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A nearly complete run of The Grove Plays, performed at the Bohemian Grove north of San Francisco by members of the secretive, private Bohemian Club. 103 plays in total, a run that encompasses all but the first six plays (1902-1907) and the 1910 play The Cave Man. Sizes, formats and bindings vary. Overall condition is Very Good or better, although a few plays from the first two to three decades are in rougher shape with some sunning and wear, ownership marks, and dampstains. Spine perished from the 1917 play Land of Happiness. Program absent from 1979's The Flying Spear. A few copies are signed by camp members. Two or three have protective paper sleeves. The collection includes several seldom-seen early Grove plays. From the Foreword to 1910's The Cave Man: "The Grove Play of the Bohemian Club is the outgrowth of [The Cremation of Care] an illuminated spectacle produced annually among redwood trees in California. In The Man in the Forest, at the Midsummer Jinks of 1902, this spectacle first became a play, the text being the work of one author and the music the work of one composer. Since then, the music drama has been steadily elaborated." The elaboration included privately printed books by some of the great masters of West Coast fine press printing including John Henry Nash, The Grabhorn brothers, Arion Press and others. Members of the club have included Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, George Sterling, former US presidents George H.W. Bush, Reagan, Hoover, and Nixon; Joseph Coors, writer Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tennessee Ernie Ford (singer of "16 Tons"), and Hawaiian prince David Kaw?nanakoa. CONTENTS: 1908. The Sons of Baldur: A Forest Music-Drama by Herman George Scheffauer. Composer: Arthur Weiss. 1909. St. Patrick at Tara by Harold Morse Stephens. Composer: Wallace Arthur Sabin. 1911: The Green Knight, A Vision by Porter Garnett. Composer: Edward G. Stricklen. Bookplate of Allen Knight. 1912. The Atonement of Pan, A Music-Drama by Joseph D. Redding. Composer: Henry Hadley. 1913. The Fall of Ug: A Masque of Fear by Rufus Steele. Composer: Herman Perlet. 1914. Nec-Natama (Comradeship): A Forest Play by J. Wilson Shiels. Composer: Uda Waldrop. 1915. Apollo, A Music-Drama by Frank Pixley. Composer: Edward F. Schneider. 1916. Gold, A Forest Play by Frederick S. Myrtle. Composer: Humphrey J. Stewart. 1917. The Land of Happiness, A Music-Drama by Charles Templeton Crocker. Composer: Joseph D. Redding. 1918. The Twilight of the Kings by Richard M. Hotaling. Composer: Wallace Arthur Sabin. 1919. Life by Harry Leon Wilson. Composer: Domenico Brescia. 1920. Ilya of Murom by Charles Caldwell Dobie. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli. 1921. St. John of Nepomuk by Clay Meredith Greene. Composer: Humphrey J. Stewart. 1922. The Rout of the Philistines, A Forest Play by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Nino Marcelli. 1923. Semper Virens by Joseph D. Redding. Composer: Henry Hadley. 1924. Rajvara by Roy Neily. Composer: Wheeler Beckett. 1925. Wings by Joseph S. Thompson. Composer: George Edwards. 1926. Truth, A Grove Play by George Sterling. Composer: Domenico Brescia. 1927. Saint Francis of Assisi by Irving Pichel. Composer: Charles Hart. 1928. Nanda by Garnet Holme. Composer: Edward F. Schneider. 1929. A Gest of Robin Hood by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Robert C. Newell. 1930. Birds of Rhiannon by Waldemar Young. Composer: Edward C. Harris. 1931. Joan by W. B. Garthwaite. Composer: Charles L. Safford. 1932. Sorcerer's Drum by Daniel W. Evans. Composer: Charles Hart. 1933. The Legend of Hani by Junius Cravens. Composer: Henry Hadley. 1934. St. Patrick at Tara by Harold Morse Stephens. Composer: Wallace Arthur Sabin. 1935. The Quest by Wilburt Hall. Composer: Roderick White. 1936. Ivanhoe by Charles Gilman Norris. Composer: Harry I. Wiel. 1937. Lifkronan by Kenneth G. Hook. Composer: Ulderico Marcelli. 1938. The Piper by Dan Totheroh. Composer: Eugene Heyes. 1939. The Golden Feather by Waldemar Young. Composer: Seller Inventory # 140946983
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