Timber: A Novel Of The Pacific Coast Loggers. {Inscribed & Signed By Roderick Haig-Brown & With A Holograph Letter Signed By Haig-Brown Presenting This, His Personal Copy Of Timber}. Roderick L. Haig-Brown.

New York. William Morrow & Company. 1942. First Edition. Octavo (8 x 6). [vi], [1-2], 3-410 pp. including glossary. Inscribed and signed by Roderick Haig-Brown in the year of publication on a tipped-in leaf facing the half-title page presenting Timber to the book editor of the Cincinnati Ohio Times Newspaper, Mona Harrop McElfresh. Blind-stamped on the tipped-in leaf: "Above Tide, / Campbell River, / British Columbia." Tipped-in on the reverse of the front end paper is a lengthy holograph letter penned by Haig-Brown addressed to Mrs. McElfresh discussing Timber's narrative and Roderick's motivations detailing his descriptions of the book's protagonists; he thanks her for the favorable review. At the end of the letter, Haig-Brown writes that signing Mrs. McElfresh's copy of Timber would be prohibitively expensive; shipping it to Campbell River and returning the book to her in Ohio, pointing out the high costs of Canadian import duties and sales tax. Generously, Haig-Brown sent her this copy of Timber. In my years of handling Haig-Brown books, this is the first example encountered where Haig-Brown modified one of his personal books in such a manner. The book is bound in the publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Illustrated end papers. Pictorial dust jacket. The book is fine in a near very good dust jacket with some soiling on the back panel. A unique book.