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(Synopsis) Notes From an Old Fly Book is a new book of fly-fishing lore that casts a line across sixty years of fishing in Colorado's high country. Drawing from his personal experiences, Gordon Wickstrom meditates in essays, stories, poems, and even a song on who anglers are, what they do, and why in the world they do it. Narrative, memorial, and critical - sometimes cranky but always lucid - each story searches the deeper, often turbulent waters of the fly fishing phenomenon and uncovers compelling but restrained reasons why it has such a hold on so many today. The book casts itself deep into the reader's soul and searches for answers there as well. Wickstrom, a native to Colorado's Front Range, records what might otherwise be forgotten, with the implication that younger anglers, still out there wading the big rivers, should look closely to their fishing and the time when they may require the consolations of what they read in their own old fly books.
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Notes from an Old Fly Book
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing with full number line 1-10. Inside is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has creasing at edges. See photos. Seller Inventory # ABE-1730650441453
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Notes from an Old Fly Book
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University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2001
ISBN 10: 0870816136
ISBN 13: 9780870816130
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Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. xix, map, 212 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 430211
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Notes from an Old Fly Book
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by author on title page, dated 2012, gift inscription on half title page, minor wear to DJ edges, small area of loss to book and DJ at head of spine, otherwise very clean, tight and bright. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 053699
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Notes from an Old Fly Book
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University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO U.S.A., 2001
ISBN 10: 0870816136
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Seller: Bargain Finders of Colorado, Simla, CO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition First Printing. Gordon Wickstrom is a WWII Navy veteran, a graduate of Stanford with a Ph.D., a college professor, and a serious student of Shakespeare. For the past sixty years, when asked about his occupation, he said he was a fisherman and a teacher, in that order. This is a new book of fly-fishing lore that casts a line across sixty years of fishing in Colorado's high country. Drawing from his personal experiences, Gordon Wickstrom meditates in essays, stories, poems, and even a song on who anglers are, what they do, and why in the world they do it. Narrative, memorial, and critical - sometimes cranky but always lucid - each story searches the deeper, often turbulent waters of the fly fishing phenomenon and uncovers compelling but restrained reasons why it has such a hold on so many today. The book casts itself deep into the reader's soul and searches for answers there as well. Wickstrom, a native to Colorado's Front Range, records what might otherwise be forgotten, with the implication that younger anglers, still out there wading the big rivers, should look closely to their fishing and the time when they may require the consolations of what they read in their own old fly books. Hardcover has black leatherette boards with gold lettering in a near fine DJ. Unclipped jacket shows indents and storage crease in front. Signed on title page by author. Otherwise interior is as new. Looks never read. Copyright 2001. Print-line indicates this copy is from the 1st print-run of 2001. A true 1st edition. ISBN: 0-87081-613-6 LCCN: 2001035599 MSR not found. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 006909