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DRY-FLY FISHING IN THEORY PRACTICE Halford LEATHER FLYFISHER'S CLASSICS LIBRARY DRY-FLY FISHING IN THEORY PRACTICE Halford LEATHER FLYFISHER'S CLASSICS LIBRARY Click images to enlarge Description DRY-FLY FISHING IN THEORY AND PRACTICE by Frederic M. Halford was published by the THE FLY-FISHER'S CLASSIC LIBRARY in 1994. This is the CENTENARY EDITION. ********************************************** THE FLY-FISHER'S CLASSIC LIBRARY publishes titles of some of the greatest fly-fishing books of all time, by such famous angling authors as Arthur Ransome, William Blacker, Harry Plucket Greene, Frederic Halford, J. H. Hale and G E M Skues. Published in Great Britain and produced to the highest standards, there books are quarter or fully bound in LEATHER with marbled or colored ENDPAPERS , head and tail BANDS , silk RIBBON-MARKERS and SLIPCASES. These important and rare books on angling are usually based on the original first edition with relavent additions to provide the most comprehensive text, together with the finest ILLUSTRATIONS . Many of the books feature specially commissioned introductions from leading authorities, and previously unpublished manuscript pages, letters and photographs. Most titles are produced as LIMITED EDITIONS. ********************************************* DRY-FLY FISHING IN THEORY AND PRACTICE by Frederic M. Halford is a comprehensive guide to dry-fly fishing with chapters on dry-fly gear, floating flies and sunk flies, how and where and when to cast, hooking, playing and landing and more. ********************************************* Illustrated throughout with black and drawings from the first edition along with a title-page illustration by Patrick Benson. ********************************** Bound in beautiful BROWN quarter-leather with brown cloth sides, spine lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt with the picture of a fishing-fly, the stamp (three fish in a circle) of "The Flyfisher's Classic Library". The front cover is also gilt stamped with the design of "The Flyfisher's Classic Library", yellow endpapers, and a BROWN slipcase. ******************************* THE BOOK AND SLIPCASE ARE IN VERY FINE CONDITION. ********************************* THIS BOOK IS LIMITED TO 450 COPIES ********************************* -6 1/4" by 9 1/2". -224 pages. -silk ribbon marker. -preface by Dermot Wilson. -printed and bound by Butler and Tanner, Ltd, Frome, England ********************************************* This is an important book for the fly-fisherman and fly-tyer, as relevant today as it was over a hundred years ago. This eminently practical book, DRY-FLY FISHING IN THEORY AND PRACTICE is one of the scarcest of Halford's books. ********************************** I am selling selected AMWELL PRESS, BRIAR PATCH PRESS, FLYFISHER'S CLASSICS LIBRARY AND SAFARI PRESS Limited Edition titles, as well as other LEATHER "Hunting & Fishing" titles from other publishers. *************************************** SEE MY OTHER "SKUES" FLYFISHER'S CLASSICS LIBRARY TITLES, EACH SOLD SEPARATLEY. THE BOOK AND SLIPCASE ARE IN VERY FINE CONDITION NOTE: any glare is from my camera, not the book. Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing. 300+ Listing Templates! Auctiva gets you noticed! The complete eBay Selling Solution. Track Page Views With Auctiva's FREE Counter