SIGNED Life on the Mississippi Rinker Buck Signed on Title Page 1st Edition

New York: Avid Reader Press, 2022. SIGNED. VG/VG. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line starting with 1. Signed on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges. Spine ends pushed and creased, small smudge on front board and faint creases to bottom corners. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. B&W matte photos, drawings and photographic color endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($32.50) with light creases to spine head area (see photos) Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. 397 pages with index. 6½ x 9½".

"Life on the Mississippi" is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand “flatboat era” of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America’s first western frontier.