Dat Rivaar Metabatchuan: and other Outdoor Verse
by Roberts, Frank C
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Tuxedo Park, New York, United States
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About This Item
N.p.: Privately printed, 1924. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 18 cm; 65 pages, half-tone portrait frontispiece and 12 half-tone plates. Bound in flexible leather. Mild wear. Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Naval Commander Eugene E. Wilson (1904-1970) at the Philadelphia Club, January 22, 1953. Ex-libris of Eugene E. Wilson Collection of the United States Naval Academy Library. (The Nimitz Library has declined ownership.)
Collection of verse written to approximate the accented English of French-Indian voyageurs and coureurs du bois, or, as the author states in his introductory note, "half-breed Indian guides." The Francophone pronounciation is represented in the orthography, so interdental fricatives (th-sounds) are written as "d," final consonants are dropped, and the sound of "er" in "water" is made long: "An' den dere air de rapides... Dey make de rivaar music...." Accompanied by the author's photographs of Canadian lakes and forest. OCLC locates only four copies: Princeton, Brown, Alberta, and Toronto.
Collection of verse written to approximate the accented English of French-Indian voyageurs and coureurs du bois, or, as the author states in his introductory note, "half-breed Indian guides." The Francophone pronounciation is represented in the orthography, so interdental fricatives (th-sounds) are written as "d," final consonants are dropped, and the sound of "er" in "water" is made long: "An' den dere air de rapides... Dey make de rivaar music...." Accompanied by the author's photographs of Canadian lakes and forest. OCLC locates only four copies: Princeton, Brown, Alberta, and Toronto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5531
- Title
- Dat Rivaar Metabatchuan
- Author
- Roberts, Frank C
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Privately printed
- Place of Publication
- N.p.
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Voyageurs Coureurs du bois Canada Dialect verse
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