The St. Lawrence. Illustrated by A. Y. Jackson. de Beston, Henry, 1888-1958

Farrar & Rinehart Inc. [1942; J. J. Little and Ives, NY].. First Edition. Hard Cover. The Rivers of America. Edited by Stephen Vincent Benét and Carl Carmer. As Planned and Started by Constance Lindsay Skinner [1877-1939]. Art Editor Ruth E. Anderson. xiii, 274 p., index, illus., map; blue cloth covers, 21 cm.; spine faded, a small waterspot on the front cover, pencil owner’s initials; no dj; else VG. Twentieth in the Rivers of America series. Outlet for the Great Lakes, flowing eastward from Lake Ontario past the Gaspé Peninsula and Anticosti Island into the Atlantic. ‘The reader will find that the book largely concerns itself with the French regions of the St. Lawrence, for there is the river at its greatest and there is human life most shaped by its presence and influences.’ Artist A. Y. Jackson, 1882-1974. st0ck#101163.