460 + [3] ad pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. 8½x5½. Original decorated boards. First Edition.

Valuable compilation of early California literature. The Zamorano Eighty notes that "Nowhere else can be found the wealth of material on the early writers and their literature that is given in The Story of the Files. There are more than a hundred portraits of California authors of note, and sketches from many of their writings. Also found in this book are histories of the famous early magazines and newspapers of San Francisco." Cowan (II), p. 152; Zamorano Eighty, 24.