Goodbye to a River by John Graves, First Edition (13 results)

mass_market. Condition: Acceptable. 1st printing, 1971. Stamp / markings on first page. Sticker inside front cover. No markings in actual text. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition Pbk Thus. 1977 first Bison book printing paperback; Very Good, clean copy, appears unread, lightly aged; with author's signature on the fep; UK dealer, immediate dispatch. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of first edition. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Salmon-colored cloth boards are clean, corners sharp. Binding is square and solid. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown, almost entirely obscured by jacket flap. Top edge of jacket has a tiny chip, plus some very short tears (longest tear being one-quarter-inch). Publisher's original $4.50 price intact. A narrative of Graves' three-week canoe trip down the Brazos River, interwoven with a history of the people who have lived along its banks. A lovely copy of a wonderful book. Typography, binding and jacket design by Carl Hertzog. 306 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Waterhouse, Russell (illustrator). 1st Edition. Shelf wear. Two tears to top front dust jacket, one to bottom spine and small chip missing from top spine, rear has handling. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed and inscribed to a friend by author on front endpaper. Tenth printing. Hard cover published by Knopf in 1981. Tan covers with design on front and lettering and design on spine. Corners of covers are slightly bumped. Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover, and has some chipping and creasing at ends of the spine, some wear and tear at the corners, and is in good condition. 8vo, 306 pages, 1.1 lb.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 306 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. 306p octavo a very good copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket Inscribed "For __ & __ with most cordial best wishes John Graves 7/30/86" Has 2 small stains on the bottom edge.

Hard Cover. First Edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The jacket has a few tiny edge tears and tiny chips at spine ends. A beautiful copy of this classic of Texas literature. Illustrations by Russell Waterhouse. Includes double page map after half title, illustrations, and bibliography; 306 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Narrative of a 3-week canoe trip down the Brazos River in Texas taken by the author after learning of a series of proposed dams. Duotone reproductions of photos taken by the author during the trip. Illustrations by Russell Waterhouse. Illuminated letters by Penny Moran. Fold-out map by Barbara Whitehead. Limited to 550 unnumbered copies signed by Graves at the end of his introduction. First published in 1960. "It contains the essential humor, the rawness, and earthy wisdom of an old, rural Texas society without sacrificing intelligence and historical accuracy.I rank it as the finest piece of Texas writing ever done"?A. C. Greene, Basic Texas Books. 237 pages. A near fine hardcover copy; with marbled paper over boards, no dust jacket, as issued. One corner a bit bumped. Fold-out map fine. Signed by the author at the end of the preface. This copy is also inscribed, "For Tom, with best wishes, John Graves. 10/5/91." This copy comes from the collection of Tom Garner and includes a folded copy of the prospectus laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Russell Waterhouse (illustrator). First Edition/First Printing. A solid tight clean very carefully read book. This copy has some of the fairly common light browning to the edges of the text block, light browning to the endpapers, front and rear, two light corner bumps. The 4.50 priced jacket has not fared so well over the years. The jacket has some rubbing wear, some edge wear, some chipping, some soil, several tears. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. Nice overall copy, rough jacket. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG/VG. First US edition, first printing. An American classic. Signed by author on fep. Original price of $4.50 intact. PO bookplate on front pastedown partially hidden by dust jacket flap, PO stamped name and address on fep, Gift date on fep. Top and bottom of jacket spine chipped. Closed tear back jacket flap. Two rear corners bumped. 306 pp. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. dj: fine in mylar. book: fine. 1st edition. signed by author & illustrator. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Near Fine Book & Very Good + Jacket, clip, light edge wear, Inscribed and Signed in protective cover. Inscribed by Author(s).