The Doing of the Thing: The Brief Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom

Flagstaff, Arizona: Fretwater Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed in black ink by all three authors in the year of publication on the half-title page. 290 pp. Octavo [23.5 cm]; full brown cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and a gilt stamped vignette on the front cover. Map endsheets. Illustrated with many black and white photographs. A nice copy. Buzz Holmstrom was the first person to navigate the Colorado River alone – doing so in a boat that he designed and built himself. This is one of five hundred hardbound copies published.