THE CAGED EAGLE AND OTHER POEMS, by GEORGE STERLING.

Published by A. M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1916. First edition, first printing, with the date 1916 on both the title page and copyright page, no indication of additional printings, and the printer's mark at the bottom of the copyright page.

Hardcover book, green cloth covered boards with gilt titles on front cover and spine, 5.5x7.5 inches, 168 pages.

HAND SIGNED by GEORGE STERLING on the title page..

GOOD condition: The front cover gilt has faded but is fully legible, the spine gilt has faded away, there is some wear to the spine ends, else these original covers are sturdy and doing their job well. Internally, there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown "W.R. Heyneman" (the bookplate has left a ghost image on the facing front free endpaper), there is browning / offsetting to the endpapers (as is the case with every copy of this book I have seen), otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and clear, with many pages still uncut at the front fold. A solid, nice copy.

About George Sterling (from Wikipedia):

******George Sterling, b.1869 d.1926, was an American writer based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea. He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His work was admired by writers as diverse as Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, and Sinclair Lewis.

In 1905 Sterling moved to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, an undeveloped coastal area, and soon established a settlement for like minded Bohemian writers. Carmel had been discovered by Charles Warren Stoddard and others, but Sterling made it world famous.

Sterling joined the Bohemian Club and acted in their theatrical productions each summer at the Bohemian Grove. For the Grove play of 1907 the Club presented Sterling's "The Triumph of Bohemia".

Sterling carried a vial of cyanide for many years. In November 1926, Sterling used it while at his residence at the San Francisco Bohemian Club. Kevin Starr wrote that "When George Sterling's corpse was discovered in his room at the Bohemian Club... the golden age of San Francisco's bohemia had definitely come to a miserable end."******

THE BEGGAR by GORDON STEEDMAN & PHILIP SANDFORD BOONE. The Fifty-first Grove Play of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco as performed by its members in the Bohemian Grove, Sonoma County, California, on the twenty-eight night of July, 1956.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by GORDON STEEDMAN on a blank prelim: "For Neil Stewart / The best of all clients who became so much more: a truly great friend / Gordon". There is a small bookplate label of Esther & Neil Stewart on the front pastedown.

Published by the Bohemian Club, San Francisco, 1956. Printed by the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco.

Hardcovers, cloth covered spine and illustrated paper covered boards, title printed on spine, 6x9 inches, 82 pages.

GOOD condition, the covers have some wear to the spine ends and corner tips, and are sunned at the spine; there is a small ownership label as noted above; otherwise just lightly used and still tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

A nice SIGNED copy of an interesting Bohemian Club Grove Play.

THE 1987 U.S. OPEN at THE OLYMPIC CLUB / LAKESIDE / SAN FRANCISCO, CA / JUNE 15-21, 1987. The Official Magazine of The Championship. This is a special hardcover bound edition, with the program bound in blue cloth covered boards with gilt Olympic Club titling on the front cover. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by FUZZY ZOELLER on the front pastedown. "Carl / Best Always / Fuzzy Zoeller (signed)". Likely inscribed to Carl Reichardt, as the book was acquired from the estate of CARL E. REICHARDT, b. 1931 d. 2017, who was President of Wells Fargo & Company from 1978 to 1983 and then Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors until the end of 1994. He was an avid golfer. Hardcovers with program bound in, 8x11 inches, 266 pages. FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

(1) PROCEEDINGS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CANADA... at its SIXTEENTH ANNUAL COMMUNICATION, HELD AT OTTAWA, ONTARIO... 1971. HAMILTON (Canada): Spectator Steam Printing House, 1871. Disbound from a larger work that probably contained other proceedings, there are 314 pages in this proceedings with the pages numbered 602 to 915 plus a title page and a 6 page index at the rear, 5x8 inches. Only FAIR condition. Disbound, as noted above, title page is almost loose, there is chipping to the fragile page edges, mainly on the first and last few pages, the pages are toned with age, the last page has much of its upper portion torn away and has a 3 inch tear, there are previous owner's pencil marks here and there throughout; nonetheless a complete copy of this interesting Canadian Masonic report from 1871. (2) PROCEEDINGS OF THE M. W. GRAND LODGE OF THE ANCIENT AND HONORABLE FRATERNITY OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND... Held at Charlottetown June 25, 1894. CHARLOTTETOWN (Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Canada): Haszard & Moore, Printers, 1894. Disbound, 5.5x8.5 inches, 47 pages. Only FAIR condition. Disbound, as noted above, waterstaining / shorelining to the gutter and bottom margin of most pages, chipping to the edges and corners of the first and last few pages, a vertical crease down the middle where the booklet was probably folded in half to fit into a pocket, pages are toned, there are previous owner's bright blue pencil marks here and there throughout; nonetheless a complete copy of this interesting Prince Edward Island Masonic report from 1894.