Timber: A Novel of the Pacific Coast Loggers. [Inscribed & Signed by Roderick Haig-Brown & with a Holograph Letter Signed by Haig-Brown Presenting this, His Personal Copy of Timber].
de Roderick L. Haig-Brown
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New York. William Morrow & Company. 1942. First Edition. Octavo (8 x 6). [vi], [1-2], 3-410 pp. including glossary. Inscribed and signed by Roderick Haig-Brown in the year of publication on a tipped-in leaf facing the half-title page presenting Timber to the book editor of the Cincinnati Ohio Times Newspaper, Mona Harrop McElfresh. Blind-stamped on the tipped-in leaf: "Above Tide, / Campbell River, / British Columbia." Tipped-in on the reverse of the front end paper is a lengthy holograph letter penned by Haig-Brown addressed to Mrs. McElfresh discussing Timbers narrative and Rodericks motivations detailing his descriptions of the books protagonists; he thanks her for the favorable review. At the end of the letter, Haig-Brown writes that signing Mrs. McElfreshs copy of Timber would be prohibitively expensive; shipping it to Campbell River and returning the book to her in Ohio, pointing out the high costs of Canadian import duties and sales tax. Generously, Haig-Brown sent her this copy of Timber. In my years of handling Haig-Brown books, this is the first example encountered where Haig-Brown modified one of his personal books in such a manner. The book is bound in the publishers brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Illustrated end papers. Pictorial dust jacket. The book is fine in a near very good dust jacket with some soiling on the back panel. A unique book.. Signed by Author..
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- Timber: A Novel of the Pacific Coast Loggers. [Inscribed & Signed by Roderick Haig-Brown & with a Holograph Letter Signed by Haig-Brown Presenting this, His Personal Copy of Timber].
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Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
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Bruce Cave Fine Books specializes in quality fishing books – particularly fly fishing for trout, steelhead, Pacific and Atlantic salmon, striped, black, and smallmouth bass plus any other fish that’ll eat a well-dressed fly; fresh and salt water fishing anywhere on the planet, ranging from picky rainbows in the North Fork of the Feather River near Chester in Northern California to five hundred pound river monsters at Cao Lh in the Mekong Delta. That’s me in the top photo at age 10 in 1957 on the steps of our now gone cabin at Prattville on the west shore of Lake Almanor (it was elegant) – I’m holding the largest trout I’ve ever caught (seven pounds), and needed my grandfather’s helping hand to do it; that fish caught my imagination. And that’s me in the second photo taken in late October 2014 on the same cabin steps, 57 years later, holding an imaginary fish. Between the intervening years I realized that reading about fishing could be nearly as good as fishing itself. I also came to know that fly fishing can be a metaphor for life; there are those moments in fishing that require neither stream nor fish, and sometimes the least important thing about fly fishing is the fishing. Now it’s catch and release for the most part – time spent in rivers and lakes together with age encourages it. Fly fishing is timeless; fishermen aren’t. I think Robert Traver had it right: I fish ‘because maybe one day I will catch a mermaid’; and I ‘don’t regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant - and not nearly so much fun.' A life of fly fishing is beautiful and simple. I’m always interested in purchasing good books, booklets, pamphlets, catalogues, brochures and other ephemera on these subjects and encourage you to either email me at brucecave@comcast.net or telephone 916.728.5019. Sincerely, Bruce Cave.
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