Advanced Fly Fishing

Eugene Burns

Published by Stackpole, 1953

About this Item

Stated Limited Edition, #65, signed by Eugene Burns on the front page. Leather hardcover with gilted text block edges. Subtitle: "Modern Concepts with Dry Fly, Streamer, Nymph, Wet Fly, and the Spinning Bubble." Drawing by Firman Bradway. Photographs by Clyde Childress. Book condtion is Fair: the text and photographs are in very excellent condition, but the cover is heavily worn with the area around the spine joints degraded (although still firmly attached). Pages close to ends of textblock are toned, especially around the edges, with some light foxing. There's are thin dampstains along the edges of the front and back pastedowns. Otherwise, text is quite pristine - pages are bright, clean, and clear of writing, markings, highlighting, etc. Binding tight and in excellent shape. Hinges firm. Leather on cover peeled off along edges, corners and spine, and cracked in a number of spots, revealing mesh surface underneath. On the spine, there are a number of sections of the leather currently peeling off, and are likely to easily break off. The mesh is ripped at the top and bottom of the front spine joint, and the exterior leather is gone along the joint, creating a feeling of looseness of the front cover. However, the cover mesh is still attached to the spine mesh along the middle 80% of the spine, so the cover is quite firmly attached and is unlikely to separate with normal use.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1743443627635

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Advanced Fly Fishing
• Publisher: Stackpole
• Publication Date: 1953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Limited Edition
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)