San Francisco As It Is: Gleanings from the "Picayune," 1850-1852

Book Description

Georgetown: Talisman Press, 1964 First edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. Quarto. 285pp. 16 plates from early photographs and prints, text illustrations; notes and references, index. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Derived from the rare files of the San Francisco Picayune, probably the enfant terrible of the early San Francisco newspapers. "This handsome volume reproduces the text of one of San Francisco's most important Gold Rush era newspapers beginning with August 5, 1850, and ending with April 17, 1852 ... This newspaper superbly documented not only the phenomenal growth of San Francisco but also news from the mines" (Kurutz). Original announcement laid in. [Kurutz: 361]..

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