My San Francisco, a wayward biography / by Gertrude Atherton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

San Francisco (Calif.)--History.

San Francisco (Calif.).

San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

334 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis ; New York : The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, [1946]

Contents:

If

Hills and valleys

Here, there and everywhere

Romantic backgrounds

San Francisco bookstores

A few of our illustrious dead

Our literati

Some of our best citizens

Clubdom

California labor school

Historic banks of San Francisco

Yes, we have slums

The intermediate state

San Francisco builds her future.

Notes:

With half-title.

"First edition."

"Copyright, 1946, by Gertrude Atherton."

"It would be a wayward biography all right, but I concluded to begin with a general description of the city for the benefit of those who had never seen her, and to write a preliminary chapter in the form of a short story to demonstrate how close California came to having a history of another sort and a lamentable one. After that was accomplished I wrote as the subjects occured to me. There is little continuity, and in some cases it may read like a memoir, for I had had personal contact with certain of those aspects and phases."--Preface.

Includes index.

Price from dust-jacket: $3.50.

Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine.

Local Notes:

Culture Class collection copy has dust-jacket retained.

OCLC:

1386413