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The Book Club of California is a non-profit membership organization of bibliophiles based in San Francisco, operating continuously since 1912.Its mission is to support the history and art of the book, including fine printing related to the history and literature of California and the western states of America through research, publishing, public programs, and exhibitions.
The Twenty-One Balloons is a novel by William Pène du Bois, published in 1947 by the Viking Press and awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1948. The story is about a retired schoolteacher whose ill-fated balloon trip leads him to discover Krakatoa , an island full of great wealth and fantastic inventions.
Kevin McAlea is an Irish keyboard player and songwriter, known for his work with Kate Bush, David Gilmour, and Barclay James Harvest and for writing English lyrics for the song "99 Luftballons", as the international hit "99 Red Balloons". [1] He also plays saxophone, guitar and uilleann pipes.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1980. Franklin, Colin. Themes in Aquatint. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1978. Franklin, Colin. Emery Walker: Some Light on his Theories of Printing and on his Relations with William Morris and Cobden-Sanderson. Cambridge: University Printing House, 1973.
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To handle book marketing and sales, he hired William E. Wood, a publicist with Hale Brothers department stores in San Jose. Wood knew a little about the book business because he had once worked for a San Francisco bookstore. Sterling published his book The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems under Wood's name in November 1903. On Christmas ...
Even though DARPA was prepared to deploy the balloons for a second day and accept submissions for up to a week until a team found all 10 balloons, the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the competition in under 9 hours. [2] A team from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), which located nine balloons, won second place.
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