Author: CARTER, JOHN HENTON
Title: Mississippi Argonauts - A Tale of the South (Signed Presentation Copy)
Description: NY, Dawn Publishing, 1903. 1903. Hardcover . Hardback, small octavo, appx 5 3/4 x 7 7/8 inches, gilt on maroon cloth with b&w illustrated pastedown, 292 pages, Good only/no dustjacket. Inscribed/SIGNED by author on verso of half-title (the blank facing the title page) to author/historian/journalist Walter B. Stevens (Centennial History of Missouri, A Reporter's Lincoln, History of St. Louis, A Trip to Panama, Robert Burns in St. Louis, etc. etc.). The inscription reads (appx) (hard to read): "For Walter B. Stevens, Esq. with regard of John Henton Carter in memory of the day when the papers pulled the boatman from the captain to the chief and a man could eat his breakfast while he read about himself, C." Nine plates illustrated by L. Berneker. Good. Signed by Author.

Keywords: Southern Fiction 19th Century Regional Interest Missouri American History Riverboats Mark Twain