Rhead, Louis – AMERICAN TROUT STREAM INSECTS – 1916 1st edition – 177p – Frederick A. Stokes, NY – With the lengthy sub-title – A Guide to Angling Flies and Other Aquatic Insects Alluring to Trout, selected and painted for each month of the trout season from nearly one hundred living specimens native to the rivers and lakes of the temperate zone of North America, with notes on and reproductions of artificial imitation flies tied by the author, and a chapter on the mode of tying artificial flies, with assisting charts and illustrations of a complete set of new artificial nature-lures copied exactly from carefully colored life-pictures that bass and other game fishes consume as food. – This is the very hard-to-find first edition, which when published was the first and most comprehensive studies of stream entomology ever published in American. – Book is fine, still crisp and clean with absolutely no foxing – front hinge is starting but does not present a problem – A rare, very collectible book in very good condition. -$140.00