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A STANFORD BOOK OF VERSE 1912-1916
Stanford, Calif.: English Club, Stanford University, 1916. 16mo. Cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. T.e.g. vii, 88 p . 1st ed. Bookplate, scattered foxing; else fine.

Price: $17.50

Contains six poems by Maxwell Anderson

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A STANFORD BOOK OF VERSE 1912-1916
Stanford, Calif.: English Club, Stanford University, 1916. 16mo. Cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. T.e.g. vii, 88 p . 1st ed. Bookplate, short notice (about two column inches) affixed to blank preliminary page; else fine in d.w. with a triangular chip at top edge of front panel.

Price: $45.00

Contains six poems by Maxwell Anderson

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THE CALIFORNIA WRITERS' CLUB BULLETIN Vol. XX, No. 14 (January, 1951) thru Vol. XXXIV, No. 4 (December, 1963) . Two volumes. Red binder's cloth, stamped in gilt. Previous owner's name stamped on front covers, scattered underlining; else very good.

Price: $75.00

A run of 130 issues of this bulletin issued in Berkeley

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Robinson Jeffers Poetry & Response: A Centennial Tribute
(JEFFERS, Robinson)
Los Agneles: Occidental College, 1987. 8vo. Wraps. 30 p . 1st ed. Fine.

Price: $17.50

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Robinson Jeffers Poetry & Response: A Centennial Tribute
(JEFFERS, Robinson)
Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1987. 8vo. Wraps. 30 p . 1st ed. A bit sunned at spine; else fine.

Price: $15.00

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The Mission Play by John Steven McGroarty, Produced at the Old San Gabriel Mission, California, Season of 1915
(MCGROARTY, JOHN STEVEN)
[San Gabriel] ; Mission Play Association, 1915. 5 x 7 in. Four-page leaflet . Folded ince horizontally; else very good.

Price: $15.00

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By the Bay
(SMITH), Lucia Etta Loring
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, (1909). Frontispiece from a bas-relief modeled by Bradetta L. Smith. 12mo. Blue boards, paper labels. v, 60 p . 1st ed. One of 250 p. Name & inscription on endpaper, light cover spotting; else about fine.

Price: $45.00

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Digging the Top Off and Other Stories
ADAMS, Emma Hildreth
San Francisco: Pacific Press Publishing Company, 1892. 16mo. Blue cloth, stamped in black & gilt. 174 p . Hinkel p. 2. Baird & Greenwood 15. Inscription on blank preliminary page, a bit of wear at extremities; else about fine.

Price: $22.50

Volume of juvenile short stories. Preceded by editions published in Cincinnati in 1887 & 1889

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The Raven's Leaf: Poems
AEONA (PSEUDONYM OF MRS. ALLIE J. LUCAS)
Los Angeles: Fowler Brothers, 1907. 8vo. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt. 168 p . 1st ed. Seminary library copy (with two stamps on title page and label near base of spine - no other markings), bookplate; else about fine.

Price: $30.00

Occult poems. A handwritten note on the front end paper states: "Presented for review to "Overland Monthly" by the author, Mrs. Allie J. Lucas, San Francisco, June, 1908"

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The Raven's Leaf: Poems
AEONA (PSEUDONYM OF MRS. ALLIE J. LUCAS)
Los Angeles: Fowler Brothers, 1907. 8vo. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt. 168 p . 1st ed. Some wear at spine; else very good.

Price: $30.00

Occult poems

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Mixed Cargo
ALLEN, Maurice
San Diego: The Torrey Pine Press, 1931. 8vo. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. 175 p . 1st ed. Hinkel p. 4., Adams, "Books and Authors of San Diego," 23. INSCRIBED & SIGNED "the author." Fine in d.w. with some minor chipping & short tears at top edge & spotting at spine.

Price: $30.00

Volume of poems written by a San Diego author

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A Christmas Chime of Mission Bells
ANDREWS, A(lice Lorraine)
San Francisco: Privately printed, 1930. 24mo. Wraps. Unpaginated . 1st ed. Bookplate inside front cover, name on first leaf; else about fine.

Price: $30.00

Contains California Christmas poems by Edward Rowland Sill, Henry Meade Bland, Ina Coolbrith, Mary Austin, Joaquin Miller, Madge Morris, Robert Louis Stevenson, Clarence Urmy, Charles Warren Stoddard, John Wright Buckham, Frederick Lucian Hosmer & Bret Harte. Andrews lived in Berkeley for many years

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Tumbleweed Trail
ARCHER, Kate Rennie
San Francisco: Canterbury Press, (1936). 24mo. Wraps. 64 p . 1st ed. Some foxing on cover, wear at overlapping fore edge of front cover; else about fine.

Price: $15.00

Scottish-born poet who, after moving to California in 1927, published seven volumes of poetry. Her papers are at the University of California, Santa Cruz

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A Legacy of Hours
ARNSTEIN, Flora J
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for the author, 1927. 12mo. Cloth-backed boards. 61 p . One of 250 (of 300) copies. Hinkel II, p. 8. About fine.

Price: $17.50

Volume of poetry. Arnstein was botn in San Francisco in 1885 and also lived in Berkeley

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The Jealous Gods
ATHERTON, Gertrude
New York: Liveright, 1928. 12mo. Black cloth, stamped in gilt. 452 p . 1st ed. Fine in fine d.w.

Price: $50.00

An exceptionally nice copy!

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Everyman's Genius
AUSTIN, Mary
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1925). Appendix & bibliogrpahy with teaching notes by Maxwell Aley. 8vo. Blue cloth, paper labels. 365 p . 1st ed. Some wear at extremities, previous owner's name on endpaper, pencilling throughout; else very good.

Price: $30.00

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"A Historical Memorial." In "The Commonweal"
AUSTIN, Mary Vol. XVI, No. 23 (October 5, 1932) . Library blind stamp & date on front cover, folded vertically for mailing, light wear; else very good.

Price: $15.00

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The Life and Letters of John Muir
BADÈ, William Frederic
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Two vols. 8vo. Green buckram, leather spine labels. vi, 398 + 453 p . 1st ed. BAL 14779. Previous owner's name on front free endpapers; else very good.

Price: $50.00

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Found in a Derelict: "Queen of the Night" and Other Poems
BANNING, George Hugh
Los Angeles: Murrell Printing Co., 1919. Illus. by Loren Roberta Barton. 8vo. Wraps. x, 58 p . 1st ed. Hinkel p. 13. SIGNED on a tipped in bookplate (designed by Barton & also SIGNED by her). Another non-authorial bookplate inside front cover, minor wear at edges of cover; else fine.

Price: $45.00

Poems on maritime themes. Banning was born in Los Angeles in 1895

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Confessions of a Quack
BARTLETT, T[homas] P[atrick]
Oakland: J. de Menzes & Sons, 1921. Illus. with drawings by the author. Small 8vo. Red cloth, stamped in black. 144 p . 1st ed. Hinkel p. 22. Cover a bit dull & faded; else very good.

Price: $45.00

Novel of the medical profession written by an Oakland physician

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