Steelhead Water, Special


Limited signed edition of 60 copies, with a fly tied by the author tipped in. Also signed by the illustrator, Loren Smith. This is number one, the author's copy. (Frank Amato, the publisher, always takes number 2.) Small tear in the upper dust jacket, which is visible in the picture right.

This edition has been long sold out. Fly is Garth, tied by the author, as illustrated in Trey Combs's 1997 book and is tied on a gold-plated Alec Jackson salmon fly hook.

Price: $350

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steelhead and the Floating Line, Special

Limited signed edition of 160 copies, with a fly tied by the author tipped in. This is number one, the author's copy.

Fly is Spade, tied by the author and its originator, as illustrated in Trey Combs's 1997 book. The  hook is a gold-plated Alec Jackson salmon.

Price: $350

A second copy, number 98. Same as above.

Price: $150


 

 


 

 

 

 

Flyfishing Gear and Books
 Fly Rods, Hardy Reels, Spey Rods, etc.


Classic Fly Fishing Tackle
 (Old but still good stuff, handsome and dependable)

For orders or inquiries:

8208 317th Place Northwest
Lake Ketchum,
Stanwood, Washington 98292
phone 360-629-9074

Robert Arnold, Sole Proprietor

First, OUR OWN,
New or As New

Both these books can be obtained either signed or signed and dedicated. No additional charge, but $3.50 postage on all book single purchases.

 

Steelhead Water, Frank Amato Publications, Portland, Ore., 1993. Illustrations by Loren Smith. Hard cover, imitation blue leather, with dust jacket, (shown above).296 pages. Out of print.

One copy presently available, without dj. Clean. $50. Sorry, but this is the market's going price.

 

 

 

Steelhead and the Floating Line, Frank Amato Publications, Portland, Ore., 1996. Quality paperback edition. Illustrations by Loren Smith, plus color photos of river scenes and fly plates of steelhead and salmon flies. 167 pages, plus 16 page color section. In print.

Price: $19.95

 

 

Country/City: A Year at The River, Kingfisher Press, 1998. 278 pages. Illustrations by Loren Smith. Paperback edition: $19.95. Blue cloth edition, $34.95. (There also is a limited black leather edition for $49.95.)

In his third book, Bob Arnold broadens his flyfishing themes to include the life cycles of his favorite river, the North Fork of the Stillaguamish, in Northwestern Washington state. What began as a way for this writer/flyfisher to record his days while waiting for a knee injury to heal becomes a journey through a year of a man's life and a salute to what  he observes in the physical world around him. He studies the drift of caddis larvae along the river bottom, vine maples unfurling, arrival and departure of the great blue heron, various berries coming into season, as he shuttles back and forth between his home in Seattle and camping on his river property, Often there is bad weather. Leaves and needles turn to mulch, steelhead fry become smolts, and there are disputes with neighbors, as he brings water and electricity to  his camp. The city holds attractions such as classical music concerts and art galleries, but the country wins out in his broad, wild appeal. Eventually he chooses the country to retire to, but to a lake, not a river.

Cover design is again by Loren Smith, and it is of the old Hazel Hole on his river.

The author would be happy to sign or inscribe this book when purchased from this website. Shipping as above.

Price: $19.95 plus postage of $3.50

USED BOOKS


First Trade Editions of Roderick L. Haig-Brown Fisherman's Series,
all with dust jackets, for sale here.
 

Shipping and handling extra: $3.50, first book,
 $1.00 each additional book with the same order
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Fishherman's Spring
by Haig-Brown, Roderick Langmere

 

First edition. Hard cover Publisher: Morrow and Company, New York, 1951. Illustrations by Louis Darling. Very Good. Dust jacket. First printing.  222 pages.  Owner's penciled signature on flyleaf [mine]. A few edge tears on dust jacket.

Price: $75 SOLD

Fisherman's Summer
by Haig-Brown, Roderick Langmere

First edition. Hard cover Publisher: Morrow and Company, New York, 1959. Illustrations by Louis Darling. Very Good or Fine. Dust jacket with protective vinyl cover. First printing.  253 pages.  Owner's penciled signature on flyleaf [mine]. My penciled notes about dark flies inside back cover.

