[Item #4555] Where the Rivers Flow North. Howard Frank Mosher.
Where the Rivers Flow North
Where the Rivers Flow North
Where the Rivers Flow North
Where the Rivers Flow North

Where the Rivers Flow North

ISBN: 0670761311
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. "In this collection of short fiction Howard Frank Mosher returns to the scenic but rugged hill country of northern Vermont that provided the setting for his highly praised first novel, Disappearances. The characters who people the six stories are natives of this isolated remnant of an earlier New England. They are fiercely proud, resourceful, determined to the point of stubbornness. They lead a strictly circumscribed existence- mean, elemental, unsparing. They buck adversity. They prevail." (from front flap) The second published work of Howard Frank Mosher (1942-2017), the austerely evocative American author whose novels, stories & nonfiction all focus on a particular, quintessential region of Vermont as described above. Including six short stories & a concluding novella with the title of this collection. Hardcover in clipped dust jacket, first edition with all first printing/ issue points including "1178" printed near lower right corner of front flap. An exemplary collectible among Mosher's esteemed American literary classics. Book in fine condition with light wear, fading, sparse spotting & a few tiny bumps to thin edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; light rubbing & moderate spotting to upper edge of text block; somewhat less at side & lower edges of same. Interior very fine with only mild browning & occasional spotting to blank paste-downs & endpapers; miniscule bleeding of block-edge spots noted above onto upper & side edges of a few page leaves. Dust jacket relatively fine with mild rubbing, browning, scratching & faint creasing to front, back covers, spine & flaps; very light wear & some tiny bumps, creases at thin edges & corners of same; one very small, arrow-shaped area with loss of surface paper at lower-middle right margin & edge of front cover, hardly effecting illustration. Fine / Fine. [Item #4555]

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