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[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MACLEAN, Norman. A River Runs Through It. West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1989.
Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MACLEAN, Norman. A River Runs Through It. West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1989.
 
8vo. Illustrated with 13 wood engravings by Barry Moser. UNBOUND FOLDED SHEETS.
 
LIMITED EDITION, one of 200 copies signed by Maclean and Moser, this copy marked artist’s proof (“AP.”) on colophon. Accompanied by an extra suite of 14 engravings signed by the artist.
 
[With:] Original woodblock engraved by Moser for one of the flies illustrated in the Pennyroyal edition. — An extra group of 40 prints (including duplicates) for the work, unsigned. — 2 later printings, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [n.d.], 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, in dust jackets, each SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. —  A group of additional binding labels for the Pennyroyal edition. — Original hand-tied yellow stone fly, with note from Richard Rose (grandson of George Croonenberghs, who tied all the flies depicted in the edition, but the “Bunyan Bug” tied by Norman Means) presenting it to Moser (“My gramps made this around 1940…). — And a copy of Fishing Stories, Edited by Henry Hughes, New York: Knopf, 2013, second printing, inscribed by Hughes to Moser.

Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser
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