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Pre-owned book in good condition, light cover wear, no handwriting or markings, no tears, no dust jacket. We ship all orders the next business day, with tracking. We note all defects and offer a 30 day return policy for items not as described.

Pages 138 pp.4to. Two piece binding, cloth spine with paper over boards. Limited edition 500 copies. Printed by Ward Ritchie. Illustrated. Prospectus laid in. Fine in plain paper dust jacket with title written in spine in red ink.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California., 1984 2021-06-09. First THUS. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, no DJ. Firm binding, sharp corners, no ownership markings, touch of foxing to fore-edge. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. 138pp. Quarto [29 cm] 1/4 black cloth with chartreuse green paper over boards, and a black ink stamped illustration by Rex Brandt on the front board. In the publisher's plain white dust jacket, with light soiling. Title written in pencil on the spine. Publication No. 177 of The Book Club of California. Five Hundred copies of "Baptism in Oil" were printed from the design of Ward Ritchie by the Castle Press of Pasadena.

Baptism in Oil, Stephen F. Peckham in Southern California 1865-66, Gerald T. White, San Francisco, The Book Club of California, 1984, 138pp., Super 8vo. First edition thus, 500 copies. Condition: Very Good+. Small owner's bookplate inside front cover.

San Francisco: Book Club of California. Fine+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited edtion of 500 copies. Printed by the Castle Press of Pasadena. Black cloth spine with light green paper over boards. Book is as new. No ownership or other marks. Includes original plain white paper DJ with very minor edge wear. ; Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 138 pages .

Book Club of California, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 138 pages. Designed by Ward Ritchie. Printed by Castle Press of Pasadena. Publication No. 177 of The Book Club of California. Limited to 500 copies. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in decorated paper over boards and black cloth covers. No dust wrapper. With 4-page prospectus from The Book Club of California with addressed envelope for ordering the book.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984. Limited Edition. Publishers Hardbound. Fine/Very Good Plus. Fine, some illustrations, quarter bound, black cloth spine with bright gilt title, publisher's chartreuse paper with bold black illustration of an oil rig on front board, No previous writing or bookplate, Limited Edition 1/500, 138 pages, BCC publication # 177 with publisher's white paper dustjacket.

San Francisco: Book Club of California. Fine copy in fine plain paper dust jacket. 1984. 1st. hardcover. 4to, 138 pp., Designed by Ward Ritchie, printed in an edition of 500 copies, With a sales slip made out to Jacob Chernofsy, former publisher of AB Bookman's Weekly, laid-in .

San Francisco: designed by Ward Ritchie & printed by the Castle Press of Pasadena for The Book Club of California, 1984. Hardcover. 138p., 7.5x11.25 inches, preface, prologue, epilogue, notes, illustrations, photos, fine first edition limited to 500 copies bound in green boards with vignette on cover and black quarter-cloth backing, gilt spine titles, in very good plain white dust jacket. Publication no. 177.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1984. First edition, limited to 500 copies. A fine copy, clean and unworn, in original plain white jacket . Original black cloth and green boards, quarto (7.5 x 11 inches), 138pp. 5 b/w plates. Designed by Ward Ritchie and printed at the Castle Press, Pasadena.

San Francisco.: The Book Club of California., 1984.. First edition.. Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy. . Octavo.. Photographs, facsimiles. Peckham a chemist, geologist and engineer was in Southern California during the tumultuous formation of the California oil industry. Important reference work. Limited edition of 500 copies. Very scarce in this condition.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1984 First edition. Limited to 500 copies printed from the design of Ward Ritchie by The Castle Press. Quarto. 138pp. Portraits, plates from photographs; extensive notes. Cloth-backed decorated green boards with gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. Includes Peckham's extensive correspondence relating to oil. The book documents the story behind one of the most controversial and startling discoveries made during the formative years of California's oil industry. Peckham came to Ventura's Ojai Ranch in 1865 to refine oil for the California Petroleum Company. Instead of finding fields of black gold, Peckham discovered fraud. A fascinating story..

4to. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1984. 4to, 138pp. Portraits, plates from photographs; extensive notes. Cloth-backed decorated green boards with gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. § Limited to 500 copies printed by the Castle Press designed by Ward Ritchie. The book documents the history of the formative years of California's oil industry. Peckham came to Ventura's Ojai Ranch in 1865 to refine oil for the California Petroleum Company.