Ruth Ferris, Steamboat Tales. Saint Louis, Missouri, 1940. Offset, privately printed. 11”x 8.5”, 38 lvs. $250
“Ruth Ferris was one of the nation’s best known collectors of steamboat objects and history.” She was the first curator of the Missouri Historical Society’s River Room, and her writing “represent(s) a history of St. Louis during the golden age of steamboats”.
It is noted that the work being sold here, “Steamboat Tales”, was never published before being included in “St. Louis and the Mighty Mississippi in the Steamboat Age: The Collected Writings of Ruth Ferris”, published by the St. Louis Mercantile Library in 1993, which is also the source of the preceding quotes. Very good condition, bound in a store-bought manila folder, punch bound. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their 10mm perforated “LC” stamp in the title page, plus their surplus rubber stamp on the rear cover. Also comes with a carbon copy library card of the original LC library card catalog card.
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