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Title: Bohemian Grove Plays - a nearly complete run
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:The Bohemian Club
Date Published: 1908-2013
Description: 99 volumes. Illustrated. Sizes, formats and bindings vary. Printers include John Henry Nash, the Grabhorn Press, Arion Press and more.Some copies are signed by authors, performers, and/or camp members. The collection includes several seldom-seen early Grove plays from San Francisco's famed Bohemian Club whose early members included Jack London, George Sterling, celebrities, politicians, and business magnates. From the Foreword to The Cave Man (1910), "The Grove Play of the Bohemian Club is the outgrowth of [The Cremation of Care] an illuminated spectacle produced annually among redwood trees in California. In The Man in the Forest, at the Midsummer Jinks of 1902, this spectacle first became a play, the text being the work of one author and the music the work of one composer. Since then, the music drama has been steadily elaborated." The elaboration included privately printed books by some of the great masters of West Coast fine press printing including John Henry Nash, The Grabhorn brothers, Arion Press and others. The collection does not include the plays from 1902-1907 (The Man in the Forest, Montezuma, The Hamdryads, The Quest of the Gorgon, The Owl and Care, and The Triumph of Bohemia), 1996 (Runnymede), 2004 (Concord Fight) or 2007-10 (Leprechaun, The Count of Monte Christo, Gaijin, and Atlantis). Some bookplates and ownership marks.
1908. The Sons of Baldur: A Forest Music-Drama by Herman George Scheffauer. Composer: Arthur Weiss. Wrappers with pictorial cover label.
1909. St. Patrick at Tara by Harold Morse Stephens. Composer: Wallace Arthur Sabin. Wrappers.
1910. The Cave Man, A Play of the Redwoods by Charles K. Field. Composer: W. J. McCoy.
1911: The Green Knight, A Vision by Porter Garnett. Composer: Edward G. Stricklen.
1912. The Atonement of Pan, A Music-Drama by Joseph D. Redding. Composer: Henry Hadley. 2 copies: wrappers and boards variant bindings.
1913. The Fall of Ug: A Masque of Fear by Rufus Steele. Composer: Herman Perlet. Boards with paper cover label.
1914. Nec-Natama (Comradeship): A Forest Play by J. Wilson Shiels. Composer: Uda Waldrop. Pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by the author.
1915. Apollo, A Music-Drama by Frank Pixley. Composer: Edward F. Schneider. Boards.
1916. Gold, A Forest Play by Frederick S. Myrtle. Composer: Humphrey J. Stewart. Cloth-backed boards, pictorial cover label.
1917. The Land of Happiness, A Music-Drama by Charles Templeton Crocker. Composer: Joseph D. Redding. Boards with pictorial cover label.
1918. The Twilight of the Kings by Richard M. Hotaling. Composer: Wallace Arthur Sabin. Wrappers. (Front cover separated).
1919. Life by Harry Leon Wilson. Composer: Domenico Brescia. Wrappers.
1920. Ilya of Murom by Charles Caldwell Dobie. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli. Wrappers.
1921. St. John of Nepomuk by Clay Meredith Greene. Composer: Humphrey J. Stewart. Pictorial wrappers.
1922. The Rout of the Philistines, A Forest Play by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Nino Marcelli. Wrappers. (Chip to wrappers at rear yappe edge).
1923. Semper Virens by Joseph D. Redding. Composer: Henry Hadley. Wrappers. (Wrappers separating).
1924. Rajvara by Roy Neily. Composer: Wheeler Beckett. Wrappers.
1925. Wings by Joseph S. Thompson. Composer: George Edwards. Wrappers. Signed by the author and several camp members.
1926. Truth, A Grove Play by George Sterling. Composer: Domenico Brescia. Signed by George Sterling and others.
1927. Saint Francis of Assisi by Irving Pichel. Composer: Charles Hart. Wrappers.
1928. Nanda by Garnet Holme. Composer: Edward F. Schneider. Pictorial wrappers.
1929. A Gest of Robin Hood by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Robert C. Newell. Pictorial wrappers.
1930. Birds of Rhiannon by Waldemar Young. Composer: Edward C. Harris. Boards, paper spine label.
1931. Joan by W. B. Garthwaite. Composer: Charles L. Safford. Signed by W.B. Garthwaite, Charles L. Safford and others.
1932. Sorcerer's Drum by Daniel W. Evans. Composer: Charles Hart.
1933. The Legend of Hani by Junius Cravens. Composer: Henry Hadley. Boards with paper spine label. Signed with inscription by the author and the composer.
