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New York: E. P. Dutton, 1945. First Edition . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Alice Caddy. 308 pp. An ex-library copy with the expected markings. The cover edges are scuffed, and the book is a bit cocked. The spine titles have been rewritten. The binding is tight and the text is clean.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1945. 8vo. Black cloth covered boards with gold titles and decoration. Good. Gift inscription to FFEP, light toning to interior pages.. Sketches by Alice Caddy.

E.P. Dutton & Company, inc, 1945T. hardcover. Good. 1.2000 8.1000 5.7000. Cover has minor wear/tear. Pages are clean/intact.\r\n

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1945. Minor shelf wear on cover. Mild discoloration on top and bottom page ends.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Caddy, Alice. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1947. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Alice Caddy. 308 pp. Light rubbing to the cover edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1945. Jacket is in pieces, laid in. Black cloth boards have light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. Illus. by Caddy, Alice. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. Good. HB, 1945, 1st edition. Ships next day. Book is in good shape, no tears, scribbles, highlighting or underlining, ex-library book, has a mark on the spine, has a pocket, has some writing on the inside front cover, has parts of the dj glued inside, a little general wear, from a smoke-free environment.

E.P. Dutton & Company, 1945 This is a 3rd printing..previous owner's name has been blacked out on inside front cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Alice Caddy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dutton, 1945. Hardcover. Good. 1945. Third Printing. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt decorations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed and water damaged.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. Book. Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. 1945, 308pp, with drawings by Alice Caddy. Light wear, else G. The author, (1895-1984), born in Covington, Kentucky, was the state's premier writer of fiction about rivers and boats and the people who work on them. Alice Caddy was his wife and illustrator for fifty years. This book is about the adventures of Little Doc, the Mississippi River pilot, on Africa's Congo River, and his eventual return home..

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. Dust jacket is chipped and browned at back, with a small tear in top edge. ; Sketches .

Dutton, 1945 Book. Good. Hardcover. Black Cloth. G+/no jacket.

Armed Services, 1945 Action & Adventure First Paperback Edition. Very Good. Mild hints of edgewear. Some minor fading along top edge and spine of front cover. Surname inked in small letters on top right of rear cover. No. 999.

New York: E. P. Dutton& company, Inc., 1945 pp.308. with chapter head sketches by Alice Caddy. Black cloth, gilt with a little light wear to corners. Fore edge of pageblock uncut. A very good clean copy in Good protected dustjacket with some edge tears and creasing to bottom front edge. Despite the claim that "this complete edition is produced in full compliance with the government's regulations for conserving paper and other essentials materials" the book has 12 blank pages in addition to the endpapers!

E.P. Dutton & Company, inc. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Acceptable dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (literature, novel, fiction)

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1945. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Alice Caddy (Sketches). 308, [8] pages. This work was the Winner of the 1944-1945 Thomas Jefferson Award. Ben Lucien Burman (December 12, 1895 - November 12, 1984) was an American author and journalist born in Covington, Kentucky. He also fought in both World War I and World War II, and graduated from Harvard University. He was married to Alice Caddy who illustrated many of his books, including his most popular books, the Catfish Bend series. The series, set in Catfish Bend, Mississippi, tells a tale of the many animal residents of Catfish Bend. It was published in eleven languages. Alice Caddy Burman was an artist and illustrator of a series of popular books by her husband, Ben Lucien Burman. Mrs. Burman uses her maiden name, Alice Caddy, professionally. She traveled in the Arctic and the Sahara, the jungles in Africa, Borneo and New Guinea to do her art work. She lived at times among… Read More

1945. Manuscript. Approximately 565 loose sheets comprised of roughly an equal number of typed and holograph pages. All slightly toned with edge wear, very good. Burman's manuscript for his 1945 novel about a Mississippi steamboat captain's journey on the Congo, with a multitude of corrections and revisions throughout. Accompanying the manuscript is an Autograph Note Signed from Burman to his book editor delivering the finished work. Burman, born in Covington, Kentucky in 1896, published numerous novels set in the South, with many centered on life along the Mississippi. His earlier novel, *Steamboat Round the Bend*, was the basis for the 1935 film of the same name starring Will Rogers. A world traveler and veteran of both World War I and World War II, Burman was among the first correspondents to reach the Free French capital of Brazzaville in independent French Equatorial Africa during WWII, an experience that greatly informed this story. With a supplied copy of the first edition of *Rooster Crows… Read More