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The Book Club of California, 2019. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Cover is in great condition. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019. Softcover. Near Fine. Oversize, 8 x 11. Color illustrations. 1J. Sewn binding. A beautiful copy of this beautiful book. Firm binding, no marks. Infinitesimal bump top corner front cover, else virtually no wear.

The Book Club of California , 2019. Paperback. Very Good. The Book Club of California's 2019 keepsake. Clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Text and images unmarked. 4to. 51pp.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019, 2019. First edition. As new.. 4to, green linen spine, decorated wrappers, 52 pages. Profusely illustrated. A bio-history of the engaging San Francisco bookseller and botanical printmaker Henry Evans (1918-1990), who founded the Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press in San Francisco in the early 1950s with the assistance of wife Patricia and daughter Judith. Evans later became a prominent botanical printmaker. This monograph, the annual keepsake published by The Book Club of California, includes a checklist of all the publications of the Peregrine Press, Porpoise Bookshop and Henry Evans, Printmaker. It was handsomely designed by Jonathan Clark of the Artichoke Press. Many of the illustrations have not been previously published.