My Life on the Mississippi or Why I Am Not Mark Twain.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 240pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn and rubbed. Item #52091
ISBN: 0316096741
Attractive and tight first edition of the Dubuque author's humorous recollections of growing up on the upper portion of the Mississippi River. Nice association copy, being one well-known Dubuque author's copy of another Dubuque author's book: Blue ballpoint "Gifford" ownership signature on front flyleaf of Dubuque-born novelist Thomas Gifford (1937-2000), best known for "The Wind Chill Factor" and other thrillers.
Price: $45.00