Item #20427 San Francisco Adventures (INSCRIBED). Charles Caldwell Dobie.
San Francisco Adventures (INSCRIBED)

San Francisco Adventures (INSCRIBED)

New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1937. First Edition. INSCRIBED "This book is inscribed for Clio Lee ?, by her friend, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Fresno, February 20 1938". 8vo. 228 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (minor fading to spine; wear to extremities). Item #20427

"Nine short stories about a Bohemian baker and his interaction with other immigrants in San Francisco from 1916 to 1936" - Baird and Greenwood 674. These stories depict various adventures of Josef Vitek, a simple, peasant-like Bohemian baker showing San Francisco over a period of twenty years - in the pre-war days, in the days when America was fighting, and in the present day.

Price: $75.00

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