Author: RALPH WAHL; RODERICK HAIG-BROWN.
Title: Come Wade the River. {Limited Edition Signed by Ralph Wahl and Roderick Haig-Brown}.
Description: Seattle, Washington. A Salisbury Press Book. 1971. Limited Edition. Book number 68 of 250 copies published. Signed by Ralph Wahl and Roderick Haig-Brown on the title page. Folio (13 x 10). 114 pp. A magnificent book combining Ralph Wahl’s beautiful black and white photography of Northwest Steelhead and Trout rivers together with the elegant prose of Roderick Haig-Brown. Ralph Wahl initially crafted two handmade copies of Come Wade the River in 1970. He presented one of the books to Roderick Haig-Brown. Haig-Brown was impressed with the work and he encouraged Mr. Wahl to commercially publish it, and here we are. Haig-Brown’s copy of the handmade example is held in Special Collections Department at University of British Columbia. With the bookplate of Wilbur G. Downs, the world-famous American virologist, naturalist, and former clinical professor at Yale.The book is bound in brown and green cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Green cloth slip case. A fine book and slip case.

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