James Adams Floating Theatre by Gillespie, Richard C

Tidewater Pub, 1991-06. Hardcover. Good.

Schiffer Publishing, 2009-09-25. Hardcover. Like New.

Schiffer Publishing, 2009-09-25. Hardcover. New.

Centerville, MD: Tidewater Publishers. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1991. 1st. hardcover. Tall 8vo, 288 pp. .

Tidewater Pub, 1991-06-01. Hardcover. Used:Good.

New York, NY: Alfred A Knopf, 1965 Book. Very Good. Hard Cover - Cloth. First Edition / First Printing. Octavo. xviii + 324 pp + vi, preface, list of 12 maps, 16 chapters with b&w plates, text with footnotes throughout, index. Stated First Edition. Binding tight, green cloth boards, spine letters intact, with very slight yawn. pages clean and unmarked - rough foreedged text block. DJ price-clipped inner flap and slightly sun-faded spine, very light wear to the upper forecorner tips and tail spine edges, & a 1/32" nick on the back panel. 5.9" x 8.6" green cloth boards in rust brown DJ. Closely narrated civil war action, described with footnoted sources...

Hardback. New. The boat on which Edna Ferber based her famous novel brought excitement and entertainment to isolated small towns up and down the East Coast in early twentieth-century America. The builder of the boat, James E. Adams, was a farmer from Michigan who taught himself to be a circus aerialist, started and prospered with his own carnival company, and, when retirement proved boring, decided to build a showboat. The book traces the history of the James Adams from its inception until its demise twenty-seven years later, a tale that includes fires, sinkings, a shooting, arrests, and several deaths.

Schiffer Publishing, 2009-09-25. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!