Chatto & Windus, London, 1883. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition in the correct first state binding, this UK issue preceding the American edition by a matter of days. 8vo. xxv, 561pp + xxxii publisher's (first state) catalogue dated March 1883. Pictorial red cloth, gilt lettered at the spine and upper board. Patterned endpapers. With a tissue-protected frontispiece, and title page decoration and over three hundred illustrations in the text. The spine cloth very slightly faded. Some wear to the spine ends. A good copy, crisp internally.
The author's memoirs of his life as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, plus an account of his post-war river trip from New Orleans to Saint Paul..
32 pages of ads dated March 1883.
- Binding Condition: Good
- Overall Condition: Good
- Size: 8vo (195 x 140 mm)
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