Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. 4to. Pp: 197. First Edition, in slipcase, with second protective cardboard slipcase. Black slipcase with large colour illustrations to front and back covers and gilt lettering. Publisher's black velvet cloth boards with gilt lettering to front and rainbow design to spine. Illustrated throughout in colour. Dual language edition, both English and Japanese. Heavy book, may require an additional postage charge outside of the UK.ISBN: 4062041936 Very good plus in very good slipcase. Contents are clean and sound. 1.5 cm horizontal crack to spine of slipcase and some mild rubbing to head of spine. Seller Inventory # C71964
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Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 37 x 26.5 cm. 198pp. Text in English and Japanese, translated into English by Mary Anne. Brilliant color photographs of 500 flies originally patterned by Ken Sawada and photographed by Iwana Akizukiand additional line drawings. Black felt binding in slipcase. Signed and dated by Ken Sawada on the front paste-down. Seller Inventory # 88849
Seller: Fireside Angler, Smithtown, NY, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Iwana Akizuki (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. [1], 198 pp. Book: In black velvet covers in a slipcase, 37 x 26.5 cm Signed and dated September 1990 by the Author on the Front pastedown. Laid in: Original Japanese ISBN and publication information on a folded tag, 4.5 x 10.55 cm Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Seller Inventory # 210061
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1989). 1989 1st edition. Folio (270 x 370mm). Pp198. Over 500 superb colour photographs of fully dressed salmon flies by Iwana Akizuki. Text in Japanese and English. Full black velvet binding, upper board titled in gilt, coloured spine label. Matching cloth & paper-covered slip-case with colour illustrations of salmon flies. Very fine in slipcase and cardboard outer. (The slipcase, being glossy black, always shows slight signs of use). Signed by the author. The most beautiful of classic salmon fly books. A stunning collection - some patterns devised by Ken Sawada himself, but the majority are taken from Blacker, Fitzgibbon, Francis, Kelson, Hardy, Pryce-Tannatt, Hale and Rogan. Introductions by James L. Hardy and Alan Bramley. ".a fly dresser is an artist, just as much as a sculptor or painter. In this book are shown, by excellent photography some of the classic salmon flies of bygone days in all their beauty - truly a work of art." (Hardy). Twenty pages of text in both English and Japanese, but the tying instructions and descriptions of individual flies are in English. . Seller Inventory # 24747
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