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(Bohemian Club) Bohemian Grove Plays - a nearly complete run Place Published: San Francisco Publisher: The Bohemian Club Date Published: 1904-2013 Description: 104 volumes. Illustrated. Sizes, formats and bindings vary. Printers include John Henry Nash, the Grabhorn Press, Arion Press and more. Several 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 (The Man in the Forest), 1903 (Montezuma), 1906 (The Owl and Care), 1963 (Green Mountain Boys), or 2008 (The Count of Monte Christo). 1904. The Hamadryads: A Masque of Apollo by Will Irwin. Composer: W. J. McCoy. Wrappers. With tipped in card reading "Compliments of the Bohemian Club. (Wrappers separated and detached). 1905. The Quest of the Gorgon, A Musical Drama by Newton J. Tharp. Composer: Theodor Vogt. 1907. The Triumph of Bohemia: A Forest Play by George Sterling. Composer: Edward F. Schneider. Director: Porter Garnett. Pictorial wrappers. (Chips and tears to wrappers, pencil notes). 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. William Winters' copy with his signature, bookplate and "with the author's compliments" label tipped in. 1912. The Atonement of Pan, A Music-Drama by Joseph D. Redding. Composer: Henry Hadley. 1913. The Fall of Ug: A Masque of Fear by Rufus Steele. Composer: Herman Perlet. Boards with paper cover label, jacket. Inscribed by publisher John Howell to Alice Armstrong. (Chip to jacket at head of spine). 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. Gift inscription. 1916. Gold, A Forest Play by Frederick S. Myrtle. Composer: Humphrey J. Stewart. Cloth-backed boards, pictorial cover label. Signed and inscribed by Frederick S. Myrtle. Laid in is a vintage photograph of a painted portrait titled "The Librettist". 1917. The Land of Happiness, A Music-Drama by Charles Templeton Crocker. Composer: Joseph D. Redding. Boards with pictorial cover label. Ownership marks of A.M. Lawrence. 1918. The Twilight of the Kings by Richard M. Hotaling. Composer: Wallace Arthur Sabin. Wrappers. 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. 1923. Semper Virens by Joseph D. Redding. Composer: Henry Hadley. Wrappers. 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