HAIG-BROWN, RODERICK

Saltwater Summer

Great Britain, Collins. 1949. Hardcover. Ill.: Worsley, John. Book, Name inside else interior is clean. Blue boards are faded along edges, corners lightly bent. Dust jacket has edgewear and has been clipped. Good/Good.

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Book number: 045859

Catalogue: Children/Young Adult

Keywords: Worsley, John

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN.

Le Saumon.

First Edition. Environnement Canada. Service des Peches et des Sciences de la Mer. Ottawa 1974. Version Francaise Sous Le Direction De Fernand Seguin. Ottawa. Environment Canada. Fisheries and Marine Service. 1974. First French language edition. Large Quarto (12 ½ x 8). 79 pp. Stunning color plates showing salmon as a valuable natural resource, especially so for Canada’s aboriginal peoples who depend on the annual return of spawning salmon for their existence. There are colored maps showing the routes salmon travel during their time at sea. Haig-Brown’s compassionate and thoughtful text celebrates salmon and pleads for their continued return to their home rivers. The French language edition is a scarce book, with 100-200 copies published. The book is bound in coarse brown cloth with Bill Reid’s Haida Salmon printed on a paper label on the front cover, and brown titling label printed in gilt on the spine. A nice book. In fine condition.

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Book number: 011284

HAIG-BROWN, RODERICK L.

Silver - The Life Story of an Atlantic Salmon

Canada, Douglas & McIntyre. 1989. (ISBN: 0888946694). Hardcover. Ill.: Allen, Gordon. Book, Very nice copy. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 046069

Catalogue: Animals

Keywords: 0888946694 Allen, Gordon

HAIG-BROWN, RODERICK

Silver - L'Histoire D'un Saumon De L'atlantique

0. Paperback. Book, French language version. Light wear, lower corners finger smudged. Good.

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Book number: 42939

Catalogue: French Language

RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN.

Silver. The Life Story of an Atlantic Salmon. {Signed}.

First Edition. New York. Lyons & Burford, Publishers. 1989. First American Edition. Large octavo (9 x 8). 91 pp. Signed by Valerie Haig-Brown on the half-title page. Illustrated by Gordon Allen. Text map showing the route Silver traveled at sea before returning to his home river of birth. The book is bound in burgundy and green cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed.

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Book number: 011166

RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN.

Silver: The Life Story of an Atlantic Salmon.

London. Adam & Charles Black. 1963 [1931]. Later printing. Octavo (8 x 5). 95 pp. Illustrated frontispiece drawn by Bernard Venables. With six full-page illustrations. Haig-Brown’s first published book is always fresh and insightful because he was the best at what he did - descriptive writing cloaked in elegant prose. The book is bound in blue cloth with silver titles on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 011195

RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN.

Silver: The Life Story of an Atlantic Salmon.

London. Adam & Charles Black. 1947 [1931]. Later printing. Octavo (7 x 5). 95 pp. Illustrated frontispiece drawn by Bernard Venables. With six full-page illustrations. Haig-Brown’s first published book is always fresh and insightful because he was the best at what he did - descriptive writing cloaked in elegant prose. The book is bound in blue cloth with silver titles on the spine and front cover. Pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in a good dust jacket with faded titles.

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Book number: 011209

RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN.

Silver: The Life Story of an Atlantic Salmon.

First Edition. London. A. & C. Black, Ltd. 1931. First Edition. Octavo (7 x 5). 96 pp. Color illustrated frontispiece drawn by Capt. J. P. Moreton showing a hooked salmon leaping at the foot of a waterfall. Chapter vignettes. This was Haig-Brown's first book and it was the precursor to a magnificent literary career. The book is bound in the original bright green cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket (May McGregor's art deco illustrated dust jacket is perfect). An impressively beautiful example of this book. By far the nicest example I’ve seen in 30 years, and it’s likely the finest you’ll see as well. The book is in fine condition in an equally fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 011276

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN.

Sport Fisheries - General Evaluation.

