Brand new in original shrink-wrap. Minor signs of sitting on a shelf for a long time with some dust on the shrink-wrap. Top left of spine is a bit exposed through the shrink wrap showing some corner wear. Backside of book, lower left has a small crumb-like imperfection. Great addition to your home library or a gift for the outdoorsman in your life.

Atlantic Salmon Fishing by Charles Phair Published by Derrydale Press

(Hardcover, 1993). (1937) 1993 new edition.193 pages. Colour plates by Ogden Pleissner, b/w plates, illustrations, maps, all edges gilt. Circular vignette painting to gilt-decorated, black bonded-leather binding. Edition limited to 2500 copies. "Originally published by The Derrydale Press in 1937, Charles Phair's classic work is still considered the best book on Atlantic salmon fishing ever published. Heir to a fortune, Phair devoted his adult life to salmon fishing throughout the world." Chapters include: Salmon water - how to find it and obtain rights to it; Selection of guides; Tackle and rods; Flies and their uses; Casting; fishing the wet fly; Fishing the dry fly; Greased line fishing; Weather; A month's salmon fishing trip; Life history; Improving, protecting and stocking salmon rivers together with etiquette and customs - this chapter covers the history of the Restigouche as an angling water, incidentally to the main topic; Salmon fly dressings; The Atlantic salmon rivers of [North] America - Quebec, the island of Anticosti in that province (3,000 square miles, pop. 281), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador, Maine. 

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