Pioneer Western Playbills

[San Francisco, Ca]1951, 1953,1954,1959, 1960: The Book Club of California. Quarto. Each of the six keepsake collections consist of 12 pieces, each with a facsimile playbill within, except for Mail bag and Firehouses which have printed sheets rather than inserting a facsimile insert. Each of the 12 subjects are in chemises and housed within ¼ black and blue paper slipcase, each with raised bands, and black labels gilt. The early transportation is housed within a cloth covered slipcase. A fine set in very good slipcases of which a few do have some light spotting on cloth. #1. Pioneer Western Playbills, 1951, edited by Frank L, Fenton, limited to 850 copies. #2. Pictorial Humor of the Gold Rush, 1953, edited by Carl I. Wheat, no limitation stated. #3. Early transportation in southern California, 1954, edited by Robert J. Woods, no limitation stated. Does lack one insert in the "Orange Dummy." #4. California Sheet Music Covers, 1959. No editor or limitation stated. #5. Early California Mail Bag, 1960. Carl Wheat, Edgar B Jessup, M.C. Nathan and Henry H. Clifford, editors. No limitation stated. #6. Early California Firehouses and Equipment, 1961, Albert Shumate, editor, no limitation stated. A significant collection spans six years, representing some of the most important writings, publications, art work and other areas of fine printing in the California West.