CALIFORNIA CLASSICS: The Creative Literature of the Golden State: Essas on the Book and Their Writers.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback reprint.
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1898). Essays on thirty-one writers, a blend of literary criticism, biography, history and geography, which look at these writers, focusing on how they came to write, and especially on their differing visions of California. The writers include Herbert E Bolton, Walter Nordhoft, William L Manly, Mary Austin, George Wharton James, Louisa Smith Clapp, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Gertrude Atherton, William H Brewer, Clarence King, John Muir, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Norris, Jack London, J Smeaton Chase, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Charis and Edward Weston, Idwal Jones, Robert Glass Cleland, Helen Hunt Jackson, Horace Bell, Charles F Lummis, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Harry Leon Wilson, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley and Raymond Chandler. Map. Updated preface for this edition by Powell, bibliographical note, index. xvii, 393 pp. ISBN: 0-884961842.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers with photograph by Ansel Adams (tight copy, no creases but sunning to spine)