[MISSISSIPPI RIVER]. A group of 73 works relating to the Mississippi, including:

CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") (1835-1910). Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1883. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION with portrait of Twain in flames on pp. 441. Howes C480; BAL3411. -- DEVOL, George H. (1829-1903) Forty Years A Gambler on the Mississippi. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1926. -- FARIS, John Thompson (1871-1949). Seeing the Middle West. Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1923. Publisher's pictorial buff cloth. -- GROSVENOR, Johnston. Strange Stories of the Great River. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1918. Publisher's pictorial beige cloth; dust jacket. -- LEMAY, Alan. Old Father of Waters. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. Publisher's yellow cloth. -- MCDERMOTT, John Francis (1902-1981). George Caleb Bingham: River Portraitist. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. FIRST EDITION. -- PRICE, Willard (1887-1983). The Amazing Mississippi. New York: The John Day Company, 1963. Publisher's blue cloth; dust jacket. -- And 64 others. Together, 73 works in 73 volumes, various 8vo and 4to sizes, condition generally fine. Provenance for the lot: Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 19 November 2009). Complete list available upon request.

Property from the Collection of Perry B. Hansen