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The California literary pamphlets.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 C1287 936c nos.1-6
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Its Keepsakes ; ser. 1936
- Its [Keepsakes ; ser. 1936]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--California.
- American literature.
- California.
- American literature--West (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 6 nos. ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Over an Absinthe Bottle.
- Selections from Prattle
- Itinerant House
- Afoot to Yosemite
- Night at Wingdam
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : [Published for its Members by The Book Club of California], [1936]
- Contents:
- No. 1. Over an Absinthe Bottle: a short story by W. C. Morrow, with a foreword by Charles Caldwell Dobie.
- No. 2. Poems by Nora May French, with a foreword by Sara Bard Field.
- No. 3. Selections from Prattle, by Ambrose Bierce; with a foreword by Joseph Henry Jackson, compiled by Carroll D. Hall.
- No. 4. An Itinerant House, by Emma Frances Dawson; with a foreword by Paul Jordan-Smith.
- No. 5. Afoot to Yosemite; a sketch by John Muir in eighteen seventy-four, with a forword by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt.
- No. 6. A Night at Wingdam, by Bret Harte; together with a letter from the author to Dr. J. L. Ver Mehr, and a foreword by Idwal Jones.
- Notes:
- Only 500 copies printed.
- Issued in six bi-monthly numbers, Feb.--Dec., 1936.
- "Each pamphlet will contain the work of an important Pacific Coast writer of the past, with a foreword by a contemporary Western author."
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has [5] single page typewritten letters and [1] postcard from the Book Club of California laid in.
- OCLC:
- 6672493
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