1934. St. Patrick at Tara by Harold Morse Stephens. Composer: Wallace Arthur Sabin. Boards, paper spine label.
1935. The Quest by Wilburt Hall. Composer: Roderick White.
1936. Ivanhoe by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Harry I. Wiel. Boards, paper spine label.
1937. Lifkronan by Kenneth G. Hook. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli.
1938. The Piper by Dan Totheroh. Composer: Eugene Heyes. Boards, paper spine label. Signed by the composer with inscription. Camp member signatures.
1939. The Golden Feather by Waldemar Young. Composer: Uda Waldrop.
1940. Saul by Benjamin Allen Purrington. Composer: Charles Hart.
1941. The Golden Talisman by Charles Caldwell Dobie. Composer: Alec Templeton. Camp member signatures.
1942. The American Scene by Carlton E. Morse. Composer: Michael Raffetto.
1946. Johnny Appleseed by Dan Totheroh. Composer: Wendell Otey.
1947. The Yester-Years (a compilation of past Grove Play scenes). Camp member signatures.
1948. Maternus by Kenneth Ferguson. Composer: Wendell Otey. Signed by the author. (heavy dampstaining and consequent ripple to leaves). Includes a second copy with camp signatures.
1949. The Cosmic Jest by C. B. Kelland. Composer: Frank R. Denke.
1950. Tetecan by Howard A. Muckle. Composer: Hugh D. Brown. Signed by an actor and several camp members.
1951. Fools in the Forest by Dan Totheroh. Composer: Peter Heyes.
1952. Tandem Triumphans by Alexander T. Case. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli.
1953. A Romany Legend by Harris Allen. Composer: Antonio de Grassi.
1954. A Gest of Robin Hood by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Robert C. Newell.
1955. Don Quijote, an Adventure of that Ingenious Gentlemen of La Mancha by Alexander T. Case. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli. Signed and inscribed by both author and composer.
1956. The Beggar by Gordon Steedman. Composer: Philip Boon.
1957. Diablo by Bauer E. Kramer. Composer: Frank R. Denke. Camp member signatures.
1958. Aloha Oe by Earle C. Anthony. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli.
1959. Cortez by Howard A. Muckle. Composer: Hugh D. Brown.
1960. Rip Van Winkle by Dan Totheroh. Composer: Charles Hart.
1961. A Soldier and Mr. Lincoln by Alexander T. Case. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli.
1962. Agincourt by True Tourtillot. Composer: Robert B. England.
1963. The Green Mountain Boys by Richard L. Breen. Composer: Raymond W. Hackett.
1964. The Buccaneers: a Grove Play based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island by David Bickersteth Magee. Composer: Leon C. Radsliff.
