Dickey, James — Deliverance

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First Printing. Hardcover. Black DJ with green and blue illustration and green lettering; white cloth over boards with green lettering; 278 pp. Nice copy of this famous book in its first printing. "The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance." -- WorldCat. Good (DJ is price-clipped and scuffed/smudged/edgeworn; boards are edgeworn and smudged; textblock edges are scuffed/smudged; interior is very clean; binding is solid.) .