Greased Line Fishing for Salmon: Compiled from the Fishing Papers of the Late A.H.E. Wood of Glassel by "Jock Scott"

Scott, Jock

Published by Seeley Service & Company Limited, London, 1950

About this Item

Sea green cloth with gilt spine titles; 8vo; 221 + 2pp ads; illustrated with color photographic plate of flies at frontispiece plus 8 b/w photo plates and drawings within text; color pictorial dust jacket; 4th edition. Contains an appreciation of A.H.E. Wood by J.W. Hills plus contributions and correspondence from George LaBranche. Successful technique developed by Wood to present sunken flies broadside to the salmon via a "greased" floating line. This copy VG with an upper corner fold to the first few pages, o/w internally quite clean. The uncommon jacket has a small stain to upper edge, is not price-clipped plus both paste-on pictorial labels intact, often missing. This title is often found with mis-matched dust jackets as this is a 4th edition book with a 5th edition jacket.

Seller Inventory # 006195

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Greased Line Fishing for Salmon: Compiled from the Fishing Papers of the Late A.H.E. Wood of Glassel by "Jock Scott"
• Publisher: Seeley Service & Company Limited, London
• Publication Date: 1950
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fly Fishing
  • Salmon
  • Fishing (general)