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Comstock Commotion The Story of the Territorial Enterprise and Virginia  City News

Comstock Commotion The Story of the Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News

Comstock Commotion The Story of the Territorial Enterprise and Virginia  City

Comstock Commotion The Story of the Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News

by Beebe, Lucius

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Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1954. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The edges of the text block - especially the top and bottom edges. The dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing, nicking, several tears and holes and chips missing. "During and immediately after obtaining his degree from Harvard, Beebe published several books of poetry, but eventually found his true calling in journalism. He worked as a journalist for the New York Herald Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, the Boston Telegram, and the Boston Evening Transcript, and was a contributing writer to many magazines such as Gourmet, The New Yorker, Town and Country, Holiday, American Heritage, and Playboy. Beebe re-launched Nevada's first newspaper, the Territorial Enterprise, in 1952. He wrote a syndicated column for the New York Herald Tribune from the 1930s through 1944 called This New York. The column chronicled the doings of fashionable society at such storied restaurants and nightclubs as El Morocco, the 21 Club, the Stork Club, and The Colony. Beebe is credited with popularizing the term "cafe society", which was used to describe the people mentioned in his column. " (from Wikipedia) .

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Comstock Commotion The Story of the Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News
Author
Beebe, Lucius
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
Edition
1st Edition; 1st Printing
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Place of Publication
Stanford, CA
Date Published
1954
Keywords
Californiana, Western Americana, Lucius Beebe, Newspapers, News Organizations, Virginia City News, Territorial Enterprise, Californiana
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