STANFORD STORIES: Tales of a Young University

Field, Charles K. and Will Irwin

Edité par A.M. Robertson, San Francisco, 1913

Second edition, with two additional stories: "Bannister's 'Scoop'" and "A Woodside Idyl". This copy was inscribed by Charles K. Field in 1916 to San Francisco sporting goods executive and California historian Phil Bekeart, with a typed letter signed (TLS) from Field to Bekeart tipped in on the verso of the front flyleaf. Octavo: [xiv], 319, [1, blank] pp. with the color frontispiece, 5 photographic plates, and pictorial endpapers. Original cardinal cloth binding, with a pictorial title label affixed to the front panel and gilt-stamped titling on the spine. The top edge is dust stained, with some mild toning and faint spotting along the spine; otherwise very good. Inspired by such volumes as Jesse Lynch Wilson's Princeton Stories (1895) and Charles Macomb Flandreau's Harvard Episodes (1897), Charles K. Field, member of Stanford Pioneer Class of 1895, and then-Stanford undergraduate Will Irwin collaborated on what became Stanford Stories, which was eventually published in 1900 (Field had already published a book of Stanford verse, Four-leaved Clover, in 1899). "Those were the rah-rah days, the days of die-for-dear-old Yale or Stanford or Siwash," Irwin recalled in his 1942 memoir, and these stories reflect that atmosphere. Charles Kellogg Field (1873-1948) was an American journalist, poet, playwright, and insurance executive who, bored with the family insurance business in San Francisco, wrote on the side, contributing poems to newspapers and magazines and writing plays for the Bohemian Club. As a long-time contributor, Field joined the staff of Sunset magazine and became editor in 1911, a position he held for the next 14 years. In 1925 he began broadcasting a short morning program of good cheer on San Francisco's KGO radio; the following year he moved to New York, where as "Cheerio" he became a popular fixture on NBC until he retired in 1940. Will Irwin (1873-1948) scandalized the Stanford faculty with his pranks and song lyrics and was reluctantly granted a degree in 1899. He went into daily journalism, working at the San Francisco Chronicle before moving to New York in 1904 to take a position at the Sun, where he became one of the stars on a very talented staff - "one of the finest journalists ever produced by California," according to historian Kevin Starr. Two years later he left to become managing editor of McClure's magazine, then moved to Collier's, establishing a reputation as a muckraker. One of the first American war correspondents of World War I, after the war he focused on writing books, including a biography of Herbert Hoover, a classmate of Field's and friend to both. N° de réf. du vendeur 80002

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : STANFORD STORIES: Tales of a Young University
Éditeur : A.M. Robertson, San Francisco
Date d'édition : 1913
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : Very good
Signé : Signé par l'auteur