Author: RODERICK L. HAIG-BROWN.
Title: Alison’s Fishing Birds. {Limited Edition Signed with Two Additional Hand-Colored Plates Laid-in}.
Description: Vancouver, British Columbia. Colophon Books. 1980. Quarto. (10 1/2 x 7 1/4). 40 pp. Limited Edition (First State). Book number 377 of 500 copies published. Signed by Valerie Haig-Brown at the conclusion of her Preface. A hand colored Kingfisher drawn by Jim Rimmer as frontispiece, tipped-in on the title page, signed and dated by him. Laid-in this book are two additional hand colored Kingfisher plates by Jim Rimmer; quite attractive and suitable for framing. Hand colored chapter headings showing the five bird species encountered by Alison - Dipper - Kingfisher - Heron - Mergansers and Osprey. Text illustrations showing Alison with the five birds. "Alison" was likely a composite of Haig-Brown’s two young daughters, Valerie and Mary. The story was originally penned by Roderick Haig-Brown in 1939-1940. "It is rather well worth writing about all Alison's birds," Haig-Brown wrote, and indeed it is. It’s a charming book for all ages. The book is bound in gray cloth with gilt titles on the spine and and a blind-stamped Osprey on the front cover. A nice book. Fine.

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