Author: Keyes, Francis Parkinson
Title: Steamboat Gothic
Description: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952, 1st UK edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. 286pp, dustjacket spine a trifle yellowed and edges rubbed, a nice fine copy. Attractive dustjacket art wich forms a wrap-around image of a plantation house & steamboat. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ Gothic novel set on Louisiana's famed River Road charting the changes in transportation & the effects upon the plantations along the river between the years 1869 & 1895.

Keywords: fiction, louisiana, historical fiction