THE COMPLETE ANGLER; A Connecticut Yankee Follows in the Footsteps of Walton
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. James Prosek. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Inscribed by Prosek--the Author & Illustrator--on the title page adding a tiny DRY FLY; square octavo (8 1/4" H x 8 3/8" W); dark green 1/8th cloth with gold lettering on spine over yellow boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a fly fisherman by a stream painted by Doreen Louie; profusely illustrated throughout by James Prosek with a map frontispiece and ~ 13 full-color watercolors of fish and related subjects--mainly as chapter heads; pictorial endpapers repeat watery detail from dust jacket art, xi, [xii] + 324 pages. Very Fine / Near Fine. Item #6333
ISBN: 9780060191894
SUPERIOR CONDITION: SIGNED / INSCRIBED adding a tiny trout fly. Author's third book on fishing. The binding is tight; corners sharp. Text and images are immaculate. The illustrated dust jacket has traces of light rubbing.
James Prosek (born 1975) is an American artist, writer, conservationist and naturalist. Prosek published his first book in 1996 while studying at Yale, Trout: An Illustrated History included watercolors of seventy species, subspecies, and strains of trout in North America. His second trout book, Trout of the World, published in 2003,[5] is a collection of one hundred watercolors of native trout from Europe, Asia and North Africa.
Price: $70.00