    • [San Francisco] Book Club of California [c1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 75-403Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Four lectures by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. Edited, with an introductory essay ... by John Dreyfus.

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    • San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book club) 75-780Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A leaf from the first edition of the first complete Bible in English, the Coverdale Bible, 1535 : with an historical introd. / by Allen P. Wikgren and a census of copies recorded in the British Isles and North America [compiled by John Howell].

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1974.
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP₊ (Book Club) 75-864Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • William Caxton and his quincentenary.

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    • San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 76-604Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The gold digger's song book, containing the most popular humorous & sentimental songs, composed by M. Taylor and sung by his original company with unbounded applause throughout California. Marysville: Marysville Daily Herald Print, 1856. With an introd. by Sister Mary Dominic Ray.

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    • San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 77-685Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • San Francisco, 1806-1906, in contemporary paintings, drawings, and watercolors, by Jeanne Van Nostrand.

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    • San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1975 [i. e. 1976]
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP+ (Book Club) 78-295Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Valenti Angelo: author, illustrator, printer.

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    • San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP+ (Book Club) 78-294Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A leaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens Herbal printed by Christopher Plantin. With a short essay by Carey S. Bliss.

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    • San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP+ (Book Club) 78-193Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Early California stock certificates / Book Club of California.

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    • [San Francisco] : The Club, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 73-176 ser. 1978Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Mountain passes and trails of California / Book Club of California ; [edited by Donald R. Fleming].

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    • San Francisco : The Club, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 73-176 ser. 1979Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • At the Sign of the Lark : William Doxey's San Francisco publishing venture / by Robert D. Harlan ; with an annotated bibliography.

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    • [San Francisco] : Book Club of California, 1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-398Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Fond of printing : Gordon Graig [sic] as typographer & illustrator / by Colin Franklin ; with a foreword by Edward Craig and an essay by Gordon Craig on illustrations in general.

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    • San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 86-25Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A western journey with Mr. Emerson / by James Bradley Thayer ; edited with a foreword and notes by Shirley Sargent.

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    • [San Francisco] : Book Club of California, 1980.
    • 1980
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-413Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Rare Books 04-217Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Wine-making in California / Arpad Haraszthy ; with an introduction by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 87-1118Offsite
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  • Thomas Bewick & the Fables of Aesop / biographical sketch by John W. Borden ; history of the fables by Janet S. Krueger ; with an original leaf from the first edition (1818) of The fables of Aesop and a new impression from one of Bewick's original wood engravings.

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    • San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 87-20Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The engraved bookplates of Eric Gill, 1908-1940 / compiled by Christopher Skelton ; with an introduction by Michael Renton ; and an afterword by Albert Sperisen.

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    • San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 87-42Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Collected letters / Frank Norris ; compiled and annotated by Jesse S. Crisler.

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    • San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP+ (Book Club) 87-54Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Publication.

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    • San Francisco, CA : The Book Club of California.
    • unknown-present
  • El Triunfo de la Cruz : a description of the building by Father Juan Ugarte of the first ship made in California : an essay / by Theodore H. Hittell ; with a prefatory note by Oscar Lewis ; decorations by Valenti Angelo.

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    • [San Francisco] : Book Club of California, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-400Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • California's wayside inns : relics of stagecoach days.

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    • [San Francisco] : Book Club of California, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 73-176 ser. 1988Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Joseph M. Bransten, 1900-1980.

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    • [San Francisco] : Book Club of California, 1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-391Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Vignettes of early California : childhood reminiscences of Juan Bautista Alvarado / translated by John H.R. Polt ; with an introduction & notes by W. Michael Mathes.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-390Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Images of Chinatown : Louis J. Stellman's Chinatown photographs / Richard Dillon.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-396Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Breadbasket of the world : California's great wheat-growing era, 1860-1890.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1984, c1985.
    • 1984-1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 73-176 ser. 1984Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Chapter nine : the Vulgate Bible & other unfinished projects of John Henry Nash / by Robert D. Harlan.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-399Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Florence S. Walter, 1884-1972.

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    • [San Francisco] : Printed for the members of the Book Club of California, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KVB (1972, May) 89-404Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Redwood and lumbering in California forests : a reconstruction of the original Edgar Cherry edition / edited, with an account of its publication in 1884, by Peter E. Palmquist ; including a catalog of all known photographs ; preface by Gary F. Kurutz.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-407Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A matter of taste : Willis Polk's writings on architecture in the Wave / edited with an introduction by Richard W. Longstreth.

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    • [San Francisco] : Book Club of California, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-405Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Benjamin C. Truman : California booster & bon vivant / by Gary F. Kurutz.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-401Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Frederic Goudy, Joseph Foster and the press at Scripps College / by Ward Ritchie.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-409Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Paul Landacre / by Ward Ritchie.

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    • [San Francisco] : Book Club of California, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-410Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • BR : a panel discussion at the Bruce Rogers Centenary, held at Purdue University / by Harry Duncan, K.K. Merker and Ward Ritchie.

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    • [San Francisco] : Book Club of California, 1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-406Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Growing new roots : an essay with fourteen wood engravings / by Clare Leighton.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-402Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Spanish approaches to the Island of California, 1628-1632 / translated and edited by W. Michael Mathes.

    • Text
    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-411Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The Grabhorn Press : a biography / by Roby Wentz.

    • Text
    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-414Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Letters to Elizabeth : a selection of letters from John Steinbeck to Elizabeth Otis / edited by Florian J. Shasky and Susan F. Riggs ; with an introduction by Carlton A. Sheffield.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-412Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Baptism in oil : Stephen F. Peckham in southern California, 1865-66 / by Gerald T. White.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 89-415Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A Portfolio of Book Club printers, 1962-1987 : 75th anniversary keepsake / [Albert Sperisen, John Borden, co-editors].

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    • [San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1987]
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 73-176 ser. 1987Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Lithographic views of California towns, 1875-1889.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1985 [i.e. 1986]
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 73-176 ser. 1985Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • California printing : a selected list of books which are significant or representative of a California style of printing.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1980-1987.
    • 1980-1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 73-176 ser. 1980-1982 Pt. 1-2Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Poems / by Robinson Jeffers ; introduction by B.H. Lehman.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1928.
    • 1928
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Berg Coll 91-456Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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  • Sports in California.

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    • San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Book Club) 73-176 ser. 1986Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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