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94 volumes. Illustrated. Sizes, formats and bindings vary. Printers include John Henry Nash the Grabhorn Press, Arion Press and more. Some copies are signed by 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); 1910 (The Cave Man); 1991 (Tyburn Fair); 1994-95 (The Leonardo Betrayal, Marco Polo; 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. 1911: The Green Knight, A Vision by Porter Garnett. Composer: Edward G. Stricklen. (Chip to preliminary blank). 1912. The Atonement of Pan, A Music-Drama by Joseph D. Redding. Composer: Henry Hadley. Wrappers. 1913. The Fall of Ug: A Masque of Fear by Rufus Steele. Composer: Herman Perlet. Boards with paper cover label. Signed by John Howell with inscription to Polly Oliver dated April 23,1919. 1914. Nec-Natama (Comradeship): A Forest Play by J. Wilson Shiels. Composer: Uda Waldrop. Pictorial wrappers. 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. (Spine perished). 1918. The Twilight of the Kings by Richard M. Hotaling. Composer: Wallace Arthur Sabin. Wrappers. (Chipping to wrappers). 1919. Life by Harry Leon Wilson. Composer: Domenico Brescia. Wrappers. (Chipping to 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. (Chip and small tears to wrappers). 1922. The Rout of the Philistines, A Forest Play by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Nino Marcelli. Wrappers. (Vertical crease to rear cover, some small tears at wrappers edges). 1923. Semper Virens by Joseph D. Redding. Composer: Henry Hadley. Wrappers. (Wrappers sunned with some creasing). 1924. Rajvara by Roy Neily. Composer: Wheeler Beckett. Wrappers. (Coffee (?) stain at lower right corner of textblock). 1925. Wings by Joseph S. Thompson. Composer: George Edwards Wrappers. 1926. Truth, A Grove Play by George Sterling. Composer: Domenico Brescia. 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. (Bump to top corner). 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. (Previous owner's initials) 1932. Sorcerer's Drum by