A River Runs Through It and Other Stories.

MACLEAN, Norman.

Item Number: 120372

Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1976.

First edition, third printing of Maclean’s first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “University of Chicago Oct. 20, 1977 To Pat and Elizabeth Pattullo With best wishes and ever the hope that you will find the trout fishing good in the Charles River Norman Maclean.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Joel Snyder.

"[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.