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Nearly complete collection of Grove Plays
Nearly complete collection of Grove Plays
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Heading: (Bohemian Club)
Author:
Title: 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 members.
1926. Truth, A Grove Play by George Sterling. Composer: Domenico Brescia. Ownership marks.
1927. Saint Francis of Assisi by Irving Pichel. Composer: Charles Hart. Wrappers. Gift inscription.
1928. Nanda by Garnet Holme. Composer: Edward F. Schneider. Pictorial wrappers. With camp member signatures.
1929. A Gest of Robin Hood by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Robert C. Newell. Pictorial wrappers. With several camp member signatures and a few sketches.
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 and inscribed by W.B. Garthwaite. Bob Bullard‘s copy (cast member) with camp member signatures. Chips and tears to spine panel, top section lifting).
1932. Sorcerer‘s Drum by Daniel W. Evans. Composer: Charles Hart. Ownership marks.
1933. The Legend of Hani by Junius Cravens. Composer: Henry Hadley. Boards with paper spine label. Signed by the author and the composer with further camp member signatures. Tear to spine panel toward heel with section lifting.
1934. St. Patrick at Tara by Harold Morse Stephens. Composer: Wallace Arthur Sabin. Boards, paper spine label. Ownership marks.
1935. The Quest by Wilburt Hall. Composer: Roderick White. 2 copies. With 3 vintage real picture postcards laid in. Ownership marks.
1936. Ivanhoe by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Harry I. Wiel. Boards, paper spine label. Camp member signatures.
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 author. Camp member signatures.
1939. The Golden Feather by Waldemar Young. Composer: Uda Waldrop. Ownership marks.
1940. Saul by Benjamin Allen Purrington. Composer: Charles Hart. Ownership marks with caricature.
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. Camp member signatures.
1947. The Yester-Years (a compilation of past Grove Play scenes). Camp member signatures.
1948. Maternus by Kenneth Ferguson. Composer: Wendell Otey. Signed and inscribed by the author.
1949. The Cosmic Jest by C. B. Kelland. Composer: Frank R. Denke. With several camp member or cast signatures. 3 laid in photographs and further ephemera including a fake mustache.
1950. Tetecan by Howard A. Muckle. Composer: Hugh D. Brown. Several camp member signatures.
1951. Fools in the Forest by Dan Totheroh. Composer: Peter Heyes. Gift inscription, ownership marks.
1952. Tandem Triumphans by Alexander T. Case. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli. Gift inscription.
1953. A Romany Legend by Harris Allen. Composer: Antonio de Grassi. (Front hinge starting).
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. 2 copies. 1 copy bound without the first signature. Ownership marks in both copies.
1956. The Beggar by Gordon Steedman. Composer: Philip Boon. Ownership marks.
1957. Diablo by Bauer E. Kramer. Composer: Frank R. Denke.
1958. Aloha Oe by Earle C. Anthony. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli.
1959. Cortez by Howard A. Muckle. Composer: Hugh D. Brown. Signed by Howard A. Muckle. Several camp member inscriptions.
1960. Rip Van Winkle by Dan Totheroh. Composer: Charles Hart.
1961. A Soldier and Mr. Lincoln by Alexander T. Case. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli. With Cast of Characters and errata. Ownership marks.
1962. Agincourt by True Tourtillot. Composer: Robert B. England. Gift inscription.
1964. The Buccaneers: a Grove Play based on Robert Louis Stevenson‘s Treasure Island by David Bickersteth Magee. Composer: Leon C. Radsliff. Signed and inscribed by the author.
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.
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.
1996. Runnymede by John Brent Mills. Composer: Allyn Ferguson.
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.
2004. Concord Fight by Paul Downey. Composer: Nolan Gasser.
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.
2007. Leprechaun by Mark W. Cleary. Composer: Richard B. Evans.
2008. The Count of Monte Cristo by Charles L. Morey.
2009. Gaijin by David Pettus. Composer: Greg Pliska.
2010. Atlantis by Kenneth B. Baggott. Composer: Brett Strader.
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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