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Title: Plan Layout for 1960 Bohemian Grove Play Rip Van Winkle with the James Earle Jewell collection of early Bohemian Club Grove Plays, Grove Play props, Boho publications and ephemera
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Bohemian Club
Date Published: 1907-1990
Description:

Includes:

• 38 volumes. Collection of Grove Plays and other Bohemian Club-related publications. See online catalogue.
• July 2, 1958 notification of election as associate member of The Bohemian Club signed by Holloway Jones, Secretary.
• The Cremation of Care. 7 pp. mimeograph of the ritual script adapted by Charles K. Field and Palmer Field, dated 06/18/69. Manuscript notes by Jim Jewell for lighting the ceremony.
• Assorted manuscript correspondence between Jewell and other Bohemians and guests.
• Plan Layout - Rip Van Winkle - Grove Play, 1960. Large folding pencil drawing on paper by Donald S. Macky. 72x69 cm (28¼x27").
• 2 stage prop Greek busts.
• Folding map of the Bohemian Grove, 1939. 40.8x68.5 cm (16x27").
• Folding blueprint of Jim Bravar design for Spring Jinks1990 with manuscript alterations and notes in red sharpie pen presumably by Jewell
• Collection of 12 photographs from the Bohemian Grove, most dated 1956 in negatives. Several document Grove Play stages, audiences, etc...
• Large folding plan of the 1989 Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree - Arena Shows/Stage Layout w/ Trees. With rubber stamp marked "Preliminary / Not for Construction".
• Photograph dated 1940 in negative with a sign reading "A W.P.A. Project Sponsored Production Camp / Supervision of W.P.A. Project No. 000000½" 12½x20 cm (5x8").
• 4 postage stamps from the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. With 6 wartime American stamps related to Federal Use Tax on Motor Vehicles.
• Engraved Bohemian Club soup spoon and assorted ephemera.

James Earle Jewell's collection of Bohemian Club ephemera. 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. According to an obituary notice published by his alma mater, University of the Pacific, James Earle Jewell "was the lighting designer who illuminated notable landmarks such as Hearst Castle, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. Personally, he had a passion for the arts and was a season ticket holder of the San Francisco Opera".

Includes:

