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Upper Mississippi: A Wilderness Saga (The Rivers of America)
by Havighurst, Walter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. Green cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dust-jacket, 8.25 x 5.75 inches). A true First Edition/First Printing with points specified in Fitzgerald bibliography. 258 pages with Index, plus "Rivers and American Folk" by Constance Lindsay Skinner unpaginated at rear. The second title in the noted Rivers of America Series. Rear panel contains blurb promoting first two Rivers books, Kennebec and Upper Mississippi. Bookplate of William Mason Howe on front pastedown, jacket is price-clipped, spine toned, remaining a desirable and collectable copy. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by David and Lolita Granahan. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005265
- Title
- Upper Mississippi: A Wilderness Saga (The Rivers of America)
- Author
- Havighurst, Walter
- Illustrator
- David and Lolita Granahan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- The Rivers of America
- Size
- Octavo
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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