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Item Details
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| Author: |
Haig-Brown, Roderick L. |
| Title: |
Return to the River: A Story of the Chinook Run |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
William Morrow |
| Date: |
1941 |
| Item # : |
170047 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
| Lot Number |
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114 |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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05/11/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 230 |
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| Description: |
| 259 pp. Illustrations by Charles DeFeo throughout, including a color frontispiece. 9x6, quarter red morocco, linen boards, spine stamped and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, slipcase. No. 516 of 520 hand-numbered copies, of which 475 copies were for sale. First Edition. |
| Signed by the author and artist on the limitation page. Also, inscribed in blue ink: "Presentation copy to Eugene Connett" on the limitation page, presumably in Mr. Connett's hand. Connett is the Derrydale Press publisher. Probably the best animal biography ever written on the life of a fish, tracing a chinook salmon born on Santiam River, Oregon, following it down the Columbia to the ocean, then its final return to spawn and die. Wide acclaim among biologists as the best popular account of spawning and life-history of a Pacific salmon, because the author spent so much time on the rivers with professionals. "Scarce" - Bruns H 15. |
| Condition: |
| General wear to slipcase; volume spine a bit darkened, small chips at foot; pastedowns darkened (from the binder's glue); else near fine with a very good slipcase. |
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