Perrault Keith E (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 26 x 18.5 cm. xiii 705pp. Signed by Perrault on the title page. Thousands of brief entries for different types of flies and pattersn for salt and fresh water along with a bibliography and glossary.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardback. No dustjacket. Original 1984 edition. No statement of Later Printing on the Copyright page, assumed first printing. Book is a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. ; 10.25 X 7.25 X 1.25 inches; 705 pages.

Hardcover, maroon leatherette. Condition: Very Good. A very good copy with no dustjacket. sm4to. xiv, 705 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no d.j. as Issued. First Edition. gilt lettered buckram, xiv, 705 pages) illustrations, introduction by Charles F. Waterman., a very good copy Size: 4 to., Book.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1984). 1984 1st edition. 4to (180 x 260mm). Ppxiv,704. B/w illustrations, bibliography. Maroon bonded leather, spine & upper board titled in gilt. Very good copy. Signed by the author. A self-published catalogue of 16,000 fly-dressings. The type-setting is of poor quality, but not difficult to read. It is nicely bound, and has a useful bibliography and appendix of well-known tyers. .

Orlando, Florida. Kepcor. 1984. First Edition. Large Octavo (9 x 6 1/2). 705 pp. including a list of suppliers, tiers, bibliography, glossary. Introduction by Charles F. Waterman. There's one hell of a lot flies listed herein - some 16,000. Flies for every fish that swims in saltwater, freshwater, waters north and south, east and west, lakes and streams, creeks, drainage ditches, ponds, sloughs, and lawn pools; streamers, dries, nymphs, wets, terrestrials, all intended to entice trout, steelhead, salmon, bass, dorado, tarpon, bonefish, cuda, lungfish, big crabs and baby Orcas; there all here, thousands of them. Does a fly fisher need or want even a small percentage of the patterns listed? Likely not. But it's nonetheless interesting to look over the course of several centuries and the subsequent explosion of fly patterns and realize that so many fly fishers assigned near Mensa qualities to creatures with pea-sized brains. In his review of the book in Fly Fisherman Magazine, Paul Schullery was no fan: "if you want a truly enormous list of fly patterns, and if you can settle for an absolute minimum of information about each, or if reading cramped, dot-matrix computer type is among your deeper joys, then this book will serve you well." The book is bound in burgundy cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. A nice book. Former owner's discrete blind stamp, otherwise fine.

Orlando, Florida. Kepcor. 1984. First Edition. Octavo (9 x 6 1/2). 705 pp. including lists of suppliers, tiers, bibliography, glossary. Signed by Keith Perrault on the title page. Introduction by Charles F. Waterman. There's one hell of a lot flies listed herein - some 16,000. Flies for every fish that swims - saltwater, freshwater, waters north and south and east and west and lakes and streams; streamers, dries, nymphs, wets, trout, steelhead and salmon. Does a fly fisher need or want even one twentieth of the patterns listed? No, and no again. But it's nonetheless interesting to look over the course of several centuries and the explosion of fly patterns and realize that so many fly fishers assigned near Mensa qualities to creatures with pea-sized brains. In his review of the book in Fly Fisherman, Paul Schullery was no fan: ".if you want a truly enormous list of fly patterns, and if you can settle for an absolute minimum of information about each, or if reading cramped, dot-matrix computer type is among your deeper joys, then this book will serve you well." The book is bound in burgundy cloth with gilt titles. A nice book. Fine. Signed by Author.