Mississippi Reader by Morris Wright: First Edition (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company #A299, 1962. Very Good condition. Original pictorial wraps (light cover soil on the white parts). 4.25" wide by 7" tall. The spine is square and flat. Original price present ($1.45). NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean, tight, and unmarked. A Paperback Original. "First Edition" and "A Doubleday Anchor Original" are so stated. Includes sections on: Natchez in 1820; First Steamboat on the Mississippi; Emigrant's Guide; Mike Fink; Shell Games and Sharpers; Explosion of the Louisiana; Walt Whitman - New Orleans in 1848; Nights on the Mississippi; A Cub-Pilot's Experience; Sounding; Melville and the Mississippi; The Cotton Kingdom; New Orleans, May 2, 1862; Vicksburg during the Trouble; Race between the Lee and the Natchez; Hannibal, Revisited; Bring Out Your Dead; Plantation Life; River Music; Negro Folkways; Down on the Levee; Hart Crane's River; Scott Joplin; Lanterns on the Levee ; Shantyboaters; etc. First Edition - Paperback Original (PBO). Mass Market Paperback. Very Good condition. Illus. by Lustig & Reich (cover design). xiii, 382pp. First Edition - Paperback Original (PBO). Lustig & Reich (cover design) (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. 8vo. 192 pp. Very Good, Paperback with sun-fading, staining, rubbing & edge wear; staining on edges of text block; shelf wear. First Edition.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 192 pp. Very Good, Paperback with sun-fading, staining, rubbing & edge wear; staining on edges of text block; shelf wear. First Edition.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Mass market paperback. Wrappers toned, very good or better. Anchor Original, A299.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 382 pages. First edition, first printing. A paperback original not issued in hardcover. Edited and with a preface by Wright Morris. Cover art by Lustig & Reich. Eyewitness accounts, legends and literature presents a shifting kaleidoscope of the river's history and moods over the centuries. Near fine book with the faint residue of a sticker on the front cover and slight tanning to the spine. A beautiful copy.…

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine Condition. First Edition. Paperback original, slight age toning. Housed in a custom clamshell box in red cloth lined with marbled paper. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 047382.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 192 pp. Very Good, Paperback with sun-fading, staining, creasing, rubbing & edge wear; staining on edges of text block; shelf wear. Signed by Morris on FFEP. First Edition.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 192 pp. Very Good, Paperback with sun-fading, staining, creasing, rubbing & edge wear; staining on edges of text block; shelf wear. Signed by Morris on FFEP. First Edition.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 192 pp. Very Good, Paperback with sun-fading, staining, creasing, rubbing & edge wear; minor foxing on covers and throughout; staining on edges of text block; shelf wear. Signed by Morris on FFEP. First Edition.