What the River Knows: An Angler in Midstream
by FIELDS, Wayne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0671707825
- ISBN 13
- 9780671707828
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Poseidon Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0671707825 . First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. In this memoir, the author considers aspects of his life at middle age from the perspective of a fisherman on a river in the Upper Penisula of Michigan. --- In textured light green paper-covered boards backed in darker green cloth, and titling in gilt on spine. Jacket back flap features black & white photographic portrait of the author by Frank W. Bliss. --- With slightly toned cover edges, else a clean, bright, unmarked copy. Price-clipped jacket is otherwise undamaged.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); 253 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81261
- Title
- What the River Knows: An Angler in Midstream
- Author
- FIELDS, Wayne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671707825
- ISBN 13
- 9780671707828
- Publisher
- Poseidon Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- 0671707825
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir; >>Outdoor Pursuits & Recreation;
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About the Seller
Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
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