Hardcover
1987 · Boston
by Bates, Joseph D.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1987. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. Deluxe edition limited to 85 copies, this the first numbered I in the series I-LXXXV, bound in quarter leather by Claudia Cohen. Signed by the author, with an additional, personal inscription from him to "my good friend.with best wishes for many more years of good fishing" on the half title. Includes an additional portfolio of color plates also signed by the author, and an actual mounted and matted salmon fly, signed on the mat by the dresser, in this copy by Ted Kantner. All housed in a cloth-coverd, clamshell box. As new.
(Inventory #: 010841)