Books on the Frontier: Print Culture in the American West, 1763-1875 - Hardcover

Clement, Richard W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0844410802 ISBN 13: 9780844410807

Verlag: University Press of New England, 2003

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages; Description: 139 p. : ill. , maps ; 27 cm. Subjects: Book industries and trade --United States --History --West (U. S. ) --History --Printing --United States --West (U. S. ) --Books and reading --Newspaper publishing --Frontier and pioneer life --Territorial expansion

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Reseña del editor:

From the end of the French and Indian war through the 19th century, the pioneers of the American book trade moved West, motivated, to varying degrees, by bibliophilia, enterprise and a spirit of adventure. Richard Clement offers a history of book publishing and trade on the American frontier in Lexington, Louisville and St Louis, where Joseph Charless opened various bookstores and print shops. In addition to the publishers and traders, this is also a story of the readers: the men and women of the Great Plains who yearned for the escape of a novel as eagerly as they demanded readable guidebooks; and the missionaries who used books to teach English and learn native American languages. Finally, it demonstrates how books took the stories of the frontier back East.

Biografía del autor:

RICHARD CLEMENT is the author of The Book in America (1996). A specialist in the history of the book in the West, Clement is special collections librarian at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library of the University of Kansas.

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• Verlag: University Press of New England
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0844410802
• ISBN 13: 9780844410807
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140