A fly Fisher's Life

Ritz, Charles C

ISBN 10: 0517503476 / ISBN 13: 9780517503478

Published by Crown Publishers, New York, 1972

About this Item

First thus 1972, revised and largely expanded with 9 chapters. Published by Crown Publishers. Hardcover in full cloth with DJ. Condition very good, square tight and clean book, covers with slightly worn corners and with some spots, no names no underlinings no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ very good with very slight edgewear and one tiny tear at the head of the spine, price not clipped. Small 4to, 285 pages, illustrated with drawings and photographs.

Seller Inventory # 013569

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A fly Fisher's Life
• Publisher: Crown Publishers, New York
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0517503476
• ISBN 13: 9780517503478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Thus
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Well, I had seen a brilliant performance and I thought I had understood. Clearly, Monsieur X was a Hercules, a magician, to catch a trout with a fly! That is Charles Ritz recalling his reaction, as a boy, to seeing a trout landed on fly fishing tackle for the first time. The year was 1912. Now in his sprightly eighties, Charles Ritz himself a Hercules in the angling world. Mr. Ritz has fished the finest rivers in Europe and North America, learning and teaching everything there is to know about fly-fishing, becoming a magician himself. In sixty years of almost single-hearted devotion to this sport (Mr. Ritz also directs the famous Ritz Hotel in Paris) he has developed unique casting and tackle innovations. A FLy Fisher's Life is a kind of modern Complete Angler, undergoing revision and expansion until now it is one of the classics of our time.

Language Notes

Text: English, French (translation)