Two-tone blue paper-over-boards, spine titles in silver; 4to; 438pp; illustrated with mapped endsheets, b/w & color photos, maps & drawings; color photographic dust jacket; introduction by John Merwin; 1st printing.
This book "is more than a story of the fish and their rivers.
It is also the story of memorable anglers, their methods, their innovations and their contributions.
" There are profiles of Theodore Gordon, Art Flick, Harry and Elsie Darbee, Sparse Grey Hackle, Lee Wulff, Preston Jennings and others.
This copy in fine condition, signed by Van Put on the title page.