Lighty margaret (8 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

21,5 x 15 cm. Condizione: Gut. 1. Auflage. XV, 1 Blatt, 563 Seiten Hardcover. Original Leineneinband mit goldbedrucktem Vorderdeckel und Buchrücken. Ecken minimal berieben. Seiten durchgehend leicht gebräunt. Vorsatzseite mehrfach gestempelt. Sonst innen sehr sauberer, guter Zustand. B12-03-01E|A82 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 690.…

Condizione: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Poor. Unclipped dust jacket edge worn with closed tear along most of the spine strip in mylar cover. Tight binding, solid blue boards with sharp corners, bright gilt lettering to front board and to spine strip, previous owner's name to front end paper, otherwise clean, unmarked pages throughout. From the library of Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, noted researcher, author and professor of education.…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood hardcover, no dust jacket. Clean pages, lightly tanned. Creasing at top corner, first 45 pages. Fading to cover cloth at spine, little tear at head of spine. 8vo. 563 pages.

8vo. x, [2], 321, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates. Dark blue publisher's cloth, small colour illustration of Shanty-Boat "Ark" mounted on front cover, gilt lettering front cover & spine, w/ d.j. cover art illustration by Charles Reed Gardner (1901-1974) of the "Ark" and Mississippi River boat (minor chipping head of spine, a couple closed tears, some edgwear), still VG/VG- copy, w/ former ownership markings on endpapers. First edition of this scarce, entertaining, and insightful account of a 1930 shanty-boat trip, down the Mississippi by two journalists for over 1675 miles from St. Paul, MN to New Orleans, LA, despite experienced Mississippi River men laying bets on how far the craft would get before wrecking on the River. They traveled for four months gliding past countless towns tumbling into ruin, stayed in lonely bayous and former steamboat landings, met hermits, escaped convicts, show-boat actors, old logging captains, moonshiners, and others along the River. Issued on the eve of the Great Depression, and the subsequent New Deal, this was one of the last memoirs of traveling the river before locks and dams constrained and changed the flow of the river. Rare in original dustjacket.…