Burlingame Ballads

Brewer, Wheaton Hale; Douglas, George (foreword)

Published by Burlingame Publishing Company, Burlingame, California, 1920

About this Item

Burlingame, California: Burlingame Publishing Company, 1920. 19 pp. 16.5 x 12 cm. Brown paper wraps with titling in black on front cover. Some bumping to corners with resulting light creasing to upper corner of front cover, and bottom corner of rear cover. Bumping and light creasing to upper corner of text block. Some rusting to staples. Wheaton Hale Brewer was the atheist son of an Episcopal minister, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1919. He was a student of Witter Bynner, a Professor of Oral English, whose teaching contract the University refused to renew due to either his flaunting of the rules by offering alcohol to students, or by his homosexuality. Brewer and a number of other students wrote and put together a book of poetry in honor of Bynner entitled W.B. in California. The following year Brewer married for the first time and produced this booklet of poems glorifying the town of Burlingame. Although Brewer never turned to writing full-time, he did continue to write poetry for the rest of his life. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Seller Inventory # 626059

Bibliographic Details

Title: Burlingame Ballads

Publisher: Burlingame Publishing Company, Burlingame, California

Publication Date: 1920

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.