This review relates to the Heritage 1944 edition...Heritage's Life on the Mississippi features a dusky green slipcase; book is covered in textured green cloth with a riverboat emblem. Over 40 Thomas Hart Benton illustrations in color and black & white.Includes "a number of previously suppressed passages, now printed for the first time and edited with a note from Willis Wager."418 pp, decorated cloth over hardback boards, sewn binding.