GIDEON'S BAND A Tale of the Mississippi
(New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1914).
FIRST EDITION. A fine Romance set on the Mississippi River during the heyday of riverboat travel, the 1890s. The work is infused with a great deal of historically accurate and important information on the riverboats, the region, and ways of life a traveler would have encountered along the way. Item #26709
First edition. Illustrated with four very attractive plates in full colour by F. C. Yohn. 8vo, In the original red cloth lettered on the upper cover and spine in gilt. 500 pp. A bright and very attractive copy, internally fine, all very sturdy, fresh and clean. The cloth also in excellent state with only a touch of the inevitable minor mellowing at the spine.
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