ISBN: 9780713618334 - Fly-tying Problems and Their Answers (5 results)

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with even toning. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG condition book without dust jacket. Boards are clean with little wear. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings, 124pp, colour frontis, B&W illustrations.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1977). (1959) 1977 2nd edition reprint. 8vo (142 x 211mm). Pp124. Colour plate, b/w photographs, illustrations by Donald Downs, pictorial end-papers. Pictorial laminated boards. Name to end-paper, some browning but good-plus. No dust-wrapper - as issued. "This little book is the result of a series of articles which appeared in the "Fishing Gazette" between October 1956 and February 1957." Covering all of the basic techniques of fly-tying with the clearest of explanatory illustrations, this is an excellent manual for the novice fly-tyer. Contents include: Wings and winging; Winding hackles and the whip finish; Double hackles and false hackles; Stiffening dry-fly hackles and hackling dapping flies; Making flies with 'parachute' hackles; Stripping peacock herls for quill bodies; Rare hackles - supply, demand and substitutes; Making 'shaving-brush' flies; Making herl bodies and butts; Preparing and tying in golden pheasant crests for topping and tails; Making 'dubbing' bodies; Mixing dubbing (furs) for bodies and storing for easy access; Making tinsel bodies; Making tandem hook mounts for lures, etc.; Making hair bodies and head of 'muddler minnow'; Making detached bodies; Hooks - terminology; Tying silks - colours to use; Fly-tying terminology. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. hardback, pictorial boards, dust jacket not called for. residue to the boards in two places where a price sticker has been lifted, the binding remains tight and the text is clean and unmarked. 124pp.

Hard Pictorial Boards. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket as Published. Reprint. First published in 1970. A lovely bright copy with no inscriptions.