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The Charles B. Wood III collection of books on Atlantic Salmon fishing (Bibliotheca Salmo Salar).
Lot 267
Phair, Charles Atlantic Salmon fishing (2 volumes in slipcase), New York: Derrydale Press, 1937
5 – 15 November 2022, 12:00 EST
Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsUS$30,000 - US$40,000
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Phair, Charles
Atlantic Salmon fishing (2 volumes in slipcase), EDITION: This is the deluxe edition, 40 copies, of which this is no. 16. SIZE: Text volume: 310 x 255 mm. Fly volume: 310 x 255 x 105 mm thick. PAGINATION: xxii+193 pp. ILLUSTRATIONS: Seven color plates from watercolors by Ogden M. Pleissner, 2 etchings (in halftone) by Robert Nisbet, 54 full-page halftones from photographs, 6 pages of fly-tying diagrams and 2 maps, 1 full-page, 1 large folding. The second "volume" (which is actually a lift-top box with a matching spine) contains fourteen display mounts of bevel-cut thick mat boards containing fourteen salmon flies and materials necessary for their tying. There are two final mounts which contain a variety of turned-up loop-eye salmon hooks and gut leaders. BINDING: Green fine-weave buckram sides, dark green grained morocco spines and corners; spines with five raised bands with gilt lines, names of author and title in panels. In original slipcase. Bound by Jas. Macdonald Co., New York City, New York: Derrydale Press, 1937

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