• The Triumph of Bohemia: A Forest Play by George Sterling...Being the Thirteenth Annuual Midsummer High Jinks...Bohemian Club, 1907. Saddle-stitched illustrated wrappers. (Wrappers tearing from staples, some chips and tears around edges).
• The Sons of Baldur: A Forest Music-Drama by Herman Scheffauer...This Being the Thirty-First Annual Midsummer Festival known as the "High Jinks"...1908. Wrappers with color illustrated cover label. Printed at the Press of the Hansen Co., SF.
• St. Patrick at Tara: A Forest Play by H. Morse Stephens. The Midsummer High Jinks of the Bohemian Club 1909...Being the Thirty-Second Annual Midsummer High Jinks..., [1909]. Pictorial wrappers. (Some sunning, staining, and soil to wrappers).
• The Cave Man: A Play of the Redwoods by Charles K. Field. Bohemian Club, [1910]. The Thirty-third Midsummer High Jinks. Saddle-stitched wrappers. (Wrappers splitting from spine ends and tearing from staples, small puncture to cover and some staining).
• The Green Knight: A Vision by Porter Garnett. Bohemian Club, 1911. Vellum-backed boards with inlaid gilt cover medallion. Printed by Taylor, Nash, and Taylor.
• The Atonement of Pan: A Music Drama by Joseph D. Redding. Bohemian Club, [1912]. Paper-covered boards Printed by Taylor, Nash and Taylor. Signed by Joseph D. Redding and inscribed to [Edward?] R. Taylor. With Bohemian Club bookplate, embossment on title page, (1912 handwritten on spine in pen, also in pencil on cover, slight crack at head of front joint).
• The Fall of Ug: A Masque of Fear by Rufus Steele. Rufus Steele Sire, 1913. 11th Grove Play. Boards with paper cover label. Printed by Taylor, Nash & Taylor.
• The Fall of Ug: A Masque of Fear by Rufus Steele. John Howell, 1913. 11th Grove Play. Boards with paper cover label, jacket. (Front panel of jacket separated, some additional chips and tears).
• Apollo: A Music Drama by Frank Pixley. Bohemian Club, 1915. The 13th Grove Play. Paper-covered boards with gilt onlay of title and Apollo vignette. Printed by Taylor & Taylor.
• Gold: A Forest Play. The Book by Frederick S. Myrtle; The Music by H.J. Stewart. Being the Thirty-ninth Annual High Jinks... Bohemian Club, 1916. Cloth-backed boards, color pictorial cover label. Illustrated with tipped-in color plates from costue designs of L. Maynard Dixon. Printed by Taylor & Taylor, SF.
• Our Trees: Being Two Informal Lectures Delivered in the Circle...by W.A. Setchell. Printed for members of the Bohemian Club by John B. Farish. [c. 1916-17]. Illustrated with tipped-in plates.
• The Land of Happiess: A Music Drama by Charles Templeton Crocker. The 15th Grove Play. Bohemian Club, [1917]. Boards with color illustrated label on cover. From the Press of H.S. Crocker Company.
• The Twilight of the Kings: A Masque of Democracy by Richard M. Hotaling; Music by Wallace A. Sabin; Lyrics by George Sterling. Bohemian Club, 1918. Wrappers with yapped edges. (A few minor chips and tears to yapped edges).
• Life by Harry Leon Wilson. The Bohemian Club, 1919. The 17th Grove Play. Decorative wrappers with yapped edges. From the Press of H.S. Crocker Co.
• Ilya of Murom by Charles Caldwell Dobie; Music by Ulderico Marcelli. Wrappers with yapped edges. The author's copy with inscriptions by several Bohos including a signed holograph musical bar by Ulderico Marcelli on preliminary blank.
• John of Nepomuk: Patron Saint of Bohemia by Clay M. Greene. Bohemian Club, 1921. Wrappers with yapped edges. (Some small chips, tears and creases to edges).
• The Rout of the Philistines: A Forest Play by Charles G. Norris. The 20th Grove Play. Wrappers with yapped edges. (Chip at head of spine, a few chips and tears to yapped edges).
• Semper Virens: Music Drama by Joseph D. Redding. 2 copies. Bohemian Club, 1923. Printed by Schwabaker-Frey Stationery Co., SF. Blue wrappers. (wrappers sunned with some wear).
• Rajvara "The Dwelling Place of Princes": A Play of Ancient India by Roy Neily. Bohemian Club, 1924. The 22nd Grove Play. Wrappers with yapped edges. Printed by The Recorder, SF. (Some minuscule tears to yapped edges).
• Wings by Joseph S. Thompson. Bohemian Club, 1925. The 24th Grove Play. Illustrated wrappers with yapped edges. (A few minor tears to yapped edges, mild soiling).
• Truth: A Grove Play by George Sterling. Bohemian Club, 1926. Illustrated wrappers. With Bohemian Club bookplate, rubber stamps and embossment from the Bohemian Club library. The 25th Grove Play.
• Saint Francis of Assisi: A Pageant Ceremonial by Irving Pichel. The 27th Grove Play. Boheimian Club, 1927. Wrappers with yapped edges. (Some sunning, minuscule tears to yapped edges).
• Nanda: A Grove Play by Garnet Holme. Bohemian Club, 1928. From the press of H.S. Crocker Co. Illustrated wrappers. Bookplate of Leonard and Beryl Buck.
• A Gest of Robin Hood by Charles G. Norris. The 29th Grove Play. Bohemian Club, 1929. Pictorial wrappers with yapped edges. (Some minuscule tears to yapped edges).
• Birds of Rhiannon: A Grove Play by Waldemar Young. Bohemian Club, 1930. Boards, paper spine label. One of 1500 copies.
• Birds of The Bohemian Grove: Monte Rio, California by Joseph Maillard. A Friend of Bohemia, 1931. Pictorial cloth.
• Joan: A Grove Play by W.B. Garthwaite. Bohemian Club, 1931. The 30th Grove Play. Boards with paper spine label. (Mild soiling to covers).
• Sorcerer's Drum: A Grove Play. Bohemian Club, 1932. Boards, paperspine label. Bohemian club bookplate.
• The Legend of Hani: The Thirty-Second Grove Play by Junius Cravens. Bohemian Club, 1933. Boards with paper spine label.
• St. Patrick at Tara: A Forest Play by Henry Morse Stephens; Music by Wallace A. Sabin; Revived as the Thirty-third Grove Play Production. Bohemian Club, 1934.
• The Quest: A Grove Play by Wilbur Hall. Bohemian Club, 1935. Boards, paper spine label. (Joints cracked).
• Ivanhoe: A Grove Play by Charles G. Norris. Bohemian Club, 1936. Boards with paper spine label. The 35th Grove Play.
• Lifkronan: A Grove Play by Kenneth G. Hook. Bohemian Club, 1937. The 36th Grove Play. Illustrated boards. Printed by the Grabhorn Press.
• The Piper: A Grove Play by Dan Totheroh. Bohemian Club, 1938. Patterned paper-covered boards with paper spine label. The 37th Grove Play. From the Press of H.S. Crocker Co.
• The Golden Feather: A Grove Play by Waldemar Young. Bohemian Club, 1939. The 38th Grove Play. Illustrated boards. Printed by Schwabacher-Frey Co., SF.
• Playbill. The American Scene: A Grove Play by Carlton E. Morse. Bohemian Club, 1942. Saddle-stitched wrappers. (Booklet folded leaving a long crease, some chips and tears around edges). Ownership marks on cover.
• A Gest of Robin Hood by Charles G. Norris...Revived as the Forty-ninth Grove Play. Bohemian Club, 1954. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. Cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards,

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Condition varies. See online catalogue for condition notes; overall very good.