Lackey Bertram (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 110, [23] p. 20 cm. Mainly b&w plates with 6 colour plates of flies on hooks. Brown hardcover with faded print. Some stains to exterior and a bit of wear to extremities. Rear hinge has tear in centre. Front pastedown has large chip. Paper browned. Some stains, small tears, chips to pages. A few signatures jutting out. Pencil notes on a front page. Appendix of California streams and lakes Fly dictionary of 600 trout fly patterns.

Privately printed, Los Angeles, 1929. Illustrated with 6 color plates reproduced from a William Mills catalog, and b&w photographs. 5" x 7.5". 132 pp. Brown flexible cloth, with the gilt titles flaked off, pictorial endpapers, small owner stamp, at top of the title page Tackle and fly fishing techniques for western waters, and with a list of 600 fly patterns. Very good.

12mo, 19cm, 132p., frontis, 6 colour plates, 15 photographic plates, illustrated endpapers, original brown limp fabrikoid, titles stamped in dark brown are still readable, very good to fine copy Wetzel p172. Sheets p125. California fishing stories by the sometime President of the Los Angeles Fly and Bait Casting Club. With colour plates of flies from the catalogue of William Mills and Sons, New York. Includes a comprehensive list of 600 trout fly patterns with identification by colour and the material to be used.

[INSCRIBED] Bertram D. Lackey. Outwitting Trout with a Fly. Letters of a Western Angler. [Los Angeles: Bertram D. Lackey, 1929.] First edition. Inscribed by the author to "Ernest" dated "May 9th-29" on the first blank, ownership signature of "Ernest W. Knight" on the second rear blank. Octavo. 132 pages, includes one page competition form and one plate of winners' catches from previous "The Author's Trophy" awards at the back. Frontispiece photo, six color plates, twelve black and white plates, and eight full-page figures. Bound in publisher's limp brown textured covers, stamped lettering to front cover and spine, illustrated endpapers. . Binding rubbed, corners bumped, lettering to front cover and spine faded to blind; occasional smudges to pages and plate margins, textblock solid, but slightly over-opened at page 65. Overall a fascinating collection of letters from the self-styled author "Piscator". HFP-695.