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Author: Haig-Brown, Roderick L.
Title: The Western Angler: An Account of Pacific Salmon and Western Trout
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Derrydale Press
Date Published: [1939]
Description:

2 volumes. 9 color plates of flies and fish printed in relief, 5 plates of drawings, and 16 plates from photographs. (4to) original red cloth, lettered in gilt. No. 539 of 950 copies. First Edition.

The classic work on angling for trout and salmon in the lakes, streams and rivers of British Columbia and Vancouver Island during the 1920’s and 30’s. Part guide book, instruction manual, and biological treatise, this work is informed throughout by Haig-Brown’'s practical experience fishing the waters about which he writes, and his reluctance to introduce change into complex habitats through ill-considered management efforts. Lacking the publisher's slipcase and the folding map which is believed to have been inserted in just the first 300 copies. Bruns H20; Seigel 156.

Spines sunned, light wear; very good.