Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1997. Collector's Edition. Fine in full, blue-gray leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt tool work and gilt text in the compartments with gilt borders and gilt designs of a salmon on the boards. The end sheets are silk and there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All edges of the text block are gilt. A small quarto measuring 10 3/4" by 8 1/4" containing 280 pages of text including an index. This copy is still contained within the publisher's original shrink wrap. One of the volumes in the Easton Press Library of Fly-Fishing Classics. Illustrated from black and white photographs and line drawings throughout with one section of color plates from photographs. An extremely handsome copy with no names, dates, notations or prior owner's book plates. A title which is no longer printed and sold by The Easton Press.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB33054
Title: The Atlantic Salmon
Author: Wulff, Lee
Book Condition: Used
Edition: Collector's Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Easton Press
Place of Publication: Norwalk, Conn.
Date Published: 1997

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Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Raised Band(s): Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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