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Author: Prosek, James
Title: Fly-Fishing the 41st: Around the World on the 41st Parallel
Place: [New York]
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date: [2003]
Item # : 172463
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   181
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 632
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Description:
[6], 312, [1] pp. Illustrated with full-color plates; and an original hand-colored plate with two watercolor drawings of Irish flies by James Prosek, signed in pencil on the inserted leaf following the limitation leaf (as issued). 8vo. Half red Nigerian morocco and silk cloth, ruled in gilt, two gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, raised bands, top edge speckled (as issued), publisher’s red silk cloth slipcase with gilt-lettered morocco cover label. No. 4 of 18 deluxe hand-numbered copies. First Edition.
Signed by the author and publisher on the limitation page. Also, includes a folding art gallery pictorial card for an exhibition of James Prosek’s watercolors “41 Degrees North” in 2003, containing a 15-line autograph note signed by Prosek to Tony Lyons (publisher), dated April 6, 2003 regarding an invoice for the deluxe limited edition of the book and regarding a need to talk in person, laid in.
Condition:
Fine in fine slipcase.
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