Fishing the Dry Fly by Dermot Wilson - 1970

Adam & Charles Black, 1974. Reprint . Hardback. Vg/Fair in a Price Clipped Dw. dw has chips tears and creases

A. & C. Black, 1970. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Adam and Charles Black, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover: Clean cloth boards. Previous owners name along top edge of paste-down. Signed by author on first free endpaper. Endpapers and edges are slightly foxed. Text is clean. Very nice photo illustrated dust jacket is price clipped. Minor edgewear. Closed tear. Desirable copy in protective mylar Dry fly fishing has always been surrounded by mystique. However this book dispels that with lucid descriptions of the fish, its environment, instincts, food and feeding habits. Modern fishing tackle progress is discussed. Illustrated. Nice tight binding.

Hardback. Acceptable.

A & C Black Publishers Ltd, 1970-07-30. Hardcover. Good.

A & C Black Publishers Ltd, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/No dustjacket. 0x0x0. Signed by Author. Inscribed "Good Luck, Dermot Wilson" on first blank page. This title was orgiganally published in the UK in 1957 under the title "Dry-Fly Beginnings", the author (died 1996) - an well-known British Angler - introduces the reader to the important considerations of dry-fly fishing: the fish, its environment, instincts, food and feeding habits. This book has been long recognized as one of the finest introductions to the delights and problems of dry-fly fishing. the leading authority in the UK on dry fly fishing, particularly in the chalk streams. The poet Ted Hughes wrote of Wilson's book Fishing the Dry Fly: "Wherever I open it my eye alights on a paragraph that is delightful to read, and that leads on irresistibly to the next paragraph that is he set up a mail-order tackle business, the first of its kind, at Nether Wallop, Hampshire, supplying a full range of fly-fishing… Read More

Adam & Charles Black, 1970. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good - in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Small open tears to both edges of the both panels. Previous owners inscription to the pastedown. Text complete, clean and tight.. Hardback in dust wrapper (green boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (0.6 kg); (x) 225pp; Illustrated by way of: Black and White Photographs; First in this edition, first published in 1957 under the title <i>Dry-Fly Beginnings</i>. ISBN: 0713611278 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #157590|| Condition: