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The Literature of Beguilement: Promoting America from Columbus to Today
by Jane Lenz Elder
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
72 pages with pictorial title, plates (some in color) and bibliography. Quarto 10 3/4" x 8") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Errata leaf tipped in. Preface by David Farmer. First edition.
This identifies some of the treasures of the DeGolyer Library with delight and surprise to fine many significant books brought forth for this exhibition. This exhibit considers the impact of a significant body of work aimed at informing and motivating Europeans to travel to and eventually settle in America. This exhibit aims to beguile viewers into a new way of thinking about a significant and extensive body of Americana: early works painstakingly printed and bound in vellum in the Old World, rare imprints issued by early presses in the New World, more recent material produced by territorial printers in the Southwest, or issued by the U S Government Printing Office, and promotional literature published with color photographs advertising business ventures.
Condition: A near fine copy.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H0114
- Title
- The Literature of Beguilement: Promoting America from Columbus to Today
- Author
- Jane Lenz Elder
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Southern Methodist University Press
- Place of Publication
- Dallas
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 72 pages with pictorial title, plates (some in color) and bibliography
- Size
- Quarto
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AMERICANA, bibliography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Colonial America;
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- First Edition
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- Errata
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- Tipped In
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Wrappers
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