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Bates, Joseph D., Jr. & Pamela Bates Richards Fishing Atlantic Salmon the flies and the patterns, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1996 image 1
Bates, Joseph D., Jr. & Pamela Bates Richards Fishing Atlantic Salmon the flies and the patterns, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1996 image 2
The Charles B. Wood III collection of books on Atlantic Salmon fishing (Bibliotheca Salmo Salar).
Lot 272

Bates, Joseph D., Jr. & Pamela Bates Richards
Fishing Atlantic Salmon the flies and the patterns, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1996

5 – 15 November 2022, 12:00 EST
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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Bates, Joseph D., Jr. & Pamela Bates Richards

Fishing Atlantic Salmon the flies and the patterns, EDITION: This is the "reserved deluxe edition" of 26 lettered copies (A-Z); my copy is "Z." SIZE: 290 x 230 mm. Thickness of box: 85 mm. PAGINATION: xx+396 pp. ILLUSTRATIONS: More than 160 color photographs of flies by Michael D. Radencich; color reproductions of 26 watercolors by John Swan, numerous halftones and scattered line-drawn diagrams. This edition also contains a matted and framed classic salmon fly, "Colonel Bates, originated and dressed by Jimmy Younger, of Dumfries, Scotland." Finally, two signed and numbered color prints of John Swan watercolors (reproduced by color offset). BINDING: Bound in full dark blue Nigerian goatskin; spine with raised bands, gold lines, name of title and author on spine; a gilt-stamped salmon fly on upper cover and inner gilt dentelles on covers. Bound by Harcourt Bindery. The book, the framed fly and the 2 John Swan prints all enclosed in a walnut box made by Lloyd Bartlett. PRINTER: Printed in Hong Kong, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1996

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