4 OSCAR LEWIS Bks SILVER KINGS Sagebrush Casinos BONANZA INN Bay Window Bohemia

Description: HERE ARE 4 BOOKS BY OSCAR LEWIS:#1 SILVER KINGS The Lives and Times of MACKAY, FAIR, FLOOD, and O'BRIEN, Lord of the Nevada Comstock Lode By Oscar LewisAlfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1947, First EditionHardcover, near very good condition, lacking dust jacketCONTENTS: Part One: The Setting Part Two: Mackay Part Three: Fair Part Four: Flood and O'Brien Acknowledgments and Bibliography Index #2 BONANZA INN America's First Luxury Hotel By Oscar Lewis & Carroll D. HallAlfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, Ninth Printing, March 1967Hardcover, very good condition, dust jacket is goodBonanza Inn is the story of the world-famous Palace Hotel in San Francisco, built in 1875 and destroyed by the earthquake and fire of 1906.It is, however, much more than the biography of a hotel. For the Palace was the perfect symbol of one of the most remarkable eras in American history. Built at the time when Nevada's fabulously rich silver mines were pouring millions of dollars each month into San Francisco, it typified the color and grandiose extravagances of the whole bonanza period.Through its marble-paved public rooms and its immense grand court passed all the great, the near-great, and merely flamboyant of a colorful era—bonanza kings and royalty alike, statesmen, soldiers, singers, and sinners of every hue. Here dallied Senator Sharon and Sarah Althea Hill; Lillie Hitchcock Coit romped through the corridors as she romped through life; Grant, Sheridan, and Sherman were feasted in the banquet halls; and the members of the Friday Night Cotillion Club danced their sedate dances in the ballroom. Here women preened and paraded; here men drank and diced and died.The story of the three decades of its life, and of the people who thronged it during those glamorous years, has been told in Bonanza Inn. Nothing is missed of the color and throbbing life of the place and time.#3 SAGEBRUSH CASINOS The Story of Legal Gambling in Nevada By Oscar LewisDoubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, 1958, First EditionHardcover, fair-good condition, previous owner's name/notations inside front cover, lacking dust jacketCONTENTS: Nevada Gambling is Big Business "One Long Gamble" Monte, Faro, and Fan-Tan The Customer is Sometimes Right "More Jackpots than Jack Rabbits" Know Your Percentages Reno: Biggest Little City The Poor Man's Monte Carlo Casino Career Girls Las Vegas and the "Rue de la Pay" The Nevadans' View of Gambling Index #4 BAY WINDOW BOHEMIA An Account of the Brilliant, Artistic, Gaslit San Francisco Oscar Lewis Preface by Kevin Starr Yosemite-DiMaggio, Oakland, CA, 1983, First Printing thusTrade softcover, near very good condition"On the pages that follow, an attempt has been made to tell something of the notable literary and artistic renaissance that took place in San Francisco during the closing years of the last century." USPS Media Rate postage will be calculated @ 5 pounds weightGRADUATE OF BOOK SEMINARS INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM HOW IT WORKS WITH US:In other words; the fine print!For those buyers who reside outside the U.S.,We are now enrolled in eBay's Global Shipping ProgramWe like to have our auctions completed in a timely manner.If we have not HEARD FROM the high bidder by the FOURTH day after the close of the auction, we will file an UNPAID ITEM DISPUTE with Ebay.PLEASE: Bid Only If You Intend To Complete The Transaction.THANKS for your understanding in these matters.We are proud to let you know that we try to be ecologically responsible, nearly all of our packing materials are recycled or reused. THANKS FOR BIDDING WITH US!

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