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UK: Adam & Charles Black. Good. Hardcover. 1959. d/j had been plastic protected -d/j price clipped .

Bovey Tracey, Devon. The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1994.. 8vo. xx+160pp. Frontispiece and other colour and b/w plates. Quarter bound in navy leather over blue cloth, gilt. Ribbon marker Cloth slipcase. A fine copy. Edition limited to 950 copies.. A beautifully presented facsimile edition.

Adam & Charles Black, 1959. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine, faintly edgeworn dust jacket in mylar cover..

Devon, England. The Flyfisher’s Classic Library. 1994. Octavo. (8 1/2 x 6). xx, 159 pp. including index. Deluxe limited edition. Book number 26 of 55 copies published. With an Elver Fly, conceived by Authur Ransome and dressed by Annie Douglas, on a size 8 up-eye salmon hook, mounted within an oval recess on the inside of the front cover. Signed by Annie Douglas under the fly. Color frontispiece showing several salmon flies, including the Elver, which is dressed with the feathers from the Blue Vulturine Guineafowl. Introduction by Jeremy Swift. Color plus black and white plates. Arthur Ransome was an inquisitive angler who developed several effective fly patterns as well as an angler with eclectic tastes. In this book he also covers fishing books, fly fishing authors, and fishing companions. The book is bound in full brown morocco with gilt titles on the spine and front cover decorations. Marbled end papers. All edges gilt. The book is kept on a matching brown drop-back box with gilt titles on… Read More

1994 THE FLYFISHER`S CLASSIC LIBRARY. LIMITED TO 55 NUMBERED COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 20. IN FINE CONDITION - FULL BROWN LEATHER CONTAINED IN A FINE SILK-LINED SOLANDER BOX. AN ELVER FLY TIED BY ANNIE DOUGLAS IS INSERTED INTO THE FRONT PASTEDOWN. BEVELLED BOARDS, AEG, MARBLED ENDPAPERS. EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS WITH SIX IN COLOUR. THIS EDITION IS FROM THE FIRST EDITION OF 1959. VERY SCARCE.

The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1994. Leather Bound. Fine/Near Fine. LIMITED DELUXE EDITION 1994. Edition of only 55 copies, this is copy 3. Book is in Fine condition with no noted flaws. Outer box is Near Fine, with slight sun fading next to spine edges in the interior. Includes a fly hand-tied by Annie Douglas, inset on inside front cover with the fly tier's initials in ink and protective textured tissue overlay. Text is printed on archival paper. Approximately 9.5" x 6.5". Color frontispiece is one of eight illustrations; 6 are in color. Bound in full publisher's brown morocco, gilt lettering, decoration and rules to spine, gilt fish design on front cover, blind rules to edges of front cover, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, gold silk bookmark, housed in a brown silk-lined drop-down box with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and embossed gilt fish design on front cover. Books that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and… Read More