Fly-fishing Classics from Books & Bidders

Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1926. Original marbled boards (hardcover) with printed label, in the scarce glassine jacket, original dark-blue chemise and slipcase. (8" x 4 3/4"). Limited, number 120 of 176 copies printed by Bruce Rogers for The Rowfant Club. 12 pages, Uncut deckle pages, title-page vignette, headpieces and tailpiece. Provenance: Bookplate of J.R. Owens. A fine copy in… Read more about this item

Kalamazoo, Michigan: Rarach Press, 1990. Full pictorial leather design binding by Jan Sobota. (10 1/2" x 11 1/2"). Limited numbered edition of 40 copies, this being number 15. Unpaginated; Suite of 9 etchings each signed, numbered and dated in pencil by Hanka, (plate size 5" x 7.25") with letterpress printed title page, introductory essay ("On the Metaphysics of Fly Fishing… Read more about this item

Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1926. Original marbled boards (hardcover) with printed label, in the scarce glassine jacket, original dark-blue chemise and slipcase. (8" x 4 3/4"). Limited 1 of 176 copies printed by Bruce Rogers for the venerable Rowfant Club. 12 pages, Uncut deckle pages, title-page vignette, headpieces and tailpiece. In a note regarding the design of this book Rogers… Read more about this item

Fullerton, CA: The Sultana Press, 1970. Quarter leather over cream buckram boards housed in publisher's slipcase, gilt titles, actual "fly" example encased into front board. (10" x 7"). Limited 1/350 copies SIGNED and numbered by author on half title page. 92 pages, with Bibliography at rear; color illustrations including color frontis of the California Golden Trout by Brayshaw. Full title… Read more about this item

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1929. Full natural morocco, tooled in gold, with marbled endpapers, and top edge gilt on the rough. 631 pages; with text set in Monotype Poliphilus and printed on Pannekoek mould-made paper. Illustrations include six copper engraved portraits by Charles Sigrist, and ten drawings of fish and a lead weight by Thomas Poulton printed from line blocks, stencil-tinted… Read more about this item

London: Methuen and Co., 1893. Original green cloth (hardcover), beveled boards, top edge gilt, deckle edge. LIMITED one of 56 copies printed on Dutch hand-made paper. xxii, 54 pages, plus 20 page publisher's catalog at rear. This edition contains a memoir of the author by W.E.Collingwood, also additional notes and a chapter of Char by A.R.Severn. Showing just minor wear.… Read more about this item