ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FRONTIER & WESTERN FICTION

Mcgraw-Hill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0070655871 . Ex-library book, but still in quite good condition - laminated cover and usual ex-lib type markings - overall wear is light. DustJacket has some scuffing/light scratches, one repaired tear to rear. Light soiling outer edge of pages. Pages clean and intact. B/w photos. 365 pages. " This book presents biographies and critical commentaries for over 300 hundred authors of the genre and covers a century and a half; including, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Karl May, O. Henry to Zane Grey, Max Brand, Louis L'Amour & more along with chronological listing of all publications, motion pictures & radio/TV adaptation for the author's works.... ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Fiction about the old frontier and tales of the wild west constitute a venerable and exciting literary genre that is uniquely and indigenously American - and these classics inspired derivations and adaptations into other media such as motion pictures and televions. " (955) (NOTE: Due to heavy weight, extra postage will be required) .