DDC/MDS
917.94 |
Publication
New York : Hastings house, 1939.
Original publication date
1939
Description
Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, "anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether habit-forming." Describing the history, culture, and roadside attractions of the 1930's, the WPA Guide to California features some of the very best anonymous literature of its era, with writing by luminaries such as San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth, composer-writer- hobo Harry Partch, and authors Tillie Olsen and Kenneth Patchen.
Status
Available
Call number
Series
Collection
Physical description
xxxi, 713 p.; 21 cm
Local notes
6th printing
very good dust jacket
!Six-guns 31
!Herd 44
!Brewer 573
very good dust jacket
!Six-guns 31
!Herd 44
!Brewer 573
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