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Saturday, February 2, 2019

02-02 - Owen Wister

Hardcover


author/editor
Owen Wister
title
Lin McLean
series/number
-
publisher
Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York
year (pages) size
1898 (278)
source
INT
country
USA
cover artist
{unknown / unbekannt}
note
-
comments
First printing of the first edition. This is the first Western novel by the author who invented the genre, and therefore can be considered to be one of the first Western novels of all. 278 pages, plus two page publisher's adverts, plus 8 illustrations,  Bookplates of Adelaide Poeschel and I E Harrington to front endpapers.
Owen Wister (1860-1932) is credited with inventing the Western or "Cowboy and Indian" genre. His most popular work is his 1902 novel
The Virginian.



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