ADVENTURES of AMERICA 1857-1900 Kouwenhoven, John order A. Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, NY, 1938 First Edition

About this Item A pictorial review from Harper's Weekly, 255 (4)pp. bound in a tan buckram with pictorial illustration mounted, paper spine label, pictorial endpapers, a very nice copy in lightly edge worn pictorial dust jacket

Title: ADVENTURES OF AMERICA 1857-1900
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers, NY
Publication Date: 1938
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Book Type: Book

First edition. An informal history of the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century. With 250 engravings from Harper's Weekly done by artists such as Thomas Nast, Winslow Homer, C.A. Reinhart, E.A. Abbey, Frederick Remington, Joseph Pennell, and others, who perfected journalistic illustration. Binding worn at extremities. 200 pages. illustrated paper-covered boards.

About the Author,John A Kouwenhoven: Over the course of his life, Kouwenhoven served as the Director of Historical Files, Brown Brothers Harriman and Company, and as a Trustee for the Rhode Island School of Design, the Jennie Clarkson Home for Children, and the Vermont Forest and Farmland Foundation. He was also the recipient of the Officer's Cross from the Order of Orange-Nassau, the Netherlands. His last published work, Half A Truth is Better Than None: Some Unsystematic Conjectures on Art, Disorder and American Experience was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1982, and the manuscript of a unfinished work on the Eads Bridge was gifted to the Smithsonian Institution after his death in Manchester Vermont on November 1, 1990. Kouwenhoven's obituary appeared in the New York Times on November order 4, 1990.

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