Leisenring james e (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1971). 1971 1st edition thus. Small 8vo (130 x 193mm). Pp159. B/w photographs and illustrations. Blue cloth, spine titled in silver. Very good copy in complete dust-wrapper. First published in 1941 as "The art of tying the wet fly." Jim Leisenring, who died in 1951, was the towering figure in American wet -fly fishing - the "Skues of America." Vernon S. (Pete) Hidy was his friend and pupil who later perfected many of his techniques. Chapters include: The art of tying the wet fly: The art of fly tying; Tying silk; Wax; The hook; Hackle; Body materials; Spinning a body; Wing material; My method of tying a fly; Nymphs; Fly patterns and dressings; Fishing a wet fly. The art of fishing the flymph: The flymph phenomenon; The dry fly and the flymph - a parallel; Fishing the flymph. .…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Illus., 7.5 x 5", cream colored cloth, 81pp. Covers heavily soiled/stained, spine cocked, contents very good condition. "As told to V.S. Hidy".