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Graves (John).. Goodbye to a River; a narrative. The Book Club of Texas, [1989], 1989.
Price: US$121.75 + shipping
Description: Photographic plates, folding map (creased) One of 550 signed copies 4to Very nice copy in original glassine wrapper Quarter cloth (sunned in places), spine with printed label, marbled boards Reprint with a new introduction by the author.
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by the author on the Preface page, 1 of 550 printed in this signed, limited edition. Mylar book jacket is scuffed and lightly soiled. Hand marbled paper boards with rust cloth spine, spine is lightly sunned. All else fine condition. All orders packed with care, independent bookseller since 2011
Seller: Ivy Ridge Books/Scott Cranin, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Graves, John. Goodbye To A River. Book Club of Texas, Austin, 1989.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Author. Limited Edition One of 550 copies. Two-tone quarter spine and marbled paper over boards. Protected by a mylar cover. Designed by W. Thomas Taylor. Very light rubbing to covers. Pages crisp and clean. #G5
Seller: This Old Book, Inc, Grayslake, IL, U.S.A.
GRAVES, JOHN. GOODBYE TO A RIVER. The Book Club of Texas, 1989., Austin, 1989.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: First limited edition. 4to. Limited to 550 copies and signed by the author at the end of the Preface. Two-tone quarter spine and marbled paper over boards, with titles in black in a paper spine label, [12], 237 pp., preface, illustrated, map, bibliography. Designed by W. Thomas Taylor, with the photographs & illustrations made by the author during his journey courtesy of William Wittliff and printed as duo tones by David Holman at The Wind River Press. Beautiful folding map by Barbara Whitehead, initial letters at the head of each chapter by Penny Moran, hand-marbled papers by Peggy Skycraft in Estacada, Oregon, and bound by Craig Jensen at BookLab in Austin. This exceedingly special and beautiful edition of an all-time favorite Texas book was one of the Book Club's first publications after they were re-established in 1988. The Club had previously ceased publication in 1938. The author's new preface for this edition is hand signed by him. Observations, reflections and encounters during a 1959 canoe trip down a section of the Brazos River in North Central Texas was first published in 1960. Fine in a fine transparent, polyester, protective dust jacket, and housed in a cloth clamshell case with titles on a paper spine label. Clamshell case has a small old water stain to bottom edge of lower spine and onto the lower portion of the front panel.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.