first edition Hardcover
1954 · Boston
by BISSELL, Richard
Boston: Little Brown, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in price-clipped, very good plus dustwrapper with a short tear, some rubbing and some modest fading at the spine. A novel about a Mississippi River boat caught in a flood on the river. Great jacket art that is more reminiscent of the paperback art of the era, with two crewmen in a launch rescuing an inexplicably bare-chested farmer's daughter from the bechickened roof of her farmhouse. Third novel by the author of *7½ Cents*, which was the basis for the Broadway musical and subsequent film *The Pajama Game.*. (Inventory #: 31087)