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A History of Fly Fishing For Trout
by Hills, John Waller
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, (1997). Collector's Edition. Fine in full, dark gray leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations in the five compartments. The top edge of the text block is gilt. The end sheets are of silk and there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. An octavo measuring 8 3/8" by 5 1/8". Without a dust jacket as issued. This copy is still contained within the publisher's original shrink wrap. Containing 244 pages of text including an index. Illustrated with a color frontispiece painting. With an introduction by Paul Schullery. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of Library of Fly-Fishing Classics which is no longer published and sold by The Easton Press. A very handsome, tight, clean copy with no prior owner's names, dates, notations or book plates.
Synopsis
A History of Fly Fishing for Trout is a fly fishing book written by John Waller Hills published in London in 1921.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB33040
- Title
- A History of Fly Fishing For Trout
- Author
- Hills, John Waller
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Conn.
- Date Published
- (1997)
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- Fine
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- Tight
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Text Block
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- Octavo
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