A Widely Cast Net. Selections From the Work of a Veteran California Writer Chosen with Comments by their Author: Oscar Lewis
Published by Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1987
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.Dark and Stormy Night Books
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Condition: Used - Fine
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Hard cover, 4to, in quarter blue silk-like cloth over light stone paper covered boards, titles in blue to the front board and in silver to the spine. In orig. plain white d/j. Book design and printing by Susan Acker at The Feathered Serpent Press and Anchor & Acorn Press. Bookbinder Cardoza-James. Limited edition 400 copies. CONDITION: Fine, in a Near Fine d/j. ***American Author Oscar Lewis (1893-1992) journalist, novelist and publisher, was a founder member of the Book Club of California, in whose name awards for works of history and the book arts are still granted annually. This anthology of his writings includes reminiscences, several short stories, columns and travel writing, literary criticism, as well as selections from several books. The pieces are excerpted from the "Atlantic Monthly, "The New Republic," "The Outlook," "Boy's Life" and "The Argonaut," among other magazines. The book excerpts come from " Bonanza Inn" and his best-selling history about the advent of California's Central Pacific Railroad ,"The Big Four." This is Publication No. 205 of the Book Club of California.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Widely Cast Net. Selections From the Work of a Veteran California Writer Chosen with Comments by their Author: Oscar Lewis
- Author
- Lewis, Oscar; Bonnet, Wayne (editor)
- Publisher
- Book Club of California, San Francisco
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Edition
- Limited Edition 400 copies.
- Seller catalogs
- Fine Press, Literary Criticism, The American West
Dark and Stormy Night Books
Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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