The Voice of the Old Frontier
Published on 29. January 1949
Book
Hardback
510 pages
978-1-5128-2011-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains the three lectures R. W. G. Vail delivered in the fall of 1945, in connection with his A. S. Rosenbach Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, supplemented by descriptions of 1300 bibliographical items covering the North American frontier literature over the period 1542 to 1800.
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Edition
Reprint 2016 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
897 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-2011-9 (9781512820119)
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Person
R. W. G Vail was Director of The New-York Historical Society, Editor of Sabin's Dictionary, and President of the Bibliographical Society of America. In 1945-46 he held the Fellowship in Bibliography founded in 1930 by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach at the University of Pennsylvania.