The Saga of the Delta Queen
by Way, Jr., Frederick
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- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Cincinnati, Ohio: Young and Klein, 1950. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Stiff pictorial wraps in green tones with yellow titles in green banner, hinged, clean and unmarked, minimal wear to extremities. Cover partially loose from backing. Former owner name on title page. Photographs by the author throughout. Sketches by Floyd Berg. Pages clean, no markings. No publication information or publication date stated. A unique account of the voyage of the river packet Delta Queen from San Francisco Bay down the Pacific Ocean, through the Panama Canal, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, into the Mississippi River; her uncrating at New Orleans and the swift flight up the Mississippi and the Ohio to her home port at Cincinnati. Captain Fred Wray, a steamboat pilot for twenty-five years, started and finished the voyage. 128 pages. 5.5 x 8 inches. c. 1950, Young and Klein, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022744
- Title
- The Saga of the Delta Queen
- Author
- Way, Jr., Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Young and Klein
- Place of Publication
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- RIVERBOATS; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; CINCINNATI, OHIO; INLAND HISTORY; STEAMBOATS; STEAMBOAT PILOTS;
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