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**Presentation copy from the Author to fellow writer of note, Bud Kelland, (undated).** Hard cover, 8vo., in blue publisher's cloth, embossed with border and with the title and ship vignette to the front board in gilt, and upon spine, 436 pp. Condition: Very Good, with a couple of repairs attempted at two final pages, due to a manufacturing error with the page trim. Minor rubbing to exterior corners and edges. First published in 1925, Steamboat Days is a heavily list-centric compendium of details of the industry, beginning in England, and early America. Broken down by geographic region, it includes details on every part of America's riverine commerce, especially as it blossomed in the nineteenth century. (Of particular interest to this bookseller is the mention of steamboats on the Merrimack River, ferrying passengers to a day of relaxation at Plum Island from Haverhill, or goods and materials from Newburyport to Salem or Boston.) Numerous pen and ink illustrations of individual steamboats are provided by John Wolcott Adams (1874-1925), a descendant of the famed Presidents of the same last name, as well as a successful magazine and book illustrator, who once worked with Howard Pyle teaching art at the latter's art school in Delaware. **The presentation inscription is from the Author to Bud Kelland. Kelland wrote many popular novels in the thirties and forties, his character Scattergood Baines being serialized into a run of six popular Hollywood movies.
Ref: AMER 8507
$75.00