DERRYDALE PRESS. JENNINGS, PRESTON J. A Book of Trout Flies. New York [1935]. 2 vols., 8vo, half green levant morocco gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, text vol.: g.e., others uncut, unopened, second vol. a matching morocco-backed box containing wet and dry flies, joints and extremities of backstrip worn, green buckram slipcase, a bit rubbed . LIMITED EDITION, no. 5 of 25 copies of the "De Luxe" issue with the box of flies, from an edition of 875, signed by the author and illustrator on the half-title, by Herman T. Spieth after the foreword and by Eugene V. Connett after the afterword, title in green and black, photographic halftone frontispiece, 12 lithographed plates, of which 7 hand-colored, by Alma W. Froderstrom, lettered tissue guards printed in green, 12 wet flies and 18 dry flies mounted in the solander box by the author, a typed note advising the use of camphor in the box loosely inserted in vol. 1. Gee, p. 95. A FINE COPY, WITH THE FLIES INTACT.
DERRYDALE PRESS. JENNINGS, PRESTON J. A Book of Trout Flies. New York [1935]. 2 vols., 8vo, half green levant morocco gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, text vol.: g.e., others uncut, unopened, second vol. a matching morocco-backed box containing wet and dry flies, joints and extremities of backstrip worn, green buckram slipcase, a bit rubbed . LIMITED EDITION, no. 5 of 25 copies of the "De Luxe" issue with the box of flies, from an edition of 875, signed by the author and illustrator on the half-title, by Herman T. Spieth after the foreword and by Eugene V. Connett after the afterword, title in green and black, photographic halftone frontispiece, 12 lithographed plates, of which 7 hand-colored, by Alma W. Froderstrom, lettered tissue guards printed in green, 12 wet flies and 18 dry flies mounted in the solander box by the author, a typed note advising the use of camphor in the box loosely inserted in vol. 1. Gee, p. 95. A FINE COPY, WITH THE FLIES INTACT.
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