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Item Details
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| Author: |
Jennings, Preston J. |
| Title: |
A Book of Trout Flies. Containing a List of the Most Important American Stream Insects & Their Imitations |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
The Derrydale Press |
| Date: |
1935 |
| Item # : |
152832 |
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| Sale Number |
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299 |
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180 |
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| The Angling Library of David B. Wood, with Derrydale Press & other Sporting Books |
| Sale Date |
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12/02/2004 |
| Price realized |
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$ 43125 |
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| Description: |
| 2 volumes. xvi, [2], 190 pp. 11 plates by Alma W. Froderstrom, of which 7 are hand-colored, plus two black-and-white photographic plates, including the frontispiece. Foreword by Herman Spieth. Afterword by Eugene Connett. Printed on Rives paper. Accompanied by a display volume containing 30 mounted flies tied by Jennings (12 wet, and 18 dry). 10x6½, uniform green morocco and cloth (display volume is quarter morocco, text volume is half morocco), spines gilt in compartments with fly gilt-stamps, top edge of text volume gilt; green cloth slipcase, bound by James MacDonald of New York. First Edition. No. 24 of 25 copies of the deluxe issue. Signed by the author and the illustrator on the half-title. Signed by Spieth (foreword) and by Connett (afterword). Additionally signed and inscribed "Tied by P.J. Jennings" next to the flies. |
| Fine copy of the deluxe edition, with 30 hand-tied flies. Also the first edition of the first American trout stream entomology. Jennings (1892-1962) was an extremely influential fly-tyer; his flies and fly-tying theories are still frequently cited today. "This book contains an accurate scientific identification of the most important flies found in the United States, written in a manner which the angler can understand and enjoy. The proper artificial for each is described. Nymphs and their imitations are fully covered, as are minnows and their accompanying bucktails and streamers. The materials for fly dressing and their use in tying flies are thoroughly covered" (Derrydale Bibliography). This copy with bookplate of Robert Patterson on front free endpaper. Bruns J16; Litchfield 91. |
| Condition: |
| Mild wear to slipcase corners; a few minor dings to spines; overall fine, unfaded, crisp and partially unopened. |
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