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NY: Henry Holt. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn.. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, xiv, 314pp. Illustrations by Nancy B. Eskew and some other black and white plates. A history of steamboats on the Mississippi River. Illustrated endpapers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
PAGEANT OF THE PACKETS, THE by Eskew, Garnett Laidlaw - 1929-01-01
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Henry Holt and Company, 1929-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Solid ex-library green hardcover. Illustrated with frontispiece of Henry H. Sherve. No dj.
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New York, NY: Henry Holt & Company. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. (1929). First Edition. Cloth. First Edition Frontispiece of Henry Shreve . 8vo., 314 pp, slightly soiled & faded cover, blunted binding tips, a few worn & one cracked hinge .
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New York: Holt, 1929. hardcover. very good(-). Illustratrd. 311 pages. Thick 8vo, gray cloth (sun-darkened and a bit soiled; ownership signature and toned pages). New York: Holt, (1929). A very good(-) solid copy.<br/><br/>
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929 No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Author. Large Octavo. 314 pages with bibliography. Inscribed "With Good Wishes-- Garnett Laidlaw Eskew" on half-title. History of American riverboats. With 11 illustrations. Tan cloth with gilt lettering; gilt, blue, and blind-stamped decoration; illustrated end sheets. Light wear to head and tail of spine and to corners of boards; minor stains and soiling on boards; previous owner's name on front end sheet; text yellowed but not brittle. Binding is tight..
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H. Holt, 1929T. hardcover. Good. 1.7000 8.2000 5.4000. Stated first printing. No dj. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, bumped corners. Armorial bookplate of former owner, stamp, and minor writing on the front endpaper. Copy #66, signed by the author. Additional gift inscription on the limitation page, text from flap of dj affixed to the verso of the ffep. Pages tanned and clean.
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by Eskew, Garnett Laidlaw. Illustrated By Nancy Beatty Eskew
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1929. First edition, stated first printing, 1929. Illustrated in black and white. Gray cloth with spine printed in gilt and dark green, no dustjacket. Some edge rubbing, spine sun darkened, good hinges, sound text block, some foxing to the inner margins of the frontis plate and title page, pages lightly age-toned but clean, Pageants Packets stamped on outer edge of preliminary blank, no names or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Henry Holt and Company, 1929. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. gray cloth over boards. Gilt lettering in blue boxes on spine. Pages are a slight age toned on edges. DJ has a little wear on edges. Not price clipped. In archival cover.
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THE PAGEANT OF THE PACKETS
by Garnett Laidlaw Eskew
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New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. Light staining on front panel. Lightly toned spine. .
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The Pageant Of The Packets; A Book Of American Steamboating.
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New York, Henry Holt, [1929].. 1st edition. Cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, decorated endpapers, 314 pp. Lacks dust jacket, cloth faintly spotted, else a very good copy.
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The Pageant of the Packets; A Book of American Steamboating
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New York: Henry Holt and Company [1929], 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Large 8vo. [4], vii-xiv, [2], 3-314 pp. Bound in grey cloth with the title and the publisher blocked in navy cloth and embossed in gold lettering; grey topstain. Illustrated by a frontispiece portrait of Henry M. Shreve and by a few additional photograph plates. Decorations by Nancy Beatty Eskew. A Near Fine book with a contemporary owner's name written in pencil on the free front end paper and on the verso of the frontispiece.
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