This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...be published now in a few weeks. Wo make use of the first opportunity to state this fact, for we feel a near and lively interest in the products of western genius, and anxiously look forward to the time when they shall all be clothed in bookgarb by western publishers. The literary men of the West have always stood at a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...be published now in a few weeks. Wo make use of the first opportunity to state this fact, for we feel a near and lively interest in the products of western genius, and anxiously look forward to the time when they shall all be clothed in bookgarb by western publishers. The literary men of the West have always stood at a great disadvantage with those of the East, through the want of enterprise in our booksellers here. But we think we behold the dawn of a better day for them, and we hail it with much joy. One or two of our publishers, it is true, have heretofore occasionally accepted manuscripts, and published them at their own risk; but owing to their want of facilities to conduct their business energetically, whole editions of works so printed, with the exception of the few score of copies sold in two or three of the cities on the Ohio river, where they could be sent without any trouble, have cumbered the shelves for months, and then been transferred to the loft, where they have been suffered to remain unmolested, some till they were lost in the dust of time, others till they took fire, whether at such neglect or otherwise we are not informed, and burnt up, whether from spontaneous combustion, or some other cause, we cannot say. We perceive with great pleasure, indications of the near approach of better days for our literary men. During the past two or three years, several editions of western historical works, three or four volumes of western poems, and two or three collections of western biography, not to speak of thousands of western school-books, have been published among us, and sold readily; and we understand that a third edition of Mr. Drake's recently-published "Life and Adventures of Black-Hawk," is about to be issued. These things are trul...
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Add this copy of The Hesperian, Volume 2 to cart. $58.91, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
