Author: RUSSELL CHATHAM.
Title: The Angler's Coast. {Signed by Russell Chatham}.
Description: New York. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1976. Octavo (8 x 5). 158 pp. First Edition. Introduction by Thomas McGuane. Signed, dated, and with a small drawing by Russ on the half-title page: "Russell Chatham / DEEP CREEK" / [Papermill Creek - Tomales Bay monogram] / "1979". The book’s text illustrations were drawn by Russ. This is Russ Chatham’s and Bill Schaadt’s monograph, a fixation on their extraordinary Pacific Coast fly fishing experiences - Herculean distance casting, obsessive/ compulsive feats of non-stop, day and night fishing for 50 pound salmon, verbal jousting for the best casting spots, and it concludes with Russ’s laconic and inspirational moments described in the chapter "A Sometime Island of Dreams." These fishing stories and essays are the finest written during the last 40 years. The book is bound in green and gray cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A nice book. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Author.

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