Speakman, Harold. Mostly Mississippi, 1927. 1st Edition. Near Fine.

Description: Mostly Mississippi by Harold Speakman, With A Number of Drawings By Russell Lindsay Speakman and the Author, New York: Dodd Mead & Co., 1927. 1st Edition. 360 pp. A nick on top of rear board and a bookplate on pastedown, else Fine Condition. Tight. Bright. And clean. (No DJ). Endpaper map embellishes the title as Mostly Mississippi: A Very Damp Adventure. A humorous and fascinating first person account of an artist/writer who with his illustrator wife took a small houseboat down the Mississippi River from its source to New Orleans. From Wiki: In July 1925, [Speakman] married the artist Frances Russell Lindsay (known professionally as Russell Lindsay Speakman) from Topeka, Kansas, who had been his student at the Art Institute before the war.[9] In August 1926, they began a seven-month river journey that followed the Mississippi River from its source at Lake Itasca to New Orleans, an adventure recounted in Mostly Mississippi, A Very Damp Adventure. The book describes the river and its people before the devastating flood of 1927 and offers short verbal portraits of Laura Frazer (the inspiration for Mark Twain's Becky Thatcher), Irish poet Padraic Colum, and author statesman William Alexander Percy. Florence Finch Kelly lauded the book in a review for the New York Times, praising the writing and the illustrations.[10]

Price: 18 USD

Location: Memphis, Tennessee

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