Villains & Vigilantes

by Stanton A. Coblentz

Hardcover; Fine; Dust Jacket - Very Good; 261 pp., index, bibliography, illustrations. A fine, tight, unmarked copy in a bright, unclipped near fine dust jacket. This is the story of the two San Francisco Committees of Vigilance, which took the law into their own hands in the hectic 1850s, which defied the power of the state and even of the National Government. Interesting reading!

Library Binding

About the author

Stanton Arthur Coblentz was an American author and poet. He received a Master's Degree in English literature and then began publishing poetry during the early 1920s. His first published science fiction was "The Sunken World," a satire about Atlantis, in Amazing Stories Quarterly for July, 1928. The next year, he published his first novel, The Wonder Stick. But poetry and history were his greatest strengths. Coblentz tended to write satirically. He also wrote books of literary criticism and nonfiction concerning historical subjects. Adventures of a Freelancer: The Literary Exploits and Autobiography of Stanton A. Coblentz was published the year after his death.