Millis, MA: The Complete Sportsman. Volume 1 – Birds (1994), pp. xviii, 286; volume 2 – Birds and Mammals (1997), pp. xxiv, 345. Volume 2 is signed by both authors on free front endpaper. Both folio volumes (35.5 cm) in navy blue cloth with pictorial jackets. Exquisitely illustrated with full-page, full-color paintings, photos and illustrations. Material is sectioned by animal, and includes chapters on Selected Fly Dressings, A History of Sericulture and Metallic Threads and Tinsels; Citations and Bibliography, and Indices. Each volume has a minute of bumping to spine matched at the jackets, volume 1 at one corner.
An inductee into the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum Hall of Fame, Schmookler was featured twice in Sports Illustrated for his fly tying and expertise as an entymologist. The Museum website describes these two volumes as “groundbreaking” and credits Schmookler with having “educated fly tiers, collectors and artists about the beauty and history of fly tying and raised the standard by which future angling and fly-tying books would be judged.” His partner, Ingrid Sils, was well-known as a talented and expert fly-tier, and the two of them took all the photos of flies and materials in these two volumes. Near fine. Hardcover.
Offered by Elk River Books
$750.00
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