WILLIAM F. BLADES. - Fishing Flies and Fly Tying. American Insects and Their Imitations.

First Edition. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Stackpole and Heck, Inc. 1951. First Edition. Large octavo (9 ½ x 6 1/2). 234 pp. including index. Color frontispiece showing several streamer flies. Color plates of flies. Black and white photos of flies. Step-by-step line drawings showing how to dress the flies along with material lists for the patterns. An early book on dressing exact imitations. The book is bound in green cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Pictorial dust jacket. A very good book with previous owner's bookplate on the front end paper in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear.

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