The Pageant of the Packets A Book of American Steamboating by Eskew, Garnett Laidlaw - 1929

New York, NY: Henry Holt & Company. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. (1929). First Edition. Cloth. First Edition Frontispiece of Henry Shreve . 8vo., 314 pp, slightly soiled & faded cover, blunted binding tips, a few worn & one cracked hinge .

New York: Holt, 1929. hardcover. very good(-). Illustratrd. 311 pages. Thick 8vo, gray cloth (sun-darkened and a bit soiled; ownership signature and toned pages). New York: Holt, (1929). A very good(-) solid copy.<br/><br/>

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929 No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Author. Large Octavo. 314 pages with bibliography. Inscribed "With Good Wishes-- Garnett Laidlaw Eskew" on half-title. History of American riverboats. With 11 illustrations. Tan cloth with gilt lettering; gilt, blue, and blind-stamped decoration; illustrated end sheets. Light wear to head and tail of spine and to corners of boards; minor stains and soiling on boards; previous owner's name on front end sheet; text yellowed but not brittle. Binding is tight..

H. Holt, 1929T. hardcover. Good. 1.7000 8.2000 5.4000. Stated first printing. No dj. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, bumped corners. Armorial bookplate of former owner, stamp, and minor writing on the front endpaper. Copy #66, signed by the author. Additional gift inscription on the limitation page, text from flap of dj affixed to the verso of the ffep. Pages tanned and clean.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929. First edition, stated first printing, 1929. Illustrated in black and white. Gray cloth with spine printed in gilt and dark green, no dustjacket. Some edge rubbing, spine sun darkened, good hinges, sound text block, some foxing to the inner margins of the frontis plate and title page, pages lightly age-toned but clean, Pageants Packets stamped on outer edge of preliminary blank, no names or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Henry Holt & Co., [1929]. 8vo. xiv, 314 pp. Frntsp., numerous photos, illusts. Tan cloth, blue & gilt lettrng on spine (mnr shlfwr, slght bmpng 1 crnrs), w/ d.j. great art deco cover art by Herbert E. Fouts of cotton bails loading on sternwheeler (mnr chppng & edgewear, mnr sunng to spine), still VG/VG- copy. First edition, 1st printing, of the first real history of the Mississippi steamboat. The author’s family owned several steamboats, and his uncle was commodore Laidley, President of the White Collar Line on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

New York, Henry Holt, [1929].. 1st edition. Cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, decorated endpapers, 314 pp. Lacks dust jacket, cloth faintly spotted, else a very good copy.

Eskew, Garnett Laidlaw. THE PAGEANT OF THE PACKETS; A BOOK OF AMERICAN STEAMBOATING. Decorations by Nancy Beatty Eskew. New York, Henry Holt, [1929]. 1st edition. Dust jacket. Very good condition.

New York: Henry Holt and Company [1929], 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large 8vo. [4], vii-xiv, [2], 3-314 pp. Bound in grey cloth with the title and the publisher blocked in navy cloth and embossed in gold lettering; grey topstain. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Henry M. Shreve and by a few additional photograph plates. Decorations by Nancy Beatty Eskew. A Near Fine book with a contemporary owner's name written in pencil on the free front end paper and on the verso of the frontispiece.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1929. Book. Illus. by Eskew, Nancy Beatty. Good. Hardcover. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 314 pages. Black and white frontisplate of Henry M. Shreve, "the real creator of the American Steamboat." Sturdy library binding. Some library markings to contents. Surprisingly light wear. Tight and square. A quality copy..