Little rivers
Subtitle: a book of essays in profitable idleness
By: by Henry Van Dyke.
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons
Published: 1908
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Outdoor life; Fishing
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Prelude; title: Little rivers; title: A leaf of spearmint; title: Ampersand; title: A handful of heather; title: The Ristigouche from a horse-yacht; title: Alpenrosen and goat's milk; title: Au large; title: Trout fishing in the Traun; title: At the sign of the balsam bough; title: A song after sundown.