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1 online resource (293 pages) |
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text file rdaft |
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(epub) |
| Access |
Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
"An autobiography of the bookseller, library collector, man of letters, and historian of the American West edited by his great-great granddaughter. 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."-- Provided by Freading. |
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Publisher metadata. |
| Subject |
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918.
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Historians -- United States -- Biography.
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Booksellers and bookselling -- United States -- Biography.
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Book industries and trade -- United States.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bancroft, Kim, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781597142823 (epub) |
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9781597142489 (print) |
| Standard No. |
9781597142823 |
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