Carol & Jean Fitzgerald 2001 The Rivers of America A Descriptive Bibliography

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The Rivers of America
A Descriptive Bibliography Including Biographies of the Authors, Illustrations, and Editors

by

Carol and Jean Fitzgerald

Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE.  2001. Two Volumes. 1020 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing.

DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present.  Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

This remarkable, well-researched bibliography is the most comprehensive work ever published on the historical series of books called "The Rivers of America". This important series of 65 titles was published from 1937 to 1974, and most have been reprinted, some many times. Each book focused on one of the nation's major rivers or river systems and captured its spirit, folklore, and history as never before.

Carol Fitzgerald has written a very readable two-volume work that goes far beyond the dry reference work of most bibliographies. She includes insightful biographies of the series' sixty authors and fifty-three illustrators. Each original dust jacket is depicted in the text and some are illusrtrated in full color in the plate section.