[Rarebooks] FS: Two special copies of Paul Horgan's Pulitzer Prize Winning GREAT RIVER

[Charles Agvent]

Prices now reduced on these two items:

1.   HORGAN, Paul. GREAT RIVER: THE RIO GRANDE IN NORTH AMERICAN 
HISTORY. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1954. First Edition. Two 
volumes, illustrated with maps. Winner of both the Bancroft Prize and 
the Pulitzer Prize for history and originally intended to be published 
as part of the Rivers of America series, this account of the region is 
considered by most to be definitive. An exceptional copy in that both 
volumes contain the bookplate of publisher Alfred Knopf, and the first 
volume is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author "for Alfred Knopf/with a 
lifetime's/respect and/admiration/Paul Horgan." Laid in are a prospectus 
for the book as well as a typed note dated 1964 from Sidney Jacobs to 
Knopf giving a detailed breakdown of word count, typeface, and design of 
the book, apparently intended for a potential reprinting of the book. 
Near Fine, lacking the dustwrappers and slipcase.            $600.00	

2.   HORGAN, Paul. GREAT RIVER: THE RIO GRANDE IN NORTH AMERICAN 
HISTORY. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1954. First Edition. Two 
volumes, illustrated with maps and color plates by Horgan not included 
in the trade edition. Winner of both the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer 
Prize for history and originally intended to be published as part of the 
Rivers of America series, this account of the region is considered by 
most to be definitive. One of 1000 copies illustrated and SIGNED by the 
author. Laid in is the scarce prospectus for the book in the form of a 
single sheet folded like a greeting card with two of Horgan's color 
illustrations. Inserted into that is a business reply card order form 
which together with the prospectus is in an envelope addressed to the 
original owner. Fine without dustwrappers in Fine slipcase, as issued. 
Lovely.              $400.00	

Adams, Herd 1065; Basic Texas Books 95A: _This is the most thorough and 
the most civilized account of the vast region draining into the river 
that forms 900 miles of Texas border"; Greene, Fifty Best Books on Texas 
78; Powell, Southwestern Book Trails, p. 19: "The most ambitious and 
impressive of all Southwestern river books."

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