[MISSISSIPPI RIVER BIBLIOGRAPHY]. A group of 18 works, including:

BYRD, Cecil K. A Bibliography of Illinois Imprints 1814-1858. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1966. Publisher's brown cloth; dust jacket. -- FLAKE, Chad J. and DRAPER, Larry W. A Mormon Bibliography 1830-1930. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989. Publisher's blue cloth. -- HOWES, Wright. U.S. Iana (1650-1950). New York: R.R. Bowker Company for the Newberry Library, 1962. Revised and enlarged edition. Publisher's brown cloth. -- LARNED, Josephus Nelson (ed.) (1836-1913). The Literature of American History. Columbus: Long's College Book Co., 1953. Publisher's black cloth; dust jacket. -- RUSK, Ralph Leslie. The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1962. 2 volumes. Publisher's green cloth; dust jacket. -- SOLIDAY, George W. (ed.) (1869-1950). A Priced and Descriptive Checklist Together With Short Title Index Describing Almost 7500 Items of Western Americana. New York: Peter Decker, 1940-1945. Contemporary green cloth. -- [STREETER, Thomas]. The Celebrated Collection of Americana Formed by the Late Thomas Winthrop Streeter. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1966. 7 volumes. Publisher's blue cloth. -- And 11 others. Together, 18 works in 27 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, condition generally fine. Complete list available on request. Provenance: Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 19 November 2009, lot 108). Complete list available upon request.

Property from the Collection of Perry B. Hansen