BISSELL, Richard. My Life on the Mississippi, or Why I Am Not Mark Twain. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1973. Publisher's blue cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- BOTKIN, B.A. (ed.). A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the Mid-American River Country. New York: Bonanza Books, 1978. Publisher's black cloth; dust jacket. -- DUDEN, Gottfried (1789-1856). Report on a Journey to the Western States of America. Columbia, MO: The University of Louisiana Press, 1980. Publisher's black cloth; dust jacket. -- HEARN, Chester G. (b. 1932). The Capture of New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Publisher's blue cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- MORMINO, Gary Ross (b. 1947). Immigrants on the Hill. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986. Publisher's red cloth; dust jacket. -- REPS, John (1921-2020). Cities of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century Images of Urban Development. Columbia, MO: The University of Missouri Press, 1994. Publisher's green cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. -- TANNER, Henry. The Martyrdom of Lovejoy. New York: Augustus M. Kelly, 1971. Publisher's gray cloth. -- And 273 others. Together, 280 works in 292 volumes, various folio, 8vo, and 4to sizes, condition generally very fine. Provenance for the lot: Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 19 November 2009). Complete list available upon request.