Price: $90 SOLD

Fisherman's Fall
by Haig-Brown, Roderick Langmere

First edition. Hard cover Publisher: Morrow and Company, New York, 1964. . Fine. Dust jacket immaculate. No illustrations. First printing.  279 pages. 

Price: $80 SOLD

Fisherman's Winter
by Haig-Brown, Roderick Langmere

First edition. Hard cover Publisher: Morrow and Company, New York, 1954. A few illustrations by Louis Darling. Very Good. Dust jacket lightly worn on edges and price has been clipped off. First printing.  288 pages.  Owner's penciled signature on flyleaf [mine].  Note: this book is not about a Pacific Northwest winter, but H-B's trip to Chile.
 

Price: $75 SOLD

Return to the River
by Roderick Haig-Brown, Roderick Langmere

Fourth Printing. Hard cover. Publisher: Morrow and Company, New York, 1941 . 248 pages. Illustrations by Charles DeFeo. No dust jacket. A fairly clean reading copy.

Price: $50 SOLD

A River Never Sleeps
by Haig-Brown, Roderick Langmere

First edition. Hard cover. Publisher: Morrow and Company, New York, 1946  352 pages. Illustrations by Louis Darling. Very Good or Fine. Dust jacket with protective vinyl cover. [Alas, the previous owner's signature (mine) in ink on flyleaf, with fraternal affiliation.] A seminal book on Western fishing, the first in which H-B follows the seasons around the year broken down by months.

Price:  $100 SOLD


The Western Angler
by Haig-Brown, Roderick Langmere

First trade edition. Hard cover. Publisher: Morrow and Company, New York, 1947  356 pages. Illustrations by T. Brayshaw. Very Good or Fine. [Alas, the previous owner's signature (mine) in ink on flyleaf, with fraternal affiliation.] Dust jacket with protective vinyl cover.

Price: $90 SOLD

Measure of the Year
by Haig-Brown, Roderick Langmere

First edition. Hard cover. Publisher: Morrow and Company, New York, 1950  260 pages. Dust jacket torn a little around edges. A book that illustrates by months the author's life in the north woods, a book that made him and this life known to many anglers who took him as their role model.

Price: $80 SOLD

Special

The Western Angler, Two Volume Edition, Derrydale Press, Lyon, Mississippi, edition of 2500 copies bound in black leather stamped in gold. 1991. Marbled endpapers. Compete text from original plates and all photos, etc., reproduced.

by Haig-Brown, Roderick Langmere

The original limited edition contained many of H-B's black and white photographs, plus color reproductions of maps, fly plates, and fish lent by the Department of Fisheries Ottawa, Canada, some by the famed E. B. S. Logier. The original edition was long out of print and fetching thousands of dollars per copy on the antiquarian market.


Original 1939 edition in red leather: if available, would cost about $1900 USA.

[Note: when a boy, I used to visit Seattle Public Library and, having washed my hands and had them examined by a kindly librarian, been carefully handed these two volumes for library use only. I was led to a nearby table.

I marveled over the photos and dreamed about visiting Vancouver Island at a time before all the rivers  (including Haig-Brown's beloved Campbell) were damned and their runs decimated. The Campbell was, too, but is now stocked annually from a hatchery.]

When a cheap trade edition was published in 1947, I bought it and reread the compressed version with great disappointment. Little did I dream the two-volume folio edition would ever be reprinted. But, here it was in 1991. It too is now out of print, too, and bringing a steep price on the antiquarian market.

My two-volume 1991 edition is complete and bound in black leather, also stamped in gold. It has been carefully read through once and suffered no handling damage [which is unusual with me]. I part with it reluctantly, but part with it I must. It should probably be owned by somebody who has read almost all of Haig-Brown (as I have) and needs only this set of books to complete his personal journey.

Price: $975, post paid

The "Land and Water" Salmon Flies, 1886-1902, The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1993. Black cloth, with leather spine and gold lettering. Many color plates of Kelson flies. 128 pages. Boxed in black slip case. Marbled end papers. Tight. As new.

by Kelson, George M.

A fly tier's delight. In fact, without this book one cannot tie the full range of complex Atlantic salmon flies. In valuable to the advanced fly tier. Contains the dressings for Kelson's flies according to Mr. Kelson, and the famous "cards" which were printed under his supervision to illustrate their proportions, colors, and materials. With an introduction by J. W. Coleby.

