Frank Morrison Pixley of The Argonaut
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, printed by Susan Acker of Feathered Serpent Press. 1989. Hardcover. 81p., endpapers facsimiles of The Argonaut pages, frontis-portrait, rubricated and illustrated title-page, foreword, epilogue, bibliography, illustrations, photos, fine limited first edition of 450 copies in openweave salt & pepper cloth gilt-titled. Mentor of Atherton, Bierce, Coolbrith et alia, foe of the Vigilance Committee (he upheld habeas corpus) - and antipathetic to Chinese, to Catholics (his defense of white rights stopped at "the Pope's Irish"), and to communists (commies with a lower-case C). Second in the Literary Profile Series.
Cat.No: 156816
Price: $25.00