Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts

A Stretch on the River.

BISSELL, Richard.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan cloth with brown spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 242pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Item #40981

Tight, handsome first edition of the first book by the famed author of "7½ Cents" (turned into stage musical "The Pajama Game") -- signed and inscribed by the author large and bold in black ink on front flyleaf: "To / Father Dew-Brittain / Richard Bissell." Upper Mississippi River fiction set on colorful steamboats, with fun d.j. graphics.

Price: $65.00