Price: $200

The Salmon Fly, The Classics of Salmon Fishing, John Culler and Sons, Camden S.C.  1995. Blue cloth stamped with gold. Dust jacket. 510 pages. Faithfully reproduces the 1895 or 6 edition and appear to be from the same plates. Wyman & Sons, Ltd. Printers, Carter Lane, Doctors' Commons, London, England. Many line drawings and seven full color plates. Introduction by Jared C. Lobdell, which includes a biography of Mr. Kelson and the history of publishing his cards and books.

by Kelson, George M.

Price: $100

 

A Book on Angling, Being a Complete Treatise on THE ART OF ANGLING IN EVERY BRANCH with Explanatory Plates, Etc. The Classics of Salmon Fishing, John Culler and Sons, Camden S.C.  1995. 472 pages. Blue cloth with gold lettering. 12 color plates and many line drawings from the time. Includes original ads for the book's promotion. Dust jacket with color reproduction of flies.

A classic. A good fly tier needs to have at the least attempted all of these flies. Not so difficult as the Kelson flies and they will still catch fish today. The story goes that Francis was given a choice of a different surname, but he would have to give up the inheritance that enabled him to fish freely all of  his life, and chose the redundant name accordingly: hence this book and all the lore in it and the opportunities to fish so many different river of Great Britain and to record his findings.

 by Francis Francis

Price: $75

 

Atlantic Salmon Fishing , Foreword by Richard C. Hunt, Illustrated by Ogen M. Pleissner and Robert Nisbet, with photographs, drawings and maps. The Derrydale Press, 1993. 2500 copies. Based on the Derrydale edition of 1937. Black leather, stamped in gold, with four-color fishing scene glued on the cover. Many black and white photos and color paintings by Pleissner. Line drawings. An important chapter on "Greased Line Fishing," with a photo of Arthur Wood and George LaBranche and three black Labs. Invaluable if you've never seen the book, and an education in fishing for large seagoing fish all by itself.

by Charles Phair

Price: $65

The Art of Fly Making, The Derrydale Press, 1993, 259 pages, brown leather,  with black and gold stamping, edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Volume X in Fly Fisherman's Gold Series. Many black and white illustrations, but none in color. Appears to be reproduced from the original plates in 1855 in Soho.

Charmingly subtitled "Comprising Angling & Dying of Colours with engravings of salmon & trout flies shewing the process of the gentle craft as taught in the pages. With descriptions of flies for the season of the year as they come out of the water. Rewritten & revised by the author Blacker, Himself, Fishing Tackle Maker."

Includes detailed tying instructions for these historically important  flies and how they should be fished. A bit pedantic, but Blacker is an important precursor to Mr. Kelson and his work.
 

by William Blacker

Price: $75

 

Tying the Classic Salmon Fly: A modern Approach to Traditional Techniques, Stackpole Books, 1997, folio, 226 pages. Many, many excellent color plates taken by Radencich.

edited by Michael D. Radencich, with articles by Wayne Luallen, Mark Waslick, Bob Veverka, Marvin Nolte, Ted Roubal, Stack Scoville, Eugene Sunday, and Darwin Atlkins.

The definitive book on advanced salmon fly tying for our time and comparable to Mr. Kelson's instructions from 100 years earlier. If there is but one book the advanced salmon and steelhead flytyer needs, it is this one. This book, plus access to rare and exotic materials, is all that the tyer needs in addition to talent, manual dexterity, and patience. As new.

Price: $50

Salmon Fishing
by Taverner, Eric & John Scott

Edition: 1st Edition Thus Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co., London Date Published: 1936? Description: Cr8vo. Part of the Lonsdale Library series. Illustrated with plates (some photo) and charts. The frontis is color indicating dressed hooks. Good copy in the original tan cloth. Spine in gilt.

This is the classic flytyer's guide to flies and casting (including Spey casting) and was the advanced fisher's guide until the 1980s. Fly plates are beautiful, and the description of the various Spey casts was the only available source until the new graphite Spey rods were developed fifty years later. Contributions by A.H.E. Wood and George LaBranche, among others. Many black and white photos, as well.

Price: $95

 

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