Author: RUSSELL CHATHAM.
Title: Dark Waters: Essays, Stories and Articles. {With an Original Colored Drawing by Russell Chatham Laid-in}.
Description: Livingston, Montana. Clark City Press. 1988. First edition. Octavo (9 x 7). 208 pp. Illustrated by the author. Foreword by Nick Lyons. With a tipped-in color print of a Striped Bass illustrated by Chatham on the title page. Laid-in is a colored pencil drawing by Russell showing a fly fisherman (it’s Russ) wading waist deep in a river fly casting. This original drawing was published by Russ in his 1978 book, "Silent Seasons," and it appears on page 197. The drawing measures 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches and it has Russ’s Papermill Creek/Tomales Bay Monogram and the year (77), which can be seen on the back of his waders at water level. These are compelling stories by a master writer; Russ wrote an especially sensitive piece on Roderick Haig-Brown. With Russell Chatham’s death in November 2019, the West Coast voice of Steelhead and Salmon preservation expressed through his writings, is at an end. The book is bound in white wrappers with green titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The original colored drawing has some soiling on and near the image; it was professionally treated and cleaned by the fine folks at the Green Dragon Bindery in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. It is in near very good condition.

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