1972 1st edition. J.B. Lippincott. New York. Ppix,150. Colour & b/w photographs by Hermann Kessler. Blue cloth with blind-stamped fly motif. Boards bowed, spotting to edges. Good-plus in used dust-wrapper.
Notes: Fifty useful flies for the salt-water angler. Eight flies are dealt with in detail with laarge step by step photographs, much in the manner of Helen Shaw's book. Mastering all of these qualifies the reader to tie any of the fifty patterns described in the subsequent section. chapters dealing with the eight demonstration patterns are, Joe Brooks and the Platinum Blonde; Lefty Kreh and the Deceiver; Mark Sosin and the Blockbuster; Stu Apte and the Tarpon Fly; Cap Colvin and the KaBoomBoom Popper; the Shrimp Fly; the Frankee-Belle Bondfish Fly; the Honey Blonde Keel Fly.
