Classic Rods and Rodmakers

New York: Winchester Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1976). First Edition. Hardcover. 0876911785 . No signatures. 15mm and smaller tears to margins of dust-jacket. Some edhesive staining to margins of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; x, 246 pages. Grey boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 278 x 214mm. Black and white photographic illustrations. Contents: Introduction; The Classic Rod: Early Rod History; Stages of Rod Evolution and How to Recognize Them; Eastern Rodbuilders: Hiram Lewis Leonard; The E. F. Payne Rod Company; Charles F. Orvis; The Thomas Rod Company; The Edwards Rodmaking Family - I; The Edwards Rodmaking Family - II; Harold Steele Gillum; Edmund Everett Garrison; More Eastern Rodbuilders; Middle-American Rodbuilders: Lyle L. Dickerson; The Paul H. Young Rod Company; More Middle-American Rodbuilders; Western Rodbuilders: Edwin Courtney Powell; Walton Powell; The R. L. Winston Rod Company; The G. H. Howells Rod Company; More Western Rodbuilders; Collecting Classic Rods: Selection of Classic Fly Rods; Care of Split Bamboo Rods; Buying and Collecting Classic/Antique Rods; Index. "Today's advanced quad and hollow-construction fly-rod designs are a far cry from the ash and lancewood rods of the early nineteenth century. While the modern American fly rod perhaps began with Samuel Phillippe, it tooktook the undeniable genius of Hiram Leonard to bring it worldwide acclaim. Proceeding chronologically, and moving across the country, Martin J. Keane investigates the handiwork of virtually very master rod-craftsmen, and considers every major development in the craft over the last hundred years." - from dust-jacket blurb. .