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The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (Volume XXXIX) Literary Industies A Memoir

The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (Volume XXXIX) Literary Industies A Memoir

Howe Bancroft, Hubert

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Australia & OceaniaCriminologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9353801842
ISBN13: 9789353801847
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jul 1 2019
Pages: 818
Weight: 2.25
Height: 1.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before Bancroft became a name in Western history, he was a working publisher in a raw, fast-growing San Francisco. In Literary Industries, he turns the lens on himself and his trade, offering a bracing literary memoir of how books were made, sold, and fought over in gilded age America. This is publishing, up close. Part publishing history nonfiction, part personal record, this classic memoir reprint traces the book publishing history behind Bancroft's vast historical projects: the writing and editing process, the routines of compilation, and the practical pressures of the book trade and printing. It is candid about labour, ambition, and the machinery that converts research into shelves of authority. Readers curious about American literary history will find a rare insider's view of San Francisco publishing at the moment the Pacific coast learned to print its own story. It captures the mood of a city where commerce and culture collided, and where a single determined editor could shape what the nation remembered. For collectors and researchers, this volume also matters as a reference volume for historians and book history students, illuminating the habits that shaped American west historiography and the tone of nineteenth-century reference making. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Whether you come for the memoir voice or for the documentary detail, Bancroft's account rewards both casual browsing and close study, in a voice still alive.

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