In Our Second Century, From an Editor's Note-Book

San Francisco: Pioneer Press, 1931. Octavo in blue boards in green matte dust jacket; 454 p., frontispiece (portrait); 23 cm. Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. Signed by Author on free front-end paper; possibly ex-library with small DUP stamp on back end paper; faintest bumps to boards; light tears and wear to DJ edges, corners and spine; light soil and fading to DJ; else very nice copy; pages are bright and free of marks and creases; binding is solid.

Contents:Our first century's ending.--The Gold ring and the Tweed ring.--Political troubles, east, west, and south. --Suspension of the Bank of California.--The Sand lot and Kearneyism.--The Kearney-Kalloch epoch. --San Francisco's early dailies. --The "Argonaut's" beginnings.--Shop talk.--Early "Argonaut" contributors.--A roster of"Argonaut" writers.--Inventors and inventions. --High lights of the waning century.--The European bear-pit.--Notables of yesterday.-- The return of Ulysses.--The lecture platform.--Beecher and Tilton, lecturers and litigants. --The Bohemian Club.--Old-time shows.--Envoy.