Bay Window Bohemia. An Account of the Brilliant Artistic World of Gaslit San Francisco

Book Description

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1956 First edition. Signed by the author. 248pp. 24 historic photographs. Index. Brick cloth lettered in yellow. A very fine copy with very good pictorial dust jacket. Excellent for an account of the young artists living in San Francisco during the two decades prior to the 1906 earthquake and fire. "This is a book about San Francisco in the sparkling years between 1890 and the Great Fire in 1906 when the city served as an intoxicating environment in which gifted men and women worked out apprenticeships to distinguished careers. San Francisco was home to (among others) Isadora Duncan, David Warfield, David Belasco, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce, Frank Norris, Gertrude Atherton, Edwin Markham, Joaquin Miller, Robert Aitken, Gelett Burgess, Will Irwin, and George Sterling" (jacket description). .

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