McClane, A.J. – THE PRACTICAL FLY FISHERMAN – 1953 1st edition – 257p – Prentice Hall, NY – Here is a first edition of one of McClanes early works. On the cover it states: The authoritative guide to fly fishing. Complete with practical tips & pointers from the author’s own broad experience. - Illusts.by Walt Dower include 5 full page color plates of more than 100 flies. Of much importance to the fly tying historian, Dame Juliana Berner’s flies are reproduced by the superb tyer and historian Helen Shaw and are pictured in full color in this book for the first time. – Book is fine in chipped but more than decent very rare dust jacket. - $85.00

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