Author: RODERICK HAIG-BROWN.
Title: The Western Angler: An Account of Pacific Salmon and Western Trout. {Two Volumes. Inscribed by Roderick Haig-Brown to Legendary Washington State Angler, Walter Johnson. With Original Photos of Roderick Haig-Brown and Walter Johnson Laid-in}.
Description: First Edition. New York. The Derrydale Press. 1939. Limited Edition. Set number 381 of 950 copies published. Two volumes: Vol. 1: 200 pp. Vol. 2: 191 pp. including index. Quartos (12 x 9). Inscribed and signed by Roderick Haig-Brown in 1947 to Walter Johnson on the half-title page (both volumes signed by Haig-Brown). Laid-in are several original color photos of Walt Johnson and Roderick Haig-Brown. Lightly tipped-in on the half-title page is a note in Walt Johnson's hand, written near the end of his life, presenting the two volumes to a close friend; the remainder of the photos are kept in a tipped-in envelope. Color frontispiece showing flies dressed by Roderick Haig-Brown, Tommy Brayshaw, William Nation, Gen. Noel Money, and Harkley & Haywood in both volumes. With the folding map of British Columbia fishing waters opposite page 3 in volume one. Exquisite color plates of fish by E.B.S. Logier. Black and white plates. Charts and tables, one folding. Walter Johnson was a gifted steelhead fly fisherman who enjoyed great success fishing the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River and Deer Creek in Washington state, and he is credited with the development of many effective fly patterns for the region. He was also elected President of the Washington Fly Fishing Club. This is a nice example of the best work on Western trout and salmon fly fishing and its fisheries by Roderick Haig-Brown, who is without contradiction the best writer on the subject. A unique set. The two volumes are clean, bright, and in fine condition in a beautiful, custom slip case bound in red morocco with the title in gilt on the side panel. Signed by Author.

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