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Title: Eight volumes of Americana published by the Book Club of California Author: Place: San Francisco Publisher: Book Club of California Date: Description: 8 volumes, all in the original hardcover bindings, some with plain paper jackets, some with original prospectus laid in. First Editions. Includes: Brown, James Berry. Journal of a Journey Across the Plains in 1859. Illustrated boards, plain brown dust jacket. One of 450 copies. 1970. Leighton, Clare. Growing New Roots: An Essay with Fourteen Wood Engravings. Tan cloth. No. 280 of 500 copies printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. 1976. Meyers, William H. Sketches of California and Hawaii by William H Meyers, Gunner, U.S.N Aboard the United States Sloop-of-War Cyane 1842-1843. Full cloth, spine label. Prospectus laid in. One of 450 copies. 1970. Pinney, Thomas. John Ignatius Bleasdale: a Friend of Wine in New Worlds. Burgundy cloth, spine label. 2006. Rawls, James J. Dan De Quille of the Big Bonanza. Cloth-backed boards with jacket. Prospectus laid in. One of 650 copies.1980. Ridge, John Rollin. A Trumpet of Our Own. Cloth-backed boards with jacket. Prospectus laid in. One of 650 copies.1981. Sawkins, James Gay. A Pictorial Tour of Hawaii, 1850-1852: Watercolors, Painting, & Drawings by James Gay Sawkins With an account of his life & travels by David W. Forbes. original beige cloth, paper spine label, plain jacket. One of 400 copies, designed by Jack Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press. 1991. Von Berg, Gustav. From Kapuvar to California, 1893. Cloth-backed boards with jacket. Prospectus laid in. One of 500 copies. 1979. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping charges may apply. Lot Amendments Condition: General light wear; all volumes about near fine or better. Item number: 279658