Pascagoula; Singing River City

Author: Higginbotham, Jay
Title: Pascagoula; Singing River City
Publication: Mobile [Ala.]: Gill Press, 1967
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. Octavo with tangerine cloth boards and gilt stamping in blue pictorial jacket; 160 pages illustrations, map (on lining-papers), portraits; folded poem "Building of the Ship" laid in; 21 cm. Fine in fine jacket; laid in poem is browned at exposed edges.

The charming hand-drawn map on lining papers is just the beginning of a Pascagoula native's "panoramic view of a sleepy little fishing town growing up, inhabited by colorul politicians, rumrunners, bootleggers, pirates and fishermen. [...] Here, in this one volume, are the people and events that have shaped the destiny of the Pascagoula River Country. And all superbly illustrated with a hundred rare and varied photographs" --Jacket. // Mississippi history, US History, Mississippi River, Alabama, Deep South.

Seller ID: 103105

Subject: History



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