1965. Sancho Panza by Alexander T. Case. Composer: Leigh Harline.
1966. The Valley of the Moon by Ralph Moody. Composer: Raymond W. Hackett.
1967. Will by John Brent Mills. Composer: Wendell Otey. Signed by the author with inscription.
1968. Omar by Harry Anderson. Composer: Charles G. Dant.
1969. St. John of Bohemia by Neill Compton Wilson. Composer: Leigh Harline.
1970. The Bonny Cravat by David Bickersteth Magee. Composer: George Shearing.
1971. Red is the Grass by Francis Xavier Fogarty. Composer: Francis Xavier Fogarty.
1972. The Centennial Grove Play, (1872-1972) by Robert B. England. Composer: Charles G. Dant. Signed by Dan Thotheroh.
1973. The Golden Cave by David Bickersteth Magee. Composer: George Shearing.
1974. Armada by John Brent Mills. Composer: Dale Wood.
1975. Allegory: An Odyssey in Time and Space by Will A. Parker. Composer: Carl J. Eberhard.
1976. Noah by Robert B. England. Composer: Frank R. Denke.
1977. El Dorado by Louis E. Felder. Composer: Louis F. Bush.
1978. Siddhartha by Alan Hammond Nichols. Composer: Earl Zindars.
1979. The Flying Spear by Alexander T. Case. Composer: Charles G. Dant. Program in pocket at rear.
1980. Olympus by Peter R. Arnott. Composer: Carl J. Eberhard.
1981. Taj Mahal by Francis N. Marshall. Composer: Raymond W. Hackett.
1982. Saint Francis of Assisi by Irving Pichel. Composer: Charles Hart.
1983. Ciao Venezia by James L. Benington. Composer: Carl J. Eberhard.
1984. Maximilian! by Donald L. Winks. Composer: Charles M. Denton.
1985. Solferino by George S. Prugh. Composer: Parmer Fuller.
1986. Galileo by Rod McManigal. Composer: Carl J. Eberhard.
1987. Talleyrand by John Brent Mills. Composer: Andrew Imbrie.
1988. Robert the Bruce by Howard Guy Ervin. Composer: William P. Snyder.
1989. Pompeii by Rod McManigal. Composer: David A. Bowman.
1990. The Prophecy by J. Thomas Rosch. Composer: William Whitney Pursell.
1991. Tyburn Fair by Donald L. Winks. Composer: Richard B. Evans.
1992. Cristoforo Columbo by Nello Pace. Composer: Jack Rogers.
1993. Qin Shihuang-Di; The First Emperor by Sonny Bing Gee. Composer: Herbert A. Goodrich.
1994. The Leonardo Betrayal by Mac McCandless. Composer: Kenneth B. Baggott.
1995. Marco Polo by Rod McManigal. Composer: Jack Rogers.
1997. Time and Again: A Compendium of Highlights from Grove Plays over the Years by Donald L. Winks. Composer: Charles M. Denton. Bickel copy with ownership marks, highlighting and production notes in pen.
1998. Alexandre Dumas and His Musketeers by Charles L. Morey. Composer: E. R. McCandless.
1999. Merlin by Richard C. Dehmel. Composer: Herbert A. Goodrich.
2000. Je suis Lafitte by James C. Crimmins. Composer: Allyn Ferguson.
2001. Marius of the Populares by Kenneth B. Baggott.
2002. Emperor Norton by Howard Guy Ervin III. Composer: Richard Walsh. With laid-in invitation designed as Emperor Norton's currency.
2003. Fort Ross by Peter O'Malley. Composer: Peter R. Arnott.
2005. Bully! by Richard C. Dehmel. Composer: Jeffrey Haskell. Signed with inscription by Richard C. Dehmel.
2006. Allegory by Will A. Parker. Composer: Carl J. Eberhard.
2011. Casanova by Howard Guy Ervin III. Composer: Richard B. Evans.
2012. Tchaikovsky's Masque by Herbert Goodrich. Composer: Shinji Eshima.
2013. Longbow by William Bentley. Composer: Brett Strader.
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Author:
Title: Bohemian Grove Plays - a nearly complete run
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:The Bohemian Club
Date Published: 1908-2013
Description: 99 volumes. Illustrated. Sizes, formats and bindings vary. Printers include John Henry Nash, the Grabhorn Press, Arion Press and more.Some copies are signed by authors, performers, and/or camp members. The collection includes several seldom-seen early Grove plays from San Francisco's famed Bohemian Club whose early members included Jack London, George Sterling, celebrities, politicians, and business magnates. From the Foreword to The Cave Man (1910), "The Grove Play of the Bohemian Club is the outgrowth of [The Cremation of Care] an illuminated spectacle produced annually among redwood trees in California. In The Man in the Forest, at the Midsummer Jinks of 1902, this spectacle first became a play, the text being the work of one author and the music the work of one composer. Since then, the music drama has been steadily elaborated." The elaboration included privately printed books by some of the great masters of West Coast fine press printing including John Henry Nash, The Grabhorn brothers, Arion Press and others. The collection does not include the plays from 1902-1907 (The Man in the Forest, Montezuma, The Hamdryads, The Quest of the Gorgon, The Owl and Care, and The Triumph of Bohemia), 1996 (Runnymede), 2004 (Concord Fight) or 2007-10 (Leprechaun, The Count of Monte Christo, Gaijin, and Atlantis). Some bookplates and ownership marks.
1908. The Sons of Baldur: A Forest Music-Drama by Herman George Scheffauer. Composer: Arthur Weiss. Wrappers with pictorial cover label.
1909. St. Patrick at Tara by Harold Morse Stephens. Composer: Wallace Arthur Sabin. Wrappers.
1910. The Cave Man, A Play of the Redwoods by Charles K. Field. Composer: W. J. McCoy.
1911: The Green Knight, A Vision by Porter Garnett. Composer: Edward G. Stricklen.
1912. The Atonement of Pan, A Music-Drama by Joseph D. Redding. Composer: Henry Hadley. 2 copies: wrappers and boards variant bindings.
1913. The Fall of Ug: A Masque of Fear by Rufus Steele. Composer: Herman Perlet. Boards with paper cover label.
1914. Nec-Natama (Comradeship): A Forest Play by J. Wilson Shiels. Composer: Uda Waldrop. Pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by the author.
