ALTEN: RED LETTER DAYS. THE SALMON FISHING DIARIES OF COLONEL SIR NORTH DALRYMPLE-HAMILTON. Edited and compiled by Roy Flury. Standard Edition.

2009 1st edition. 4to (200 X 262mm). Pp106 + colophon. B/w photographs and line drawings. Green cloth, gilt spine title and vignette on front.

"A very fine salmon fisherman, North Dalrymple-Hamilton was also an enthusiastic diarist. Not only did he keep a personal diary of his own fishing, but he and the Duke of Roxburghe kept records of all fish caught on their visits to Alten between 1910 and 1934. He wrote a particularly detailed report, the size of a small book, on the events of 1929, and soon after this he was inspired to complete his "Red Letter Days," an account written by hand and bound in leather. This is the first published edition of that manuscript, privately published by Charles B. Wood III, and edited by Roy Flury, the author (withTheodore Dalenson) of Alten (1991) and Alten Reflections (1993). Issued in three editions: Standard Edition - 150 copies bound by Acme Bookbinders in cloth; Deluxe Edition - 60 copies bound in half leather and slipcased by Harcourt Bindery; Collector's Edition - 19 copies printed on large paper (larger than the regular editions) and hand-bound by Gray Parrot.