Literary industries
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2014.074Description
"A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a "history factory," he assembled a vast library of over sixty thousand books, maps, letters, and documents; hired scribes to copy material in private hands; employed interviewers to capture the memories of early Spanish and Mexican settlers; and published multiple volumes sold throughout the country by his subscription agents. In 1890 he published an eight-hundred-page autobiography, aptly entitled Literary Industries. Literary Industries sparkles with the exuberance of nineteenth-century California and introduces us to a man of great complexity and wit. Edited for the modern reader and yet relating the history of the West as it was taking place--and as it was being recorded--Kim Bancroft's edition of Literary Industries is a joy to read" -- Provided by publisher. "This is an abridgement of Hubert Howe Bancroft's Literary Industries, first published in 1890 as volume 39 of The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (The History Company: San Francisco, CA.)" -- Title page verso. foreword by Kevin Starr ; afterword by Charles B. Faulhaber. xxviii, 254 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm; E175.5.B22 A3 2013Lexicon
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Call Number: E175.5.B22 A3 2013
Spine Label: E175
.5
B22 A3
2013