American Trout Stream Insects; A Guide To Angling Flies And Other Aquatic Insects Alluring To Trout - 1st Edition
by Rhead, Louis
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. [1916]. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. A fine first edition in the original green pictorial cloth, stamped in dark green and gold. Tinted frontispiece and 15 page sized plates showcasing flies and tools to make them. In the scarce jacket, minor chipping, mainly to spine ends and corners. An attractive presentation; Rhead's most famous and celebrated work, at the time of its publication one of the first and most comprehensive studies of stream entomology in America. Rhead's account is generally pertaining to acquatic insects of the Caskills, where Rhead fished for many years ; 8vo; xxii, 177, [1] pages .
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26717
- Title
- American Trout Stream Insects; A Guide To Angling Flies And Other Aquatic Insects Alluring To Trout - 1st Edition
- Author
- Rhead, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [1916]
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print
- Bookseller catalogs
- By Year Of Issue / 1910s;
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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