The Complete Fly Fisherman

New York: The Theodore Gordon Flyfishers, 1989. Hardcover. Near fine. Collector's Edition. Octavo (22.5 cm), pp. lxi, [3], 1-574. Full leather with 22kt gilt titling and decoration, satin moiré endpapers, ribbon bookmark, all edges gilt.Introduction by John McDonald, preface by Arnold Gingrich, black and white embellishments by Robert Ball. Includes frontis, appendices and index.Gilt side and bottom edges are slightly marred, minor amount of underlining and a single notation in McDonald's piece. A fly-fishing hermit who wrote under the pseudonym Badger Hackle, Gordon is credited with popularizing dry-fly fishing in America. His writings were compiled by McDonald after his death into this volume, which was originally published in 1947 (Wikipedia).