Hat Creek & The McCloud - by Bill Barich (Canto Bello Book Number 2) by Micah Schwaberow

Hat Creek & The McCloud - by Bill Barich (Canto Bello Book Number 2) by Micah Schwaberow

Hat Creek & The McCloud - by Bill Barich (Canto Bello Book Number 2)

Micah Schwaberow

Title

Hat Creek & The McCloud - by Bill Barich (Canto Bello Book Number 2)

 
Artist
Year
1988  
Technique
linen-bound book with six tipped-in color woodcuts 
Image Size
approx. 2 x 2" each image 
Signature
unsigned 
Edition Size
87/150 (first and only edition) 
Annotations
typeset text throughout, including original dustjacket 
Reference
 
Paper
woodcuts: cream Japanese wove; sheets: Dulcet 80 lb; handmade endpapers with stamped fishing fly pattern 
State
published 
Publisher
Engdahl Typography, Santa Rosa, CA (red cat seal on dustjacket and colophon) 
Inventory ID
PARE108 
Price
SOLD
Description

This book was published by Lee Engdahl, a writer, poet, typographer, designer, and publisher based for many years in the North Bay. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he published a series of fine-press books under the "Canto Bello Series", including works by M.F.K. Fisher and Raymond Carver.

Bill Barich is an American travel, sport, and short fiction writer whose piece, "Hat Creek and the McCloud", was first published by the New Yorker (December 5, 1983). A recounting of a visit with a friend to one of California's most celebrated natural areas and their fly fishing adventure.

Hat Creek is situated in the Shasta National Forest while the McCloud river flows through Shasta and Siskyou Counties. Both are in Northern California.