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The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press
The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press
The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press
The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press
The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press
The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press
The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press
The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press
The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press
The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press
The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press
The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press

The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice [SIGNED! LIMITED EDITION] 1/500 • 2004 • Meadow Run Press

The American Shad: Selections from the Founding Fish by John McPhee w/ Paintings by John Rice

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION [2004] THE MEADOW RUN PRESS

One of only 500 limited signed boxed editions.  Beautiful green gilded cloth boards in archival sleeve, and slipcase.  Tipped in endpaper at rear of book is flat-signed by John Mcphee. 

Book is in stunning condition.  Minor trace shelf wear to slipcase.  Book itself is mint. 

We are pleased to announce this collection of pieces from John McPhee's The Founding Fish in an elegant, beautifully illustrated Meadow Run Press edition. The Pulitzer Prize winning author is a national treasure--the author of twenty-six books. With vivid and spirited prose, McPhee masterfully weaves together the shad's natural history, his own angling history with the fish, along with the history of the early American settlers and the critical importance of this fish to their very existence.

This is a large and compelling story. The misery and hunger of George Washington's troops at Valley Forge are palpable through McPhee's pen, as is their joy and salvation in the annual shad migration up the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. Early Philadelphia comes alive with vendor's shouts of "Shad-e-o! Shad-e-o!" announcing newly-arrived fish. And with fly rod in hand, the author travels to the Miramichi in advance of the Atlantic salmon run for some remarkable, memorable shad fishing--unknown to most fly fishermen.

An Edition of 500 Copies Signed by the Author