Walter Prescott Webb — The Great Frontier

London, Secker and Warburg , 1953. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first UK edition of this classic history of the post-Civil War West by Walter Prescott Webb. The uncommon first UK edition of this work. In the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper. From Walter Prescott Webb, an American historian noted for his groundbreaking work on the American West. In this interpretation of Western Civilisation he proposes the 'Boom Hypothesis' - that the new lands discovered by Christopher Columbus ran out by 1900, closing the frontier and giving the U.S. economic and ecological problems. In the original cloth binding. With the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with minor bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is very smart, with edge wear and slight sunning to the spine. Marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with only offsetting to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good.