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2006 · 235001 — Cambridge Mass: Privately printed by Charles B. Wood III at the Ascensius Press 2006. First edition large paper issue one of 25 numbered copies printed on handmade Velké Losiny Prague paper specially bound. Frontispiece tipped in. 14 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Light blue wrappers and brick endleaves sewn. As New housed in a custom half-morocco folding box by Gray Parrot with a mounted no. 6 Green Stone Fly tied by river guide Stan Harrison whose fly caught the fish in the story. First edition large paper issue one of 25 numbered copies printed on handmade Velké Losiny Prague paper specially bound. Frontispiece tipped in. 14 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Account of how O'Brien for many years the chairman of the Atlantic Salmon Federation caught and released a 50-pound salmon on the Grand Cascapedia river at the end of July 2004 with reflections on the measurement of salmon and the author's earlier catch of a 47-pound salmon on the same river in 1982. A beautifully designed production for an essay of enduring interest with a hand-tied fly by Grand Cascapedia River guide Stan Harrison. Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 174 Privately printed by Charles B. Wood III [at the Ascensius Press] unknown