Book Club of California Publications

Available Publications

The Club now offers the convenience of on-line ordering.

There are now five ways to order Book Club publications:

4. Telephone (800) 869-7656

5. Online. To purchase online, click ADD TO CART for each book that you would like to buy. You may review your order at any time, change quantities, or remove an item by clicking VIEW CART. Click CHECK OUT to complete payment. You may use Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, a bank debit card, or a PayPal account.

Cyclone on the Prairies: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Arts & Crafts of Publishing in Chicago, 1900
[With an original leaf from the first edition of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz printed in Chicago in 1900]
by Peter E. Hanff

The Book Club of California is delighted to announce Cyclone on the Prairies: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Arts & Crafts of Publishing in Chicago, 1900 [With an original leaf from the first edition of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz printed in Chicago in 1900] by Peter E. Hanff, and the companion volume, A Bookbinder’s Analysis of the First Edition of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Michael O. Riley. These two works bring together important new scholarship on the printing and design history of an American classic.

Both texts were designed and printed by Peter R. Koch, assisted by Jonathan Gerken, of Peter Koch Printers in Berkeley, California. The text was set in Adobe Jenson designed by Robert Slimbach. The edition of 300 copies was printed on Mohawk Superfine by letterpress. The binding is by John DeMerritt Book Binding. The books measure 9 x 12 inches and consist of 152 pages for Hanff’s work (hard bound) and 56 pages for Riley’s text (soft bound). The Hanff work includes 77 color images. The price of the book is $375 (plus applicable sales tax and shipping). Requests for second copies by Book Club of California members will be honored in order of receipt, should copies remain after all first-copy orders have been filled.

Click here to view prospectus	Order form for mail and fax orders

Purchase Cyclone on the Prairies: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
and Arts & Crafts of Publishing in Chicago, 1900

Published price		$375.00

Sales tax:
San Francisco residents add		$35.63
All other California residents add		$27.84

Standing Order Member price * (15% discount)		$318.75
Sales tax for standing orders:
San Francisco residents add		$30.28
All other California residents add		$26.30

Shipping: Domestic $18.00	International $30.00
*A Standing Order member pledges to purchase all club books published during the year. Why not consider upgrading to a Standing Order? You will receive the Club’s superb books at a substantial discount.

Clio on the Coast
The Writing of
California History 1845–1945
KEVIN STARR

CLIO, the Muse of History, generously inspired many efforts to bring the spirit and practice of history to California in its first one hundred years as an American province. Kevin Starr’s Clio on the Coast brings to life the men and women who chronicled and interpreted the story of California through the period and social transformation of the twentieth century.

Clio on the Coast was designed by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press. The text is set in Janson and Interlude types, measures 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches, and was lithographed on Mohawk Superfine paper. It handsomely bound in cloth with French marbled paper insides, and includes a letterpress-printed dust wrapper. Enhanced with 15 historical portraits and 23 facsimile title-pages, the edition is limited to 350 copies each signed by Kevin Starr. This book makes an ideal gift for anyone interested in California history and fine book printing.

Click here to view prospectus	Click here to see sample pages of book
Purchase Clio on the Coast

Price		$150.00
Sales tax SF		$14.25
All other California residents add		$12.75
Buy online

Shipping: Domestic $10.00	International $20.00

James Mason Hutchings of Yo Semite by Dennis Kruska

"For more than a century -- long after his fellow Founders received suitable scholarly treatment -- the enigmatic James Mason Hutchings remained a frequently cited but ultimately shadowy figure in the annals of literary California. In this exhaustively researched, sprightly written biography and bibliography, twelve years in the making, Dennis Kruska has at long last accorded Hutchings the scholarly attention he so richly deserves. Rarely, if ever, in its long history of publication, has the Book Club of California published a more ambitious, necessary, or welcomed biography/bibliography -- or a more compelling example of the art of the book."
Kevin Starr, University of Southern California

Published price $275
Shipping Domestic: $10. Canada: $31. International Air Mail: $45.

View prospectus

Commemorative Broadside

This broadside was created for the Book Club of California on the occasion of the celebration of its new club rooms on September 13, 2010.
Dimensions 12" x 18"

Learn more / Buy online

Let's Play
by the Gearharts
Learn more / Buy online

Historic Travel Posters
Northern & Southern California
Learn more / Buy online

James Weld Towne
Pioneer San Francisco Printer, Publisher and Paper Purveyor
Learn more / Buy online

California in Relief
Thirty Wood Engravings by Richard Wagener
Learn more / Buy online

2005 California Bookplates.
Edited by Robert Dickover.
Eighty-one bookplates reproduced
in their original size.
Designed and letterpress printed
(in monograph format)
by Peter Koch Printers.

$30 each
$5 shipping
$10 international shipping