Showboats: The History of an American Institution.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1954. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. x, 324pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and couple tiny edge chips. Item #44003

Quite tight and handsome first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "delightful and authoritative record of America's showboats, from the first one, launched in 1831, to the last...."

Price: $35.00

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