SAMUEL MELNER AND HERMANN KESSLER. - Great Fishing Tackle Catalogs Of The Golden Age. {Inscribed & Signed by Hermann Kessler}.

New York. Crown Publishers, Inc. 1972. First Edition. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2). 344 pp. Inscribed and signed by Herman Kessler on the front end paper. Signed examples of this book are scarce. The book is comprised of a large number of contemporary Illustrations taken from scarce tackle catalogs dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Commentary by Sparse Grey Hackle. The book is of interest to fishing tackle collectors, tackle catalogue aficionados, and angling book accumulators. The book is bound in beige and gray cloth with black titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A handsome book. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Author.

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