Literary Industries by Hubert Howe Bancroft
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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781597142489 |
| ISBN 10 | 1597142484 |
| Title | Literary Industries |
| Author | Hubert Howe Bancroft |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Heyday Books |
| Year published | 2014-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 254 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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