FishingBanter - View Single Post

William Claspy · December 8th, 2005, 03:48 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

On 12/7/05 5:07 PM, in article ,
" wrote:

If you aren't already familiar with it, you might get ahold of "Idyll of
the Split Bamboo Rod" by George Holden. I'm fairly sure there was at
least one reprint, and should be readily available.

I'm not familiar with it, beyond the mention of Holden in the Garrison book.
We haven't got it, but there is a copy of the original 1920 edition
downtown. The Derrydale edition (current Derrydale) is still available
apparently. Interesting that the original is "Idyl..." while the modern
edition has "corrected" the title to "Idyll..."

Interesting - don't recall that I've never noticed that.

Hey, I'm a trained professional. Don't try this at home. :-)

I'm not sure
where my copy is, and given the situation, it may be gone.

I have some pictures taken by the director of the Tulane library showing the
state of some of their collections. Not pretty. I was actually going to
point to them here on ROFF in an OT post. But then realized that as
devastated as those collections were, they were not people, but books.
Seems kind of trivial in comparison to other things that are now, as you
say, gone. Still and all, hope your copy is high and dry somewhere.

Bill