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Paperback / softback. New.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008-10-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Goshen, Connecticut. The Angler's and Shooter's Press. 1979. Facsimile Edition. Large octavo ((9 ½ x 7). 464 pp. Eight color plates of salmon flies. Illustrated frontispiece showing George Kelson with his distinctive handle-bar mustache and 18 foot Spey rod. Text illustrations showing the friends and methods of Mr. Kelson. This was the first facsimile edition and it remains the best, faithfully reproducing the 1895 first edition binding. The book is bound in scarlet cloth with gilt titles and decorations. A nice book. In fine condition..

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Goshen, Connecticut. The Angler's and Shooter's Press. 1979. Facsimile Edition. Large octavo ((9 ½ x 7). 464 pp. Eight color plates of salmon flies. This book has the separate group of eight colored plates of salmon flies issued simultaneously with the book’s publication in 1979. Illustrated frontispiece showing George Kelson. Text illustrations showing the friends and methods of Mr. Kelson. This was the first facsimile edition and it remains the best, faithfully reproducing the 1895 first edition binding. The book is bound in scarlet cloth with gilt titles and decorations. There’s a some foxing to the front end sheet and page edges, otherwise a very good book and fine colored fly plates. .

Devon, England. The Flyfishers' Classic Library. 1995. The Centenary Deluxe Edition. Book number 5 of 55 copies published. Thick 8vo. (9 x 6). 510 plus 45 pp. of illustrated advertisements. With a size 7/0 gut-eye salmon fly, Kelson's "Golden Eagle", exquisitely dressed by Kim Rasmussen of Denmark, signed by him, mounted within an oval recess inside the front cover. Introduction by John Buckland. Eight color plates of salmon flies. Portrait frontispiece of George Kelson. Black and white plates and text drawings. The book is bound in full Royal Nigerian purple morocco with gilt titles and decorations with marbled end papers, all edges gilt, and is kept in a matching purple cloth drop-back box lined with black silk moiré, with gilt titles and decorations. An exquisite and elegant book. Fine in a near fine slip case with a light bump on the corner of the slipcase..

London: Published by the author, c/o Wyman & Sons, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy only in gilt-blocked cloth over beveled boards. Boards sun stained. Spine bands worn. Internally bright and clean; text remains clear without blemish. Provenance: Irish Guards PJ Reid Irish Guard's copy. Physical description: xiv, 510 pages, viii leaves of plates: ill. (some col.), ports. ; 26 cm. Subjects: Flies, Artificial. Fly tying Equipment and supplies.Salmon fishing.

London: Published by the Author c/o Messrs. Wyman & Sons, Limited, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. First edition of George M. Kelson's The Salmon Fly: How to Dress It and How to Use It.. Quarto, xiv, 510pp, [advertisements xlv pp]. Purple cloth, beveled board edges. Title and illustrations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Professionally restored, spine reglued and hinges reinforced, headcap repaired, cosmetic touch ups to cloth, new endpapers. Slight bow to back cover with fore edge lightly bumped. Occasional mild foxing to text pages, otherwise clean. Complete with frontispiece portrait of the author, numerous in-text illustrations and 8 brightly colored full-page plates with tissue covers. (Heckscher 1150) An attractive example of this important work on salmon flies.

London: Published by The Author c/o Messrs. Wyman & Sons, Limited, 63, Carter Lane E.C., 1895. First edition. With 8 color plates illustrating over 50 flies, numerous text illustrations. 1 vols. 4to. Original purple cloth titled in gilt, t.e.g. Spine slightly toned, minor rubbing to extremities, endsheets toned, inner hinges starting, else a fine copy. Bookplate. First edition. With 8 color plates illustrating over 50 flies, numerous text illustrations. 1 vols. 4to. A Classic Work, in Original Cloth. A standard work, beautifully illustrated. Westwood & Satchell Supplement p. 248; Heckscher 1150; Sherwin sales (1946) lot 300, Hampton p. 57; Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 47