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San Francisco's Literary Frontier

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Franklin Walker

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Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards (Gold Medal – Scholarship – 1939)

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Genres: Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS: 810.9 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature
LCC: PS285 .S3 .W3 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Special regions, states, etc. West and Central

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Languages: English
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Published: 1969
Genres: Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS: 810.9
LCC: PS285 .S3 .W3

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