FIRST VINTAGE DEPARTURES EDITION, JULY 2002
Copyright © 1959 by The Curtis Publishing Company
Copyright © 1960, copyright renewed 1988 by John Graves
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1960.
Certain passages in this book first appeared in Holiday in somewhat different form.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Graves, John, 1920-
Goodbye to a river, a narrative / John Graves. — [ist ed.]
p. cm.
Brazos River (Tex.) 2. Brazos River Valley (Tex.) I. Title.
F392.B842 G7
917.641 60-10954
eISBN: 978-0-307-77335-7
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