[n.p.] Published by the British Columbia Resources Conference likely in 1964. Octavo (8 x 7). 6 pp. Haig-Brown’s essay warns the B. C. government that the sport fisheries were declining at an unsustainable rate and immediate remediation was needed to "enhance and protect the resources." The booklet is bound in tan printed wrappers. In fine condition.

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Book number: 011141

RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN.

The Tall Trees Fall. A Novel of Pacific Coast Loggers.

London. Collins. 1943. First United Kingdom Edition. Octavo (8 x 5 1/2). 288 pp. including glossary. Roderick Haig-Brown spent a good deal of his early life working in the logging camps in Washington state and on Vancouver Island in British Columbia as a cruiser and surveyor; his novel of loggers and their way of life was based on first-hand experience. The first United Kingdom edition was titled The Tall Trees Fall to appeal to a U. K. audience unfamiliar with the title of the American edition, Timber. A Novel of Pacific Coast Loggers. The glossary is worth a few minutes of your time. It explains the terms used by loggers to describe their trade and it will help with the reading of the text. The book is bound in brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear.

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Book number: 011124

RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN.

The Tall Trees Fall. A Novel of Pacific Coast Loggers.

London. Collins. 1943. First United Kingdom Edition. Octavo (8 x 5 1/2). 288 pp. including glossary. Roderick Haig-Brown spent a good deal of his early life working in the logging camps in Washington state and on Vancouver Island in British Columbia as a cruiser and surveyor; his novel of loggers and their way of life was based on first-hand experience. The first United Kingdom edition was titled The Tall Trees Fall to appeal to a U. K. audience unfamiliar with the title of the American edition, Timber. A Novel of Pacific Coast Loggers. The glossary is worth a few minutes of your time. It explains the terms used by loggers to describe their trade and it will help with the reading of the text. The book is bound in brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket. A pristine book. Fine in a fine bright dust jacket.

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Book number: 011147

RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN.

Tillbaka Till Floden. En Berattelse om Laxens Vandringar. {Return to the River}.

Stockholm, Sweden. Albert Bonniers Forlag. 1943. First Swedish Edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6). 231 pp. Illustrated color frontispiece. Illustrated with sixteen black and white plates by Charles De Feo. The plates in this edition are somewhat better than those in the American and Canadian editions because the Swedish publisher utilized a better grade of paper. Foreword by Professor Bertil Hanstrom. Haig-Brown’s compelling story about the life history of Spring, (a Chinook or Tyee salmon - your choice), from its birth and migration to the sea, and its return years later to its river of birth as an adult. The Swedish edition is a rare book. Bonniers published just a few hundred hard bound copies in 1943. Sales were slow, and in 1950 the publisher destroyed the remaining unsold copies. WorldCat finds one example in an institutional library, in Sweden. The book is bound in turquoise cloth with silver titles on the spine and a silver salmon on the front board. Pictorial dust jacket. A stunningly beautiful book. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 011158

HAIG-BROWN, RODERICK L.

Timber

USA, Grosset & Dunlap. 1942. Hardcover. Book, Closed page edges have light soiling, interior has an occasional spot. Dust jacket blurb is pasted on first free end paper. Boards have edge wear, heavy along bottom. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 046583

Catalogue: Fiction

RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN.

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}.

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 Timber’s narrative and Roderick’s motivations detailing his descriptions of the book’s protagonists; he thanks her for the favorable review. At the end of the letter, Haig-Brown writes that signing Mrs. McElfresh’s 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 publisher’s 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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Book number: 011161

RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN.

Timber: A Novel of the Pacific Coast Loggers.

New York. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers. 1942. Second Edition. Octavo (8 x 6). [vi], [1-2], 3-410 pp. including glossary. Despite the 1942 publication date, the book actually went on sale in 1943. Haig-Brown’s Timber was based on his time working in logging camps on Vancouver Island as a young man. The book is bound in the publisher’s brown cloth with yellow titles on the spine. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. The book is fine in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear.

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Book number: 011162