1915. Apollo, A Music-Drama by Frank Pixley. Composer: Edward F. Schneider. Boards.
1916. Gold, A Forest Play by Frederick S. Myrtle. Composer: Humphrey J. Stewart. Cloth-backed boards, pictorial cover label.
1917. The Land of Happiness, A Music-Drama by Charles Templeton Crocker. Composer: Joseph D. Redding. Boards with pictorial cover label.
1918. The Twilight of the Kings by Richard M. Hotaling. Composer: Wallace Arthur Sabin. Wrappers. (Front cover separated).
1919. Life by Harry Leon Wilson. Composer: Domenico Brescia. Wrappers.
1920. Ilya of Murom by Charles Caldwell Dobie. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli. Wrappers.
1921. St. John of Nepomuk by Clay Meredith Greene. Composer: Humphrey J. Stewart. Pictorial wrappers.
1922. The Rout of the Philistines, A Forest Play by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Nino Marcelli. Wrappers. (Chip to wrappers at rear yappe edge).
1923. Semper Virens by Joseph D. Redding. Composer: Henry Hadley. Wrappers. (Wrappers separating).
1924. Rajvara by Roy Neily. Composer: Wheeler Beckett. Wrappers.
1925. Wings by Joseph S. Thompson. Composer: George Edwards. Wrappers. Signed by the author and several camp members.
1926. Truth, A Grove Play by George Sterling. Composer: Domenico Brescia. Signed by George Sterling and others.
1927. Saint Francis of Assisi by Irving Pichel. Composer: Charles Hart. Wrappers.
1928. Nanda by Garnet Holme. Composer: Edward F. Schneider. Pictorial wrappers.
1929. A Gest of Robin Hood by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Robert C. Newell. Pictorial wrappers.
1930. Birds of Rhiannon by Waldemar Young. Composer: Edward C. Harris. Boards, paper spine label.
1931. Joan by W. B. Garthwaite. Composer: Charles L. Safford. Signed by W.B. Garthwaite, Charles L. Safford and others.
1932. Sorcerer's Drum by Daniel W. Evans. Composer: Charles Hart.
1933. The Legend of Hani by Junius Cravens. Composer: Henry Hadley. Boards with paper spine label. Signed with inscription by the author and the composer.
1934. St. Patrick at Tara by Harold Morse Stephens. Composer: Wallace Arthur Sabin. Boards, paper spine label.
1935. The Quest by Wilburt Hall. Composer: Roderick White.
1936. Ivanhoe by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Harry I. Wiel. Boards, paper spine label.
1937. Lifkronan by Kenneth G. Hook. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli.
1938. The Piper by Dan Totheroh. Composer: Eugene Heyes. Boards, paper spine label. Signed by the composer with inscription. Camp member signatures.
1939. The Golden Feather by Waldemar Young. Composer: Uda Waldrop.
1940. Saul by Benjamin Allen Purrington. Composer: Charles Hart.
1941. The Golden Talisman by Charles Caldwell Dobie. Composer: Alec Templeton. Camp member signatures.
1942. The American Scene by Carlton E. Morse. Composer: Michael Raffetto.
1946. Johnny Appleseed by Dan Totheroh. Composer: Wendell Otey.
1947. The Yester-Years (a compilation of past Grove Play scenes). Camp member signatures.
1948. Maternus by Kenneth Ferguson. Composer: Wendell Otey. Signed by the author. (heavy dampstaining and consequent ripple to leaves). Includes a second copy with camp signatures.
1949. The Cosmic Jest by C. B. Kelland. Composer: Frank R. Denke.
1950. Tetecan by Howard A. Muckle. Composer: Hugh D. Brown. Signed by an actor and several camp members.
1951. Fools in the Forest by Dan Totheroh. Composer: Peter Heyes.
1952. Tandem Triumphans by Alexander T. Case. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli.
1953. A Romany Legend by Harris Allen. Composer: Antonio de Grassi.
1954. A Gest of Robin Hood by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Robert C. Newell.
1955. Don Quijote, an Adventure of that Ingenious Gentlemen of La Mancha by Alexander T. Case. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli. Signed and inscribed by both author and composer.
