The Western Angler: An Account Of Pacific Salmon And Western Trout. {Two Volumes}. Roderick Haig-Brown.

New York. The Derrydale Press. 1939. Limited Edition. Set number 57 of 950 copies published. Two volumes: Vol. 1: 200 pp. Vol. 2: 191 pp. including index. Quartos (12 x 9). With the folding map of British Columbia fishing waters opposite page 3 in volume 1. (About 325 to 360 copies of the 950 sets published were issued with the folding map; thus these sets are first states). Color frontispiece showing flies dressed by William Nation, Tommy Brayshaw, Harkley & Haywood, Roderick Haig-Brown, and General Money in each volume. Exquisite color plates of fish by E.B.S. Logier. Black and white plates. Charts and tables, one folding. The Western Angler remains the finest reference on trout and salmon fishing on the Pacific Coast. The book is bound in the original red cloth with gilt titles and gilt fly on the front covers and spines. There's some discoloration on the outside fore-edge on volume one, otherwise a clean set. Near very good.