Author: VINCENT C. MARINARO.
Title: A Modern Dry Fly Code. {With a Holograph Letter Signed by Vince Marinaro Laid-in}.
Description: New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1950. First Edition, First State. Octavo (8 x 5 ½). 269 pp. Text illustrations by Pearce Bates. Laid-in is signed holograph letter penned by Mr. Marinaro and it’s addressed to an outdoor writer. Vince Marinaro is miffed; in the letter, he describes his development of dry flies with characteristics which mimic the natural fly as it floats in to the trout’s window, and he’s not pleased that later angling writers (i.e. Richards & Swisher) claim their dry fly patterns were created out of whole cloth, as it were, and fail to acknowledge Vince Marinaro’s original contributions. Marinaro dressed his fly patterns with the purpose of capturing precise surface images - matching the natural fly on the water's surface as it drifted into the fish's view. This is the first state binding with silver titles on the spine, and it was published with a print run of 500-600 copies, according to the author. The book is bound in light greenish-grey cloth with silver titles on the spine. Decorated end papers. Pictorial dust jacket. The book is in very good condition with just a touch of edge wear. Pictorial dust is good-very good with chips on the edges. The letter is in fine condition with old folds.

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