Author: RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN.
Title: Return to the River: A Story of the Chinook Run. {Limited Edition. With a Roderick Haig-Brown Holograph Letter Laid-in Addressed to Henry Bruns, Author of Angling Books of the Americas}.
Description: New York. William Morrow and Company. 1941. Octavo (8 x 6). 260 pp. Limited Edition. Book number 186 of 475 copies published. Signed by Roderick Haig-Brown and the book's illustrator, Charles De Feo, on the limitation page. Illustrated color frontispiece. With sixteen exquisitely drawn plates of salmon and anglers by Charles De Feo. Laid-in is a holograph letter signed by Roderick Haig-Brown addressed to Hank Bruns, dated February 2, 1969. Mr. Bruns had sent several Haig-Brown titles to Roderick’s home in Campbell River for him to sign/inscribed. Haig-Brown’s letter describes some of the books and the re-packing of them, and he included a few of his rare pamphlets as well. With the original mailing envelope. Haig-Brown also inscribed the book to Hank Bruns on the half-title page. The book is bound in quarter red morocco with gilt titles and gray cloth. Top edge gilt. A beautiful, fine book, with the always present discolored paste downs resulting from the binder's glue. With Hank Bruns’ distinctive bookplate on the front paste down. Publisher’s grey cloth slip case. A fine book in a very good slip case with light edge wear. A unique example of this book. Signed by Author and Illustrator.

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