A River Never Sleeps.
by Roderick L. Haig-Brown
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Citrus Heights, California, United States
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About This Item
New York. William Morrow & Company. 1946. First Edition. Octavo (9 x 6). 352 pp. Illustrated by Louis Darling with 12 full-page black and white plates. A River Never Sleeps is Haig-Brown's most well-known book, and deservedly so. He writes eloquently of fishing his home rivers, the Campbell and the Nimpkish, as well as the streams of his youth in England. Haig-Brown's descriptions and accounts of the men and women who helped shape and influence his early life are central to the books themes. The book is bound in beige cloth with green titles and decorations. Pictorial dust jacket (In my opinion the prettiest jacket to ever grace a fishing book) The book is fine and clean in a near fine dust jacket with just a bit of light edge wear. . First Edition..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011152
- Title
- A River Never Sleeps.
- Author
- Roderick L. Haig-Brown
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
Terms of Sale
Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
For questions please telephone 916.728.5019. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. Return any book for any reason within 10 days after receiving it and your money will be promptly returned. All returned books must be in same condition in which they were sent. Reciprocal terms to professional members of the trade. California residents please add 7.75% sales tax.
About the Seller
Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
Biblio member since 2008
Citrus Heights, California
About Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books
Bruce Cave Fine Books specializes in quality fishing books – particularly fly fishing for trout, steelhead, Pacific and Atlantic salmon, striped, black, and smallmouth bass plus any other fish that’ll eat a well-dressed fly; fresh and salt water fishing anywhere on the planet, ranging from picky rainbows in the North Fork of the Feather River near Chester in Northern California to five hundred pound river monsters at Cao Lh in the Mekong Delta. That’s me in the top photo at age 10 in 1957 on the steps of our now gone cabin at Prattville on the west shore of Lake Almanor (it was elegant) – I’m holding the largest trout I’ve ever caught (seven pounds), and needed my grandfather’s helping hand to do it; that fish caught my imagination. And that’s me in the second photo taken in late October 2014 on the same cabin steps, 57 years later, holding an imaginary fish. Between the intervening years I realized that reading about fishing could be nearly as good as fishing itself. I also came to know that fly fishing can be a metaphor for life; there are those moments in fishing that require neither stream nor fish, and sometimes the least important thing about fly fishing is the fishing. Now it’s catch and release for the most part – time spent in rivers and lakes together with age encourages it. Fly fishing is timeless; fishermen aren’t. I think Robert Traver had it right: I fish ‘because maybe one day I will catch a mermaid’; and I ‘don’t regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant - and not nearly so much fun.' A life of fly fishing is beautiful and simple. I’m always interested in purchasing good books, booklets, pamphlets, catalogues, brochures and other ephemera on these subjects and encourage you to either email me at brucecave@comcast.net or telephone 916.728.5019. Sincerely, Bruce Cave.
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