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A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA SHOWING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION FRO THE CRUDE METHODS OF THE CANOE AND THE DOG-SLED TO THE HIGHLY ORGANIZED RAILWAY SYSTEMS OF THE PRESENT, TOGETHER WITH A NARRATIVE OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCES AND CHANGING SOCIAL CONDITIONS THAT ACCOMPANIED THIS ECONOMIC CONQUEST OF THE CONTINENT (FOUR VOLUMES)
by Dunbar, Seymour
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Four Volume Matching Set: Octavo, 9.1 in. x 6 in. 1529 total pages. Each illustrated with tissue-guarded frontis, and many black and white engravings, photographs, and maps. Blue cloth boards with gilt title to spines. Light rubbing to extremities. Most corners are lightly nudged. Bookseller's ink stamp to rear pastedown. A few wrinkles to the spine of Volume I. Spines and hinges tight. Seymour Dunbar (1867-1947) first worked for Scripps-McCrea, and then as a reporter for the Cincinnati Post and the St. Louis Chronicle. Without the apparent benefit of any college, Dunbar began to accumulate material for his history of travel. He did not begin to write until 1905... In 1915, Bobbs-Merrill published "A History of Travel in America," Dunbar's picturesque four-volume account of the progress of American civilization which included 400 prints. The history, which took 24 years to compile, even captured a poet's imagination. At the time Dunbar's history was released, poet Joyce Kilmer was on the staff of the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Review of Books. Kilmer's lengthy review praised Dunbar's work, characterizing it as being "distinguished by an unusual combination of erudition and charm." (from the Terra Haute Tribune Star).
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86689
- Title
- A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA SHOWING THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION FRO THE CRUDE METHODS OF THE CANOE AND THE DOG-SLED TO THE HIGHLY ORGANIZED RAILWAY SYSTEMS OF THE PRESENT, TOGETHER WITH A NARRATIVE OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCES AND CHANGING SOCIAL CONDITIONS THAT ACCOMPANIED THIS ECONOMIC CONQUEST OF THE CONTINENT (FOUR VOLUMES)
- Author
- Dunbar, Seymour
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, IN
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- American Railroads
- Bookseller catalogs
- AMERICANA;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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