Second Reading: Selections From the Quarterly News Letter 1933-1963

by Oscar Lewis (Editor)

Text consists of reprinted essays from 30 volumes of the BCC's Quarterly News-Letter, with contributions by Wilder Bentley, William Everson, Oscar Lewis, and others. Essays cover topics such as California's first printing press, John Henry Nash, the Grabhorns, and latter-day fine printing, as well as pieces on early California cookbooks, books about Western gunmen, amateur journalism in California, and other lesser-known subjects.

186 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1965

About the author

Oscar Lewis was one of the first historians to write seriously about the literary, cultural, and social history of the American West.

From his obituary:
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/15/ar...