Lowe E N 1864 1933 (8 results)

80 pages. Hardcover; H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Beige cloth soiled, three notations in black and green wax pencil on front board. Bookplate (institutional?) partially peeled from front pastedown. Text block is firmly staple-bound but rusted staples have pulled away from endpapers leaving entire text block detached from boards. Ink signature of W.C. Morse at top right corner of front free endpaper. Errata slip tipped-in at title page; another slender errata slip tipped-in at page 68. Department stamp with green wax pencil marking on title page too. Large color foldout map titled "Geological Map of Mississippi" dated 1915 laid-in at rear endpapers. With several b/w photographs inset amongst text. Prominent academic and geologist William Clifford Morse (1874-1962) taught at Mississippi State University from 1918-1934 and at University of Mississippi from 1934-1958 and also served as Director of the Mississippi Geological Survey.…

Condition: New.

Unpaged - [2], [12], [2] pages plus covers. Staple-bound booklet: H 20.5cm x L 15.25cm. Tan paper covers with some staining and soiling, light crease to front cover. Binding staples rusted but firm. Short closed tears at center fore-edges of covers and all leaves; light stains at top margins of early leaves but pages otherwise remain quite clean. A good+ copy of an uncommon publication. No publishing date is specified but OCLC and the Library of Congress online catalog cite 1912. Features title leaf plus ten pages of text in which geologist E.N. Lowe proposes aiding flood control for the Mississippi River by diverting the Tennessee River down the Tombigbee River via Yellow Creek and Mackey Creek in Tishomingo County in the northeastern corner of Mississippi. In essence this is an early proposal for what eventually would become the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Lowe's plan is not mentioned in John Barry's RISING TIDE which, of course, discusses Mississippi River flood control at length.…

Ex-library copy. i-xi, [1], 3-212 pages. Staple-bound paperback: H 23.25cm x L 15.25cm. Gray paper covers with slender mild toning along edges, stronger toning along spine with shallow chipping at ends, library stamp at top of front cover. Library stamp at top of front free endpaper and on title page. No other library markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. With Introduction, tables, 23 b/w plates, 15 figures, and Index.…

Ex-library copy. 208 pages. Staple-bound paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15cm. Gray paper covers toned at edges and along spine, past owner's ink signature and library stamp at top of front cover, spine head chipped with heel nicked. Edges toned. Library stamp at top of title page. Three foldout maps have library stamps on their blank versos. No other library markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. With total of fourteen maps and Index.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 30.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.