ART OF ANGLING JOURNAL. Volume 1, issue 1. WINTER 2001. PREMIER ISSUE. By Paul Schmookler and Ingrid V. Sils.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 2001). 2001 1st edition. Large perfect-bound magazine format paperback (230 x 300mm). Pp160. Highest quality colour photographs throughout, advertisements. Slight marks to cover else good second-hand paperback. A handsome and wonderfully illustrated journal. Articles on fly-tying and materials, fishing tackle collecting, angling art and literature. Brilliant photography and a superb production of the highest quality. This series was printed using a five-colour printing process, one of the five being real, metallic, gold. The obvious expense of this could have contributed to the early demise of the series, but has left us with wonderful, lustrous photographs. ISSN: 1536-9536. Articles include: The salmon flies of Major John Popkin Traherne, by J. David Zincavage; Arne Mason - the art of leather, by Ingrid V. Sils; Tragedy at Red Camp - the mysterious death of Edmund W. Davis, by John Mundt; The Land of Fire - a promise kept, by Douglas Merchant. Fly Tying Ornithology Part I: Lady Amherst Pheasant; Hybrid Pheasant; Gray Peacock-Pheasant; Malayan Peacock Pheasant; Steelhead flies of Edward Livingston Haas - Part I, by Scott Gingrich; The rise of the crafts, by Gordon Wickstrom; Daryll Whitehead - best rods, by John Hawkins; Reflections on creative salmon fly tying, by Jean Paul Dessaigne; Mr Child's tools - turning the mundane into the exotic, by Ingrid V. Sils; Statehouse streamers, by Mark Favorite; Day's catch on the Petite Cascapedia, by Arthur Taylor. .…