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Deluxe Derrydale A Book of Trout Flies Jennings

Jennings, Preston - A Book of Trout Flies: Containing a List of the Most Important American Stream Insects & Their Imitations - 1935, Derrydale Press, New York. Deluxe edition limited to 25 copies of which this is number 10. Signed by the author as well as illustrator Alma W. Frodersrtom. Consists of 190 pages including an afterward by Eugene V. Connett III, with signature. Contains 11 copperplates (7 are hand colored) as well as two photographic plates, one being the frontispiece (all plates have tissue guards). Pages are uncut and unopened, tight copy, never read. Volume I is bound in three quarter green leather with a raised band spine. Volume two opens to reveal 30 tipped in pristine examples of flies tied by the author (12 wet and 18 dry). Jennings also signed the inside of the fly box. The fly collection is housed within a 1/2 green leather box with a raise band spine, matching that of the first volume. Both have the very slightest of rubbing to the spine and corners, inside cover has some residue from ex-libris bookplate and small area of paper tearing from the its removal, the set is missing the slipcase, otherwise fine overall condition of this masterwork of American sporting literature.