THE AMERICAN FLY TYER'S HANDBOOK.

1979 1st edition. 4to (220 x 285mm). Ppviii,120. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations. Red boards, spine titled in gilt.

"This book will not tell you how to fish as well as Sid Neff or Chauncey Lively or Ted Niemeyer fish. Its intent instead is to present some of the flies that thes luminaries have developed that help account for their streamside success - as well as those of twelve other masters of the art - and show how to tie them." Chapters include; Burr's Brite; Ted's Crayfish; the Matuka sculpin; the pre-emerger nymph; the cotton-thread stonefly nymph; the emergent caddis pupa; the robber fly; the two-feather fly; the marabou dragon nymph; the flat-wing fly; the hair-wing matuka; Vinny's Midge; the cardinelle; the painted lady. Contributors include; Walter E. burr, Theodore J. Godfrey, Edward Graham, Hal W. Janssen, Charles Krom, Gary LaFontaine, Chauncey K. Lively, John F. McKim, John Merwin, Sid A. Neff, Jr., Ted Niemeyer, Eric W. Peper, John Shollenberger, Dick Surette, Ralph Wahl.