HOUSEBOAT ON THE SEINE by Wharton, William - 1996

Newmarket Press, 1996. 224pp. Green hardback, DJ VG with price clipped, signed by author on title page, First Printing, "memoir, painter and novelist Wharton (Birdy) instead gives us literally the nuts and bolts of building a houseboat, along with generous dollops of humor and local color. As a struggling artist in Paris with his schoolteacher wife and four children, Wharton decided to build his own boat after visiting that of an acquaintance in the mid-1970s. He recounts the family's adventures in making their dream come true. They gave up their Paris flat and moved onto the boat, which docked 12 miles downriver from Paris at Le Port Marly. There they spent the next 25 years adding the finishing touches", . Signed by Author. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.