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Fullerton, CA: The Sultana Press, 1970. Quarter leather over cream buckram boards housed in publisher's slipcase, gilt titles, actual "fly" example encased into front board. (10" x 7"). Limited 1/350 copies SIGNED and numbered by author on half title page. 92 pages, with Bibliography at rear; color illustrations including color frontis of the California Golden Trout by Brayshaw. Full title reads: An Address on Angling Literature Including Some Mysteries and Personal Observations as well as some Comments on Piscatoria California and HInts for Collector's of Angling Books. Edited with an introduction by V.S. HIdy, and Preface by Joseph D. Bates. A clean, tight copy showing minimal wear. Size: Tall Octavo. Signed. Limited First Edition.. Leather. Fine. Illus. by Thomas Brayshaw.

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1929. Full natural morocco, tooled in gold, with marbled endpapers, and top edge gilt on the rough. 631 pages; with text set in Monotype Poliphilus and printed on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Illustrations include six copper engraved portraits by Charles Sigrist, and ten drawings of fish and a lead weight by Thomas Poulton printed from line blocks, stencil-tinted at the Curwen Press. Limited to 1600 copies. The first collection of Walton's writings published under one cover. A near fine copy in the lightly worn original marbled boards slipcase. Size: Octavo. Limited.. Leather. Near Fine.

Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1926. Original marbled boards (hardcover) with printed label, in the scarce glassine jacket, original dark-blue chemise and slipcase. (8" x 4 3/4"). Limited 1 of 176 copies printed by Bruce Rogers for the venerable Rowfant Club. 12 pages, Uncut deckle pages, title-page vignette, headpieces and tailpiece. In a note regarding the design of this book Rogers wrote: "In planning these little decorations for Kipling's amusing fish tale, the color scheme was suggested by my recollection of moon-rises behind the pollard willows along the Cam, in the fens between Cambridge and Ely. One evening a stray red calf ran up and down the bank in the sunset light, bawling for company." (Blumenthal, Bruce Rogers p.96). A fine copy in slipcase and chemise showing light wear, glassine jacket with two closed tears on front panel and some chipping. A collectable and desirable copy of a scarce Kipling work. Size: Octavo. First Edition.. Cloth. Fine. Private Press.

Kalamazoo, Michigan: Rarach Press, 1990. Full pictorial leather design binding by Jan Sobota. (10 1/2" x 11 1/2"). Limited numbered edition of 40 copies, this being number 15. Unpaginated; Suite of 9 etchings each signed, numbered and dated in pencil by Hanka, (plate size 5" x 7.25") with letterpress printed title page, introductory essay ("On the Metaphysics of Fly Fishing for Trout") and colophon. Typography and letterpress work by Amy Bollinger; Printed on Lana Gravure. Hanka's artist's statement states, "Suppressing the trout's naturally brilliant coloration, the oranges, blues and reds which otherwise would eclipse their graphic elegance, I instead explore the splendid variety of form and pattern evident in these fish, through the black and white medium of intaglio." SIGNED by Hanka on Colophon and on each plate; also SIGNED "bound by Jan Sobata, 1995" on colophon. Shows some light rubbing, remains a clean, tight copy of a scarce… Read More

London: Methuen and Co., 1893. Original green cloth (hardcover), beveled boards, top edge gilt, deckle edge. LIMITED one of 56 copies printed on Dutch hand-made paper. xxii, 54 pages, plus 20 page publisher's catalog at rear. This edition contains a memoir of the author by W.E.Collingwood, also additional notes and a chapter of Char by A.R.Severn. Showing just minor wear. Size: Octavo. Cloth. Very Good.