TROUT : AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY (signed)
Prosek, James, 1975-
ISBN 10: 067944453X ISBN 13: 9780679444534
Editore: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1996
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Octavo (oblong), vii, 158 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine is grey with white and grey print. Dust jacket has slight edge wear. Price unclipped: "$27.50". Boards in yellow cloth. Text block has bookplate on front pastedown, cracked front hinge. Illustrated: color plates. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column P. 1393509. FP New Rockville Stock. Codice articolo 1393509
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Having developed a passion for fishing as a boy, James Prosek searched in vain for a book that catalogued the trout he had come to treasure. Then he began painting them himself, inspired by John James Audubon's classic bird portraits. This is the dazzlingly beautiful result, with more than seventy original watercolors by a true prodigy--only twenty years old and already considered "a fair bid to become the Audubon of the fishing world" (The New York Times).
The trout of North America range from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and from the Arctic Circle to the Tropic of Cancer. No other book pictures all of the popular varieties, much less the rare, exotic, and in some cases extinct species, subspecies, and strains included in this comprehensive collection. Char; Apache, Gila, and Mexican trout; rainbow, redband, and golden trout; cutthroat trout; brown trout and Atlantic salmon--each of these, and many more, are captured in vivid watercolors, along with engaging, informative descriptions of their evolution and habitats.
With youthful passion and stunning accuracy, James Prosek celebrates as never before the indelicble beauty and variety of the trout, and makes an eloquent plea for its preservation. An unprecedented reference, Trout is essential for the serious angler--and a glorious introduction for anyone who loves fishing and the outdoors.
Informazioni sull?autore: James Prosek grew up in Easton, Connecticut.
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Titolo: TROUT : AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY (signed)
Casa editrice: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Data di pubblicazione: 1996
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
autografato: Autografato dall'autore
Edizione: Second printing.
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Trout: An Illustrated History-SIGNED COPY
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ISBN 10: 067944453X
ISBN 13: 9780679444534
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Da: Leahi Books, Olalla, WA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED and inscribed "to xx, Happy Fishing James Prosek" on the title page HB First Edition, first printing. ISBN 067944453X Bound in mustard-colored cloth-covered boards with gilt title. From the jacket blurb: "Having developed a passion for fishing as a boy, James Prosek searched in vain for a book that catalogued the trout he had come to treasure. Then he began painting them himself, inspired by John James Audubon s classic bird portraits. This is the dazzlingly beautiful result, with more than seventy original watercolors by a true prodigy-only twenty years old and already considered a fair bid to become the Audubon of the fishing world." (The New York Times) AS NEW/NEAR FINE, minor wear to two dust jacket corners and fore edge, otherwise very clean, bright and unmarked, dust jacket now protected in archival mylar. Codice articolo SPO-FIS-003
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Trout: An Illustrated History (inscribed to Robert Stone, his former teacher)
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Knopf, 1996
ISBN 10: 067944453X
ISBN 13: 9780679444534
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Da: Rural Hours, La Grande, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Tenth printing, association copy, inscribed to National Book Award-winning novelist Robert Stone: "For Robert Stone, Good fishing in Idaho and Andros. All best, James Prosek." With a little sketch of a fly after his signature. Prosek has been described as the Audubon of fish, and he took a writing workshop with Robert Stone as an undergraduate at Yale. Stone wrote about fly-fishing in novels such as The Dog Soldiers and Outerbridge Reach, but apparently not with total accuracy, since in the case of the former he may have confused a gila trout for a steelhead. Yet he was a dedicated fisher. Writer Robert Richardson (Annie Dillard s husband) recalls their time angling together in both the places that Prosek mentions in his inscription: "He loved to go fishing. We went fishing for big Spanish mackerel with his grandson out in the Gulf Stream off Key West; we went fishing for yellowtail another time off Cottrell Key. And on a trip to the Bahamas in February 1997, we went fishing out of Moxey s Bonefishing Lodge on the Middle Bight of Andros with a local boatbuilder and fishing guide named Ralph Moxey. And then there was a river-rafting trip down the Salmon River in Idaho in the early 1990s. The trip was put together by Cort Conley, a river guide, writer, and godfather to anything literary in or about Idaho. The river was high, the rapids frequent and full. Some of us had inflatable kayaks. But seated close together on the center thwart of the big raft in the middle of the river was Robert Stone, with Marilynne Robinson on one side of him and Annie Dillard on the other. The three friends, all wearing life jackets, talked theology as the sun blazed down and the raft bucked and leaped, taking on water, spinning wildly in the currents, rocking from side to side, roaring down rapids, Stone and friends and the river all in full spate cascading merrily between stony banks and silent trees. The frantically busy boatman, Conley, who fully understood that he had modern American literature in his keeping that day, pushed and shoved on long polelike oars, as the three writers rose to the task of settling the hash of the universe, and fishing for answers." What a trip! A nice association for the angling inclined. Fine in a near fine jacket. Please inquire for photos. Codice articolo ABE-1593631933791
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