A History of American Magazines, [1741-1905]. 4 vols, I - IV.
by MOTT, Frank Luther
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- Hardcover
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Four octavo volumes varying in size, pagination & date of publication, all first editions, illustrated throughout, the first three ex-library in library bindings, one in dust jacket.
Incudes:
Vol I: 1741-1850. New York: Appleton, 1930;
Vol II: 1850-1865; Cambridge: Harvard, 1938;
Vol III: 1865-1885. Cambridge: Harvard, 1938;
Vol IV: 1885-1905. Cambridge: Harvard, 1957.
Volumes I, II & III display typical library markings including card pockets in two volumes. Volume four is in the original binding & price-clipped dust jacket which is faded at the spine, exhibits modest edge wear, & has a gift inscription at the front pastedown, withal, a useful set of an important treatise.
The author was professor of English & director of the school of journalism at the University of Iowa & thereafter Dean of the University of Missouri. Volumes II & IIi of this important set won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History. A fifth volume was published posthumously in 1968 & is not included in this group.
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- Seller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1921
- Title
- A History of American Magazines, [1741-1905]. 4 vols, I - IV.
- Author
- MOTT, Frank Luther
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Appleton; Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York & Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1930 - 1957
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Frank Luther Mott, Reference, American Magazines, Periodicals, American History, Illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference; Periodicals; American History; Journalism;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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