A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.

"All good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy": First Edition of A River Runs Through It; Signed by Norman Maclean

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.

MACLEAN, Norman.

Item Number: 107346

Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1976.

First edition, first printing one of only 1,577 copies of Maclean’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Norman Maclean on the front free endpaper. With a short gift inscription in the year of publication on the front free endpaper and a lengthy one on the rear endpaper to “Joe” (playwright Joe Starzyk) from Margaret, daughter of Andy Armstrong, one of the early models for the Marlboro man, and friend of Norman Maclean. The inscription reads, “Norman is a dear friend of mine…I’ve been to the cottage in Seeley Lake Montana that he and his father built over fifty years ago. It is truly as wonderful as he describes it…perhaps this book has a special meaning to me because I know and love the man who wrote it.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. An exceptional example with noted provenance.

"[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.

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