Bates, Jr., Joseph D.

Streamers & Bucktails. The Big Fish Flies.

Bates, Jr., Joseph D. Streamers & Bucktails. The Big Fish Flies. Illustrated with pencil drawings by Bill Elliott, and pen-and-ink drawings by Milton C. Weiler. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First edition.
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. With TLS signed by Bates, as well as an endorsed check to him; also with a photograph, business card, and short note in Bates's hand.
Small quarto. xiv, 400 [including terminal blanks] pages. With inserted color half-tone photographs of tied flies identifying the artists. Publisher's quarter brown cloth over oatmeal paper boards, stamped in gilt on the spine and in black on the front board.

Slight soiling and rubbing, but a wonderful just about fine inscribed copy in a near fine jacket. HFP-499. Item #499

Price: $350.00