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Signed Owen Wister 1901 Lin McLean First Western Novel Hardcover
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Description:
Up For Sale Today is
Lin McLean
by
Owen Wister
Hardcover. 8vo. Harper & Brothers. 1901. 268 pgs. Illustrated with Black & White Plates. Later Printing. Signed and inscribed by Owen Wister on the FFEP.
Bound in cloth boards with gilt titles present. Boards in Good shape with shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Foxing Present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.
From the bestselling author of The Virginian comes Lin McLean, Wister's first novel, about a young cowboy from the Wind River country in Wyoming who tires of the dust and hard life and heads east to Boston to seek his fortune. In this novel after the young hero's first adventure with his elder brother and the bishop, a plot begins with the entrance of the biscuit-shooter, and steadily proceeds through climax and catastrophe to resolution.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian and a biography of American Civil War Lt. Gen. and 18th President Ulysses S. Grant.
Wister had spent several summers out in the American West, making his first trip to Territory of Wyoming in 1885, planning to shoot big game, fish trout, meet the Indians, and spend nights in the wild. Like his best friend Teddy Roosevelt, Wister was fascinated with the culture, lore and terrain of the region. He was "...struck with wonder and delight, had the eye to see and the talent to portray the life unfolding in America. After six journeys [into the dying "wild west"] for pleasure, he gave up the profession of law...," and became the writer he is better known as. On an 1893 visit to Yellowstone, Wister met the western artist Frederic Remington; who remained a lifelong friend.
When he started writing, he naturally inclined towards fiction set on the western frontier. Wister's most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian, a complex mixture of person(s), places and events dramatized from experience, word of mouth, and his own imagination ultimately creating the cowboy who is was natural aristocrat, set against a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War and taking the side of the large landowners. This is widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel and was reprinted fourteen times in eight months; it stands as one of the top 50 best-selling works of fiction, and is considered by Hollywood experts the basis for the modern fictional cowboy portrayed in literature, film and television.
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Abbreviations |
Leaves |
Pages |
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cm |
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| folio |
2º or fo |
2 |
4 |
12 × 19 |
30.5 × 48 |
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| quarto |
4º or 4to |
4 |
8 |
9½ × 12 |
24 × 30.5 |
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| octavo |
8º or 8vo |
8 |
16 |
6 × 9 |
15 × 23 |
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| duodecimo or twelvemo |
12º or 12mo |
12 |
24 |
5 × 7⅜ |
12.5 × 19 |
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| sextodecimo or sixteenmo |
16º or 16mo |
16 |
32 |
4 × 6¾ |
10 × 17 |
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| octodecimo or eighteenmo |
18º or 18mo |
18 |
36 |
4 × 6½ |
10 × 16.5 |
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| trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo |
32º or 32mo |
32 |
64 |
3½ × 5½ |
9 × 14 |
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| quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo |
48º or 48mo |
48 |
96 |
2½ × 4 |
6.5 × 10 |
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| sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo |
64º or 64mo |
64 |
128 |
2 × 3 |
5 × 7.5 |
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