Vintage Chum - A River Runs Through It Edition

This weeks finds feature a signed copy of the book that inspired the movie, a signed book by Director Redford and some movie memorabilia.

A rare limited edition signed by Moser and Maclean, with fourteeen wood engravings by Barry Moser. Handbound in full golden-tan leather and presented in a magnificent linen clamshell case which is quarter bound in the same leather. Enclosed is an additional suite of the engravings in a pull-out chemise, each signed by Moser, and one of the original flys hand-tied by George Croonenbergs (who taught Maclean the art of fly-tying) which were used for the engravings. One of the most beautiful and rarest Pennyroyal Press editions.

Yours for $7,500.

Published in 1992, A River Runs Through It: Bringing a Classic to the Screen, the screenplay is accompanied by the screenwriter's comments on the difficulty in adapting the story.

This copy is signed by Redford on the front wrap.

LINK (via: Abe Books)

This period suit was worn by the character Paul Maclean as portrayed by Brad Pitt in the film. The two-piece white suit was custom tailored for the actor by the Western Costume Company.

LINK (via:The Golden Closet)

A brown wool tweed vest  and pair of brown wool herringbone pants worn by Pitt portraying "Paul Maclean" in the scene when we first see him as an adult, fishing with his father and brother.

Sold for $1,750

"that would mark the end of the world of books"

How would you like to have been the Knopf book editor who rejected A River Runs Through It? D’oh!

Maclean called his letter to Knopf editor Charles Elliott, who contacted Maclean to see if he’d like to pitch another book, one of the best things he ever wrote.

LINK (via: The Adventure Journal)

A Billiard Ball Runs Through It - Norman Maclean on Billiards

Wait, what?

Thanks to Neil Sentance for drawing our attention to this fantastic piece of writing by Norman Maclean on the Lapham’s Quarterly website. Norman will be known to most of our readers, I’m sure, as the author of ‘A River Runs Through It’ (‘In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing’). Here, he talks of his other passion, billiards.

(Via: Caught by the River)

Norman Maclean and the Question of Craft

To some then, he is grandfatherly keeper of fly-fishing lore; to others he is a regional writer gone Oprah in the grave, with a blockbuster movie as a resounding epitaph. Such understandings of the author, however, cast shadows over the deeper currents that inform his approach to literature.

LINK (Via: Front Porch Republic)