BAYSIDE BOHEMIA: Fin de siècle San Francisco & its Little Magazines
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 375 copies designed and printed by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen at their Black Vine Press, with the publisher's prospectus laid in. "...presents for the first time Gelett Burgess' charming and spirited recollections of life in San Francisco at the turn of the century, a period when he and a group of young friends - Bruce Porter, Willis Polk, Porter Garnett, and others - founded and edited a series of highly entertaining little magazines, of which the best remembered today is The Lark. The author's comments on persons and events of the late 1890's and early 1900's make his narrative a valuable (and extremely readable) item of San Francisciana." Introduction by James D. Hart. Tall octavo: 42, [1], [1, blank] pp. with 4 facsimiles (2 folding) of The Lark, Le Petit Journal des Refusées, Phyllida; or The Milkmaid, and The Wave. Original tan cloth binding, with brown-stamped titling. A very good or better copy. The Hundredth Book 87. Very good. Item #79080
Price: $100.00