Great Fishing Tackle Catalogs Of The Golden Age North Platte River Fourth Edition

Fourth Edition

Small tear on back interior edge

The Big Fish edited by Arthur Oglesby and Lucy Money-Coutts

by Darrel Martin

compiled by Joe Dion

Great Fishing Tackle Catalogs Of The Golden Age North Platte River Fourth EditionHere is a marvelously full and nostalgic collection of the most interesting pages from such outstanding old catalogs of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as those of Orvis, Abercrombie & Fitch, Sears Roebuck, Montgomery Ward, William Mills, the House of Hardy. L. L. Bean, and scores of others. Mail order catalogs were (and still are!) the fisherman's opium. Here in the fine free such frenzy of bygone copywriters' prose are old rods and