The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing September, 1867
The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing September, 1867

Author: Henry G. Langley

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-04-28

Total Pages: 878

ISBN-13: 9780365916017

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Excerpt from The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing September, 1867: Embracing a General Directory of Residents and Business Directory; Also, a Directory of Streets, Public Offices, Etc. And a Map of the City; Together With the Consolidation Act and Its Amendments, the Municipal Government, Societies and Organizations The Masonic Fraternity have made arrangements for the foundation of a library in this city. From the well-known character of those who have the enterprise in charge, it must soon take rank with the leading library institutions in the State. For list of officers, etc., of the different literary institutions in the city, see page 683. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 0520906071

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Here is young Sam Clemens—in the world, getting famous, making love—in 155 magnificently edited letters that trace his remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of The Jumping Frog, soon to be a national and international celebrity. And on the move he was—from San Francisco to New York, to St. Louis, and then to Paris, Naples, Rome, Athens, Constantinople, Yalta, and the Holy Land; back to New York and on to Washington; back to San Francisco and Virginia City; and on to lecturing in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York. Resplendent with wit, love of life, ambition, and literary craft, this new volume in the wonderful Bancroft Library edition of Mark Twain's Letters will delight and inform both scholars and general readers. This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mark Twain Foundation, Jane Newhall, and The Friends of The Bancroft Library.

The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing September, 1862
The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing September, 1862

Author: Henry G. Langley

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 9781333113612

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Excerpt from The San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing September, 1862: Embracing a General Directory of Residents and Business Directory; Also a Directory of Streets, Public Offices, Etc;, And a New Map of the City and County W These Pianos have taken the first premium wherever and whenever Exhibited in competition With the best makers of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Among the Judges were gottschalk, wm. Mason, H. A. Wollenhaupt, and other Musical Celebrities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1992-07-28

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 9780520906082

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"Don't scold me, Livy—let me pay my due homage to your worth; let me honor you above all women; let me love you with a love that knows no doubt, no question—for you are my world, my life, my pride, my all of earth that is worth the having." These are the words of Samuel Clemens in love. Playful and reverential, jubilant and despondent, they are filled with tributes to his fiancée Olivia Langdon and with promises faithfully kept during a thirty-four-year marriage. The 188 superbly edited letters gathered here show Samuel Clemens having few idle moments in 1869. When he was not relentlessly "banged about from town to town" on the lecture circuit or busily revising The Innocents Abroad, the book that would make his reputation, he was writing impassioned letters to Olivia. These letters, the longest he ever wrote, make up the bulk of his correspondence for the year and are filled with his acute wit and dazzling language. This latest volume of Mark Twain's Letters captures Clemens on the verge of becoming the celebrity and family man he craved to be. This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a major donation to the Friends of The Bancroft Library from the Pareto Fund.

Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 1
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 1

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-12-22

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 0520906063

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Roughing It
Roughing It

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 886

ISBN-13: 0520948068

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Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, and includes all of the 304 first-edition illustrations. With its comprehensive and illuminating notes and supplementary materials, which include detailed maps tracing Mark Twain's western travels, this Mark Twain Library Roughing It must be considered the standard edition for readers and students of Mark Twain.

The San Francisco Irish, 1848-1880
The San Francisco Irish, 1848-1880

Author: R. A. Burchell

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0520316908

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.