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Title: Lot of 5 Ephemeral Items by and About George Sterling Author: Sterling, George Place Publisher: Various Publishers Date: Various Dates Description: Comprising: Sonnets to Craig. [The Bookman, 1928], 10x7, pp. 515-526, single gathering, unbound. * Lilies of Stone. [San Francisco: Philopolis Press, 1916]. 6½x4¼. Single sheet tan, linen-weave paper folded to make 4 pp. Text printed in brown, tipped-in illustration. First Edition. BAL 18766. * The City by the Sea. [San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1931]. Single sheet cardstock folded to make 4 pp. First Edition. BAL 18850, state 'A'. * George Sterling: The Last Bohemian. [San Francisco]: Printed for Donald R. Fleming by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, 1972. 12½x8, single sheet folded twice to make 4 pp. Photo of Sterling and text of untitled Sterling poem on facing pages.* On a Western Beach. Orinda: Press of the Golden Key, 1968. 10x5½, single sheet folded twice to make 4 pp. Map illustration and Sterling poem on facing pages printed in red and black. First item is a selection of 29 "Sonnets to Craig." The "Craig" of the sonnets was Mary Craig Kimbrough, later Mrs. Upton Sinclair. Sterling wrote the sonnets in 1911. Sinclair published the complete "Sonnets" in November 1928, a year after Sterling's death. Second item was printed as an Easter card. Last item a keepsake for the Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs "To remember a cruise on San Francisco Bay." Lot Amendments Condition: All very good to fine. Item number: 193101