Fishing Atlantic Salmon The Flies and the Patterns
by Bates, Joseph D. Jr. & Pamela Bates Richards (edited by Bob Warren)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very good to fine/in very good to fine slipcase
- ISBN 10
- 0811706362
- ISBN 13
- 9780811706360
- Seller
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Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Two signed limited edition colour plates by John Swan. Fly photography by Michael D. Radencich; paintings and pencil sketches by John Swan. Over 160 colour plates illustrating more than 800 flies With chapters on natural history of the salmon; challenges of the rivers; salmon tackle; theories on fly selection; hooking and playing fish; salmon on the dry fly plus details on fishing Canada and New England, the British Isles, Eastern Europe and Iceland. This limited edition of Fishing Atlantic Salmon was hand-bound at the Harcourt Bindery of Boston, Massachusetts, in a three-quarter leather binding of Nigerian goatskin and silk and is hand-tooled in genuine gold leaf. Iris Nevins, of Johnsonburg, New Jersey, designed and hand-marbled the endpapers and slipcase panels. Tipped into each volume are two limited edition prints by John Swan of Portland, Maine and presentation pages executed by Alan James Robinson at The Press of the Sea Turtle, Easthampton, Mass. This edition was designed by Pamela Bates Richards. (last page)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Schooner Books Ltd (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45999
- Title
- Fishing Atlantic Salmon The Flies and the Patterns
- Author
- Bates, Joseph D. Jr. & Pamela Bates Richards (edited by Bob Warren)
- Format/Binding
- In three-quarter blue Nigerian goatskin and blue silk moire cloth, gilt title to spine, gilt borders and marbled end-papers, top
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good to fine
- Jacket Condition
- in very good to fine slipcase
- Edition
- Limited edition of 250 this P.C. 10 signed by Pamela Bates Richa
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0811706362
- ISBN 13
- 9780811706360
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books
- Place of Publication
- Mechanicsburg, PA
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Maine Iceland
- Size
- Quarto
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About the Seller
Schooner Books Ltd
Biblio member since 2007
Halifax, Nova Scotia
About Schooner Books Ltd
We are an open shop with a large general inventory of rare used and out of print books.We have been in business for over 30 years and welcome vistors to both our open shop as well as to our internet sites.Our specialties inclued Atlantic Province history and literature,early Canadiana, genealogy, illustarted books, Children's books, fine bindings, etc, etc.
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