A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.

MACLEAN, Norman.

Item Number: 109755

Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1976.

Early printing of Maclean’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “University of Chicago June 14, 1979. To Jane and Hubert Will May wisdom and love always attend you, as they always have. Norman.” Additionally signed by Robert Redford on the front free endpaper, “Times are better now with the advent of this book Best Robert Redford 10/4/92.” The recipient Hubert Will was an alumnus of the University of Chicago and appointed by President John F. Kennedy to be a federal judge in the district for the Northern District of Illinois. Him and his wife were close friends of Maclean. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed by both Maclean and Redford.

"[Maclean] would go to his grave secure in the knowledge that anyone who'd fished with a fly in the Rockies and read his novella on the how and why of it believed it to be the best such manual on the art ever written--a remarkable feat for a piece of prose that also stands as a masterwork in the art of tragic writing" (Philip Connors, The Nation). Adapted to the immensely successful film, directed by Robert Redford, starring Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer and Tom Skerritt. It went on to win an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.