1956. The Beggar by Gordon Steedman. Composer: Philip Boon.
1957. Diablo by Bauer E. Kramer. Composer: Frank R. Denke. Camp member signatures.
1958. Aloha Oe by Earle C. Anthony. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli.
1959. Cortez by Howard A. Muckle. Composer: Hugh D. Brown.
1960. Rip Van Winkle by Dan Totheroh. Composer: Charles Hart.
1961. A Soldier and Mr. Lincoln by Alexander T. Case. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli.
1962. Agincourt by True Tourtillot. Composer: Robert B. England.
1963. The Green Mountain Boys by Richard L. Breen. Composer: Raymond W. Hackett.
1964. The Buccaneers: a Grove Play based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island by David Bickersteth Magee. Composer: Leon C. Radsliff.
1965. Sancho Panza by Alexander T. Case. Composer: Leigh Harline.
1966. The Valley of the Moon by Ralph Moody. Composer: Raymond W. Hackett.
1967. Will by John Brent Mills. Composer: Wendell Otey. Signed by the author with inscription.
1968. Omar by Harry Anderson. Composer: Charles G. Dant.
1969. St. John of Bohemia by Neill Compton Wilson. Composer: Leigh Harline.
1970. The Bonny Cravat by David Bickersteth Magee. Composer: George Shearing.
1971. Red is the Grass by Francis Xavier Fogarty. Composer: Francis Xavier Fogarty.
1972. The Centennial Grove Play, (1872-1972) by Robert B. England. Composer: Charles G. Dant. Signed by Dan Thotheroh.
1973. The Golden Cave by David Bickersteth Magee. Composer: George Shearing.
1974. Armada by John Brent Mills. Composer: Dale Wood.
1975. Allegory: An Odyssey in Time and Space by Will A. Parker. Composer: Carl J. Eberhard.
1976. Noah by Robert B. England. Composer: Frank R. Denke.
1977. El Dorado by Louis E. Felder. Composer: Louis F. Bush.
1978. Siddhartha by Alan Hammond Nichols. Composer: Earl Zindars.
1979. The Flying Spear by Alexander T. Case. Composer: Charles G. Dant. Program in pocket at rear.
1980. Olympus by Peter R. Arnott. Composer: Carl J. Eberhard.
1981. Taj Mahal by Francis N. Marshall. Composer: Raymond W. Hackett.
1982. Saint Francis of Assisi by Irving Pichel. Composer: Charles Hart.
1983. Ciao Venezia by James L. Benington. Composer: Carl J. Eberhard.
1984. Maximilian! by Donald L. Winks. Composer: Charles M. Denton.
1985. Solferino by George S. Prugh. Composer: Parmer Fuller.
1986. Galileo by Rod McManigal. Composer: Carl J. Eberhard.
1987. Talleyrand by John Brent Mills. Composer: Andrew Imbrie.
1988. Robert the Bruce by Howard Guy Ervin. Composer: William P. Snyder.
1989. Pompeii by Rod McManigal. Composer: David A. Bowman.
1990. The Prophecy by J. Thomas Rosch. Composer: William Whitney Pursell.
1991. Tyburn Fair by Donald L. Winks. Composer: Richard B. Evans.
1992. Cristoforo Columbo by Nello Pace. Composer: Jack Rogers.
1993. Qin Shihuang-Di; The First Emperor by Sonny Bing Gee. Composer: Herbert A. Goodrich.
1994. The Leonardo Betrayal by Mac McCandless. Composer: Kenneth B. Baggott.
1995. Marco Polo by Rod McManigal. Composer: Jack Rogers.
1997. Time and Again: A Compendium of Highlights from Grove Plays over the Years by Donald L. Winks. Composer: Charles M. Denton. Bickel copy with ownership marks, highlighting and production notes in pen.
1998. Alexandre Dumas and His Musketeers by Charles L. Morey. Composer: E. R. McCandless.
1999. Merlin by Richard C. Dehmel. Composer: Herbert A. Goodrich.
2000. Je suis Lafitte by James C. Crimmins. Composer: Allyn Ferguson.
2001. Marius of the Populares by Kenneth B. Baggott.
2002. Emperor Norton by Howard Guy Ervin III. Composer: Richard Walsh. With laid-in invitation designed as Emperor Norton's currency.
2003. Fort Ross by Peter O'Malley. Composer: Peter R. Arnott.
2005. Bully! by Richard C. Dehmel. Composer: Jeffrey Haskell. Signed with inscription by Richard C. Dehmel.
2006. Allegory by Will A. Parker. Composer: Carl J. Eberhard.
2011. Casanova by Howard Guy Ervin III. Composer: Richard B. Evans.
2012. Tchaikovsky's Masque by Herbert Goodrich. Composer: Shinji Eshima.
2013. Longbow by William Bentley. Composer: Brett Strader.
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