BOHEMIAN GROVE Greatest Men's Party On Earth John van der Zee 1974 1st/HC/DJ/EC

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Offering in EXCELLENT CONDITION...
"The Greatest Men's Party On Earth - INSIDE THE B
OHEMIAN GROVE"
by John van der Zee
A rare LONG OUT OF PRINT 47 year old book printed in 1974. VERY RARE and IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND. Hardcover with dustjacket. Stated FIRST EDITION. The dustjacket and all of the pages are in excellent shape. This is a withdrawn library book but you would hardly know it except there are small rubber stamps reading "Lake Forest Library" at the top and bottom page edges, there is some roughness to the paper on the inside front cover where there was a pocket affixed at one point and also a small white sticker at the top right corner of this page, and there is a hard to see embossed stamp at the bottom of the title page that reads "Lake Forest Library, Lake Forest, Illinois". See close-up pictures.
Has been carefully stored in a smoke-free and pet-free environment for many years.
Hardcover copies of this rare book are impossible to find. The only place anywhere on the internet I could find a paperback copy of this book is on Amazon. They have several priced at over 0.00 and one priced at approximately 0. and all of those are paperback copies so this hardcover version is definitely
PRICED TO SELL.
From the book's flyleaf: The Bohemian Grove is a closely guarded redwood preserve a hundred miles or so north of San Francisco. There the Bohemian Club - one of the supremely exclusive men's clubs in the nation - holds an annual encampment that may be, because of its scale and the participants, the most remarkable tribal ritual ever celebrated by the human male. Herbert Hoover, a dedicated Bohemian but hardly (one imagines) a man much given to hyperbole, called it the greatest men's party on earth. What happens when throngs of the most powerful Americans - leaders in industry, finance, politics, and the professions - gather each July beneath the towering trees and luxuriously rough it for a frenetic fortnight? John van der Zee penetrated the sacred precincts in the guise of a waiter. From his personal observations, from conversations with members willing to talk, and from his delvings into the curious history of the club (it was founded, with the utmost informality, by a bunch of carefree newspapermen), he has made a highly entertaining book. Much of what he reveals is funny; some of it almost passes belief; none of it exactly sinister. But the book's total effect - as we contemplate the superlatively successful American male chauvinist at play - is by implication at least a little disturbing.
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