Author: MIKE VALLA.
Title: The Founding Flies. 43 American Masters, Their Patterns and Influences.
Description: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Stackpole Books. 2013. First Edition. Quarto (11 x 9). 312 pp. including bibliography, index. High quality color photos showing a large number of flies, river scenes and fisher folks, and fly dressers. The author chronicles the history of modern American fly dressing through comprehensive and well-written profiles of 43 master fly dressers. From Mary Orvis Marbury to Theodore Gordon to John Atherton to Ray Bergman to Lee Wulff to Keith Fulsher to Vincent Marinaro to Andre Puyans, and many other accomplished masters, this book is a fine history of fly dressing in the U. S. and the sport of fly fishing. Recommended. The book is bound in blue cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial dust jacket. A handsome book. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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