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Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1941 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 132 Language: English Pages: 132.
Published by Crown Publishers, New York, 1971
ISBN 10: 0517503379ISBN 13: 9780517503379
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Previous owner's embossed stamp to ffep. Small mark on ffep. Slight foxing at hinges where it was glued. Dust jacket price-clipped.
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Seller: Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books, IOBA., Citrus Heights, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
New York. Crown Publishers, Inc. 1971. Later Printing. Octavo (7 x 5). 160 pp. including index. Frontispiece with a photo of James Leisenring. Introduction by Ernest Schwiebert. Black and white plates. Photos. Text illustrations, including tying instructions for Pete Hidy's flymphs. The book is bound in black cloth with silver titles. Pictorial dust jacket. The frontispiece has a vertical crease and the jacket shows light soiling and edge wear, otherwise the book is very good in a very good dust jacket.
Published by Crown Publishers, 1973
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Very Good.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Silver stamped blue cloth, 12mo, 160pp, illustrated with drawings and photos, tan pictorial dust jacket; 6th printing. Contains a new introduction by Ernest Schwiebert. An updated version of Leisenring's treatise on wet fly fishing originally published in 1941 with 3 new chapters by Hidy on fishing the "flymph". One of the more important contributions to American fly fishing literature of the last fifty years. This copy in VG to NF condition, crisp and bright. The jacket is price clipped on inner flap o/w in VG condition- quite a nice copy.
Published by Crown Pub., USA, 1971
Seller: Rainy Day Books, Courtenay, BC, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book has light wear, a gift inscription covering the inside cover has been covered with white out. The rest of the interior is clean. Dust jacket has some writing and light soiling.
Published by Dodd, Mead & Co., 1941
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. VG missing dust jacket. Illus. Minor pencil annotations.
Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1943
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition thus, 1943. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 81 pp., with black & white illustrations. Bound in publishers light tan cloth with title in black on spine. Cloth has mild overall soiling; tips are rubbed. 3 purple crayon marks in preliminary pages, otherwise unmarked.
Published by Dodd Mead: NY, 1943
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: 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".
Published by Crown Publishers. New York. 1971., 1988
ISBN 10: 0517503379ISBN 13: 9780517503379
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
(Hardcover, 1971). 1971 1st edition thus. Small 8vo (130 x 193mm). Pp159. B/w photographs and illustrations. Blue cloth, spine titled in silver. Introduction by Ernest Schwiebert. Minor faults but a very good copy in slightly frayed 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. .
Publication Date: 1941
Seller: White Mountains, Rare Books and Maps, Lincoln, NH, U.S.A.
No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Dodd, Mead & Company 1941, light brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine. owner name on front fep upper corner. 81pp, illustrated with photos andf drawings, VG (Inscribed by a former owner with claims to have been given the book by the daughter of 'Thaddeus Norris' , 'Mary Norris', for whom the book is dedicated, on the dedication page itself in pencil) in a good, but quite damaged and sunned on spine/taped, dust wrapper. Book.
Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, 1941
Seller: Peasant Birch Booksellers, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. light and moderate dj edge chipping ( well intact though and encased in acetate protective dj cover).
Published by Crown Publishers. New York. 1971., 1988
ISBN 10: 0517503379ISBN 13: 9780517503379
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
(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. .
Published by Dodd, Mead & Company 1941, 1941
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
first edition, duodecimo, light brown cloth boards with black lettering to spine and blind-stamped device to front board, frontispiece, xvii + 81pp, illus, VG (light wear to extremities and soiling to boards, ink owner's name to fep, light soiling to prelims) in VG d/w (soiled, tanning to interior, chips to front corners, small hole to spine) in plastic wrapper.
Seller: Callahan and Company Booksellers, Peterborough, NH, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1941, first printing. Illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. 5.25" x 7.5". 81 pp. Tan cloth. Foreword by V.S. Hidy, introduction by Reuben Cross. Chapters on materials, tying instructions on tying wet flies and nymphs, and trout fishing with wet fly and nymph. A very nice copy. Very good in very good wrapper.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gray buckram with black spine titles; 12mo; 81pp; illustated with b/w photo portrait of author plus other b/w photos and drawings; photographic dust jacket with white titles on red panels. "Eleven chapters bulge with sound facts on the art of tying the wet fly, while in the twelfth, Leisenring gives a careful picture of his method in presenting his flies efficiently on the stream." This copy is in very good condition with the slightest of wear, internally clean with all plates bright. The jacket is in very good condition with the spine faded as usual for this title. A bit of staining to rear panel and accompanying flap. Original publisher's selling price of $2.00 printed on inner flap. Overall, a quite nice copy of the 1st printing in the uncommon dust jacket.