Return To the River

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Return to the River remains one of the finest books ever written about the salmon and has won its place as an angler's and naturalist's classic. Drawn back again to spawn in the stream that hatched them, the deep-sea salmon, the great silver chinooks, return as inevitably as the September rains. Return to the River captures the whole sweep of the… Read more about this item

NY: Crown Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops foxed, bookseller sticker on . rear endpaper.. 1974. Hardcover. 0517516004 . Brown cloth. Foreword, black and white illustrations, and short author bio. Roderick Haig-Brown, observing with the trained eye of the naturalist what he records with a novelist skill, here sets forth the dramatic life history of one… Read more about this item

Toronto, Canada: McClelland & Stewart. VG+. 1946. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 248 pages. Light wear to dust jacket edges. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1997. The classic story of the Chinok run and of the men who fish it. Originally published in 1946, this edition has a new foreword by Steve Raymond. 248 pages.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine..

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1941 Signed limited edition copy number 175 of 520 copies. Numbered and signed by both the author and illustrator on special limited page at front. Illustrations by Charles DeFeo. 8vo 9 1/4" tall. Quarter bound red morocco leather spine stamped in gilt and light cloth boards. 260 pages. Top page edges bright gilt. Page… Read more about this item

NY: Morrow. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding marked where dust jacket was stuck, edge wear, end papers dark. ; 8vo; 248 pages; Illustrated by Charles deFeo. .

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

UNKNO, 0000-00-00. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good.

MORROW. Trade Paperback. Very Good/Good+. Shelfwear/edgewear on covers and spine on dust jacket and boards; rubbing/chipping on DJ covers and spine; tips of spine lightly bumped; DJ price clipped and age-toned/soiled.

Oshkosh, WI, USA: Willow Creek Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xx, 140pp. Pictorial cloth-covered boards, blue endpapers. 4to. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Spine and top front board edge sun-faded. Lightly rubbed board edges. Bookseller's pricing on front free endpaper. Internally clean, neat, bright and tight.

New York: Crown Publishers. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. 1974. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 248 pp. .

New York: Morrow , 1941. Bookplate. Light cover soil. Otherwiase a clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Illustrated with numerous full-page drawings by Charles DeFeo. Said to be the best biography of a fish ever written, this classic angling novel revolves around the life-history of the Pacific Chinook salmon. Traces the journey of… Read more about this item

William Morrow, 1941. Later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good copy of the 1954 7th printing hardcover in jacket (jacket has some nicking to edges). Illustrated By Charles De Feo.

Toronto: Mcclelland & Stewart, 1946. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. b/w Illustration. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In color pictorial jacket, 8vo, 248pp. (light shelfwear to extremities, sm. nicks to jacket at top edge).

William Morrow, 1941. 1st Edition . First printing with no additional printings listed on copyright page. Near-fine with bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise clean and tight. In a bright and clean very good dust jacket ($3.00 price intact) with several small pin holes to the front flap and a couple of small abrasions to the rear panel.… Read more about this item

New York. William Morrow and Company. 1941. Octavo (8 x 6). 260 pp. Limited Edition. Book number 186 of 475 copies published. Signed by Roderick Haig-Brown and the book's illustrator, Charles De Feo, on the limitation page. Illustrated color frontispiece. With sixteen exquisitely drawn plates of salmon and anglers by Charles De Feo. Laid-in is a holograph letter signed by… Read more about this item

New York. William Morrow and Company. 1941. Octavo (8 x 6). 260 pp. Limited Edition. Book number 128 of 475 copies published. Signed by Roderick Haig-Brown and the book's illustrator, Charles De Feo, on the limitation page. Illustrated color frontispiece. With sixteen exquisitely drawn plates of salmon and anglers by Charles De Feo. Return to the River is a marvelous… Read more about this item

Toronto, Canada. McClelland & Stewart Limited. 1946. First Canadian Edition. Octavo (8 x 6). 248 plus page About the Author. Illustrated with eight black and white plates drawn by Charles De Feo. Haig-Brown’s book is the best account published on the singular migration of a Pacific salmon as she travels from her river of birth, out to sea, and… Read more about this item

New York. William Morrow & Company. 1941. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 x 5 ½). 248 pp. Sixteen black and white plates of salmon and fishermen illustrated by Charles De Feo. Haig-Brown's time-honored story of the imperiled runs of Pacific Coast salmon and the native peoples who depend on their return for their livelihood. The book is bound… Read more about this item