Title: Little rivers : a book of essays in profitable idleness /
Authors: Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933; Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons,
Year: 1908
Subjects: Outdoor life; Fishing; Bookbinding United States Specimens.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Prelude -- Little rivers -- A leaf of spearmint -- Ampersand -- A handful of heather -- The Ristigouche from a horse-yacht -- Alpenrosen and goat's milk -- Au large -- Trout fishing in the Traun -- At the sign of the balsam bough -- A song after sundown.