t e pryce tannatt (12 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

1st ed. With numerous images, 108 p. Dust-jacket a bit stained, otherwise very fine copy. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 Small 8°, original cloth-binding with dust-jacket.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Fabric & Board. Zustand: Very Good +. No Jacket. Author (illustrator). 1st Edition. Blue fabric covers with gilt title and decoration to front & spine, slight edge wear with a couple of nicks to bottom front cover, spine slightly faded. 248 numbered pages including index & b/w & colour illustrations which are tissue guarded, unmarked pages. Binding tight. Size 14 x 20.2 cm two scaps of paper from previous owner enclosed.

Hard Cover. Zustand: F. Limited Edition. 8vo. original full black goatskin gilt, raised bands, marbled boards gilt, silk marker band, aeg (trifling marks to leather, else as new); pp. xvi (last blank), 248, with colour frontispiece, 10 full page plates (some in colour) + 101 text figures. A fine copy of a magnificently presented work, lacking the clamshell case. Number 28 of a limited edition of 55 specially bound de luxe copies, including a replica of one of Pryce-Tannatt's flies dressed by Steen Orvad Jensen of Denmark, mounted in the upper board.

rep Edn, XIII 248 pages, 12 full page illus, 8 in colour, vg+ in marked dj.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1914. Large 12mo. In publisher's original full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with light wear, primarily affecting head and foot of spine. With previous owner name, "Elisha F. Lee" to front free end-paper. Internally fine and clean. XIII, 248 pp. + 12 plates (of which 8 are coloured) of flies with descriptive tissue guards. First edition of perhaps the most influential 20th century book on how to dress salmon flies. The legendary fly tyer Megan Boyd considered the present work her ?bible? Written by an amateur, this is "the most notable book to date on the subject since Kelson. Indispensable to the learner" his flies are distinguished by their beauty and finish and his descriptions are lucid." (Robb, Notable Angling Literature, 1947). The present copy has belonged to Elisha Flagg Lee, one of the most prominent fly-fishers and general advocate for preservation of the Atlantic Salmon. Lee was a Trustee of the New England Aquarium, a Director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Atlantic Salmon Federation, and a member of the Miramichi Salmon Association. He also served as President and on the Board of Directors of Hale Reservation in Westwood, MA. His greatest passion in life was fly fishing for Atlantic Salmon. He was an early advocate of salt water fly fishing, and was greatly interested in efforts to restore Atlantic Salmon to the rivers of Maine. He was a longtime member of both The Fly Casters Club of Boston and the Tihonet Club of Wareham, MA.

Ashburton: The Flyfisher's Classic Library, 1997. 8vo. Publisher's black leather with gilt motif to upper board, gilt lettering and raised bands to spine, bevelled edges, all edges gilt, in black cloth solander box; pp. xvi + 248, 12 plates mostly in colour, text illustrations, with fly dressed by Steen Orvad Jensen in recessed oval mount to front pastedown; fine.No. 23 of limited deluxe edition of 55. The scarce first edition was published in 1914. Written by an amateur, this is "the most notable book to date on the subject since Kelson. Indispensable to the learner; his flies are distinguished by their beauty and finish and his descriptions are lucid." (Robb, Notable Angling Literature, 1947).