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(11VOL) FLY FISHING, ANGLING, TROUT, & OTHER FISHING BOOKS

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Fly Fishing for Trout Book: A 240-page hardcover guidebook on the tips and tricks to go fly fishing for trout with black and white illustrations. Artist: Richard Salmon Issued: 1952 Dimensions: 5.5"L x 1"W x 8.5"H Country of Ori

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Twelve Fishing Books: Twelve Fishing Bookstallest, quarto, 11-1/4 in., as follows: Charles M. Wetzel, Practical Fly Fishing, owner signed (1945); Fred Everett, Fun With Trout, author signed (1952); Verne E. Davison, Homema

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Arnold Gingrich (3) Fly Fishing Books: Three books of fly fishing by Arnold Gingrich. Includes: The Well-Tempered Angler 1965 first edition with dust jacket unclipped; The Joys of Trout 1973 with dust jacket clipped; and The Fishing in Pri

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Three Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Books: The Salmon and the Dry Fly by George LaBranche, 1924, limited to 775 numbered copies, of which this is number 122, some rubbing to boards, else Very Good plus; How to Dress Salmon Flies: A Handbook fo

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Five Wm. Mills & Son Fishing Tackle Catalogs: 1930 "Spring Tackle Booklet", 80 pages, fly fishing for bass, trout and salmon, edge wear, soiling and chipping, VG; 1933, 144 pages, soiling to covers, 1" tape repair to spine, interior VG+; 1936, 85

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(11VOL) FLY FISHING, ANGLING, TROUT, & OTHER FISHING BOOKS

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Including: American Angler's Guide, 4th edition, D. Appleton & Co., New York; Streamcraft: an Angling Manual by Dr. George Parker Holden, signed frontice page and with dust jacket; Trout (2 vol) by Ernest Schwiebert, in a slip case; Angling for Atlantic Salmon by Shirley E. Woods, 1976; Telling on the Trout by Edward Ringwood Hewitt, Charles Scribners & Sons, 1926; Trout Lore by O. W. Smith, Frederick A. Stokes & Co., 1917; I Go A-Fishing by W. C. Prime, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1874; Wet-Fly Fishing by E. M. Todd, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London, 1903; The Modern Angler by John Alden Knight, Charles Scribners & Sons, 1936; and An Angler's Guide, 1909

Provenance: Items from a Westchester, NY estate

Inventory Code: 1K-681

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(11VOL) FLY FISHING, ANGLING, TROUT, & OTHER FISHING BOOKS

Name: (11VOL) FLY FISHING, ANGLING, TROUT, & OTHER FISHING BOOKS
SKU: 162070335
Price: 130 USD
Availability: InStock

Estimate $200 - $400

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