[Rarebooks] FS: 3 Books on American Fishing& Angling

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

Three Fishing Titles-

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TITLE #1: “The Western Angler. An Account of Pacific Salmon & Western
Trout in British Columbia”

By Roderick L. Haig-Brown.
Published by William Morrow & Co. in 1954. 2nd printing.

DISCUSSION: This is the revised and updated trade edition of this angling
classic, one of the finest books ever written on Western trout and salmon.
Joseph Henry Jackson called the author, “one of the few immortals in the
field of writing about nature and the natural sciences”. “Here are superb
descriptions of the different species and variations of trout and salmon
and other British Columbia game fish, their breeding and feeding and
migratory habits, their history, [in a] book filled with information and
lore”.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 5.5”x8.5”, 356 pages, 2 color plates and many line
illustrations, dust jacket.

CONDITION NOTES: The dust jacket has some wear and chipped, and a tear
across the spine– (please see the photos, above and below). The book
itself has a name crossed out on the endpaper and some minor wear, but
otherwise is clean and nice, with a tight binding.

PRICE: $75. -

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TITLE #2: “The Best of the Anglers’ Club Bulletin 1920-1972”

Edited by A. Ross Jones.
Privately printed for The Anglers’ Club of New York by the Stinehour Press
in 1972.

DISCUSSION: The Anglers’ Club of New York was founded in 1906 and started
its Bulletin in 1920. This selection features a wide range of essays from
the Bulletin on many aspects of fly fishing, “articles of an imaginative,
entertaining and informative nature that seem most likely to deserve
rescue from the oblivion of time”. Biographies of each author are also
included.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 7”x10”, 168 pages, several line illustrations.
Slipcased.

CONDITION NOTES: A little light soil to the slipcase, former owner's gift
inscription on the endpaper, but otherwise clean and nice, with a tight
binding.

PRICE: $150. -

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TITLE #3: “Salmon Talk”

By Jean-Paul Dube.
Published in Clinton, NJ by the Amwell Press in 1983.
>From an edition of 1000 copies for the National Sporting Fraternity
Limited. Signed by the author and illustrator.

DISCUSSION: A series of “informal chats” on salmon-fishing topics by this
popular author and lifelong salmon fisherman. Illustrated with photos from
the author’s collection, and drawings by Tom Hennessey.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 6”x9”, 233 pages, several color plates and black &
white illustrations. Bound in bonded leather with gilt title and cover
decoration, silk moiré endpapers, slipcased.

CONDITION NOTES: With an unrelated inscription opposite the title page,
otherwise in fine, clean condition in a slightly soiled case.

PRICE: $100. -

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