Lot 77
Grolier American Hundred
77. TURNER, Frederick Jackson. “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” pp. 197-227 in Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1893. Washington, 1894. x, 605 [1, blank] pp. 8vo, disbound (lacking wraps). Light marginal chipping to blank outer margins of title and a few other leaves, otherwise very good, preserved in tan levant morocco and brown board slip case and matching chemise. Book plate of Library of Eugene & Sadye Power, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Contemporary ink ownership signature of Edson L. Whitney, August 28, 1894.
First edition, the first printing in any form of Turner’s famous thesis, printed before the separate of the same year. Cf. Graff 4209. Cf. Howes T422. Grolier American Hundred 96: “`Without warning he set forth a new hypothesis, and then and there opened a new period in the interpretation of the history of the United States’ [quoting Frederick L. Paxson]. He was the first to see in the changing American frontier, the ‘hither edge’ of free land, as he called it, an influence unusual in history and formative in shaping American culture.” Cf. Streeter Sale 4288. ($1,500-3,000)
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