Literary industries : chasing a vanishing West / Hubert Howe Bancroft ; an abridged edition by Kim Bancroft ; foreword by Kevin Starr ; afterword by Charles B. Faulhaber.
Publisher:
Heyday,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xxviii, 254 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
"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. With a new subtitle and edited to focus on Bancroft's autobiography. Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245) and index.
Contents:
The field -- The atmosphere -- Springs and little brooks -- The country boy becomes a bookseller -- Hail California! Esto perpetua! -- The house of H. H. Bancroft and Company -- From bibliopolist to bibliophile -- The library -- Desperate attempts at great things -- A literary workshop -- Some of my assistants -- My first book -- The perils of publishing -- A literary pilgrim -- The two generals -- Italian strategy -- Alvarado -- Close of the Cerruti-Vallejo campaign -- Home -- San Francisco archives -- Historic researches in the South -- Historic explorations northward -- Further library detail -- My method of writing history -- Further ingatherings -- Preliminary and supplemental volumes -- Body and mind -- Expeditions to Mexico -- Toward the end -- Burned out! -- The History Company and The Bancroft Company.
Summary:
"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 ... In 1890 he published an eight-hundred-page autobiography ... [which] 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 [explores the remarkable person who was her great-great-grandfather]"-- Provided by publisher.
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