Little rivers

a book of essays in profitable idleness

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Little rivers

a book of essays in profitable idleness

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Early printing. Includes tinted black and white frontispiece and 7 additional tinted illustrations after drawings by F. V. DuMond. Top edge gilt, deckle edges. A signed Margaret Armstrong Art Nouveau binding in gold, green and white on smooth dark blue cloth. A series of lyrical essays about rivers the author has visited and fished in the United States, Canada and overseas. A beautiful copy of one of Armstrong's stained glass style bindings. -- Austin Abbey Rare Books.

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Publisher
C. Scribner's Sons
Language
English
Pages
290

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Table of Contents

Prelude.
Little rivers.
A leaf of spearmint.
Ampersand.
A handful of heather.
The Ristigouche from a horse-yacht.
Alpenrosen and goats' milk.
Au large.
Trout-fishing in the Traun.
At the sign of the balsam bough.
A song after sundown.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
The works of Henry Van Dyke. Avalon ed., vol. I, Outdoor essays, I

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3115 .A2 1920 vol. 1

The Physical Object

Pagination
290 p.
Number of pages
290

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6624725M
LCCN
20008228
OCLC/WorldCat
626817
LibraryThing
399247

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2254119W

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