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Hard cover 8vo, in grey linen-like cloth-covered boards with titles to spine blocked in gold. Endpapers are a facsimile copy of a 1893 copy of the titular San Francisco newspaper including illustrated logo and vintage advertising. Frontispiece portrait of the subject, Frank Morrison Pixley, editor, in addition to woodblock carved illustrations taken from from the original issues, which spanned the years 1877-1895. **CONDITION: Fine. No d/j. as issued. **From the prospectus: " When Frank Morrison Pixley founded" The Argonaut" literary weekly in 1877, he had already been a gold miner, San Francisco city attorney, state legislator, editor, real estate broker, regent of the University of California, state Attorney General, public speaker and editorial writer for San Francisco Chronicle...this book explores Pixley's personal and public life, as well as the "mysteries," breaths of scandal, which were headlined in the daily newspapers upon his death..." It goes on to recount how "The Argonaut" introduced a number of important Californian writers of the early twentieth century such as Ambrose Bierce, Ina Coolbrith, Gertrude Atherton, Charles Warren Stoddard, and more. Includes original prospectus. Provenance: Ex-libris Joseph C. Houghteling, California newspaper publisher and political activist. Book Club of California Publication Number 190.
Ref: FINE 9300
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