DEAR LADY" : The Letters of Frederick Jackson Turner and Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper, 1910-1932
by Billinton. Ray Allen (Editor)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/New
- ISBN 10
- 0873280466
- ISBN 13
- 9780873280464
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1970. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/BRAND NEW. Linen boards/NF. DJ/Fine. Collection of correspondence bewteen between historian Frederick Jackson Turner (1861 - 1932) and Mrs. Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper of Boston. The two met while Turner took on teaching at Harvard and Mrs. Hooper was actively engaged in funding the Harvard Harvard Commission on Western History, a memorial to her father, Charles Elliot Perkins, and meant to aid in acquisition of books on the West for the Harvard Library. This collection of some 300 letters (more than of correspondence exchanged) is presented chronologicaly with helpful footnotes, makes for delightful reading and shed light on their interests over 20 years as well as concerns of their time.
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- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 011460
- Title
- DEAR LADY" : The Letters of Frederick Jackson Turner and Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper, 1910-1932
- Author
- Billinton. Ray Allen (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0873280466
- ISBN 13
- 9780873280464
- Publisher
- Huntington Library
- Place of Publication
- San Marino, CA
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Anthology/Letters/Correspondence
- Bookseller catalogs
- Journal/Diary/Letters;
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