Goodbye To A River John Graves; Russell Waterhouse [Illus.]; Carl Hertzog [Design] Biography / Memoir,First Editions,Nature / Natural History,Texana,Travel / Exploration

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition, stated. Octavo; [x], 306pp. Vignette illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth with dark red lettering and illustration. Price-clipped jacket is edgeworn with a few shallow tears and chips along edges and spine ends; spine a bit dulled and darkened. Boards are square with nudging at head and tail. Small ownership label of Dr. Roman J. Lipinski of Hinsdale, IL on front free endpaper, with small pencil ownership inscription of the same dated April 1962 on rear free endpaper recto. Binding is sound and pages otherwise unmarked. Author's debut book -- an account of his three-week canoe trip with his dachshund down the Brazos River in North Central Texas before a proposed series of dams threatened to alter the riverscape whose geography, history, and regional lore he grew up with. A classic of conservationism and regional Texana. [LOWMAN 121].