[McMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copy]. MACLEAN, Norman (1902-1990). A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, [1976]. FIRST EDITION of this author?s scarce first book with a reported first printing of only 1,155 copies. The basis for the 1992 film of the same name directed by Robert Redford and starring Brad Pitt. There is no doubt that Larry McMurtry drew inspiration from this for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove (1985), which, much like Maclean?s work, sets a vivid scene of the beautiful Montana landscape and the rivers that run through it.