"Skwala" wrote in message
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I would have to say my favorite Fly Tying "book" is about 4 or 5 years
worth
of the magazine "FlyTyer" starting with issue one, and continuing about to
where it started to suck.

This is one of the two genres of value recognized
by most collectors. You might call it Technique,
viz. information in a particular book that both is
desired and cannot be found anywhere else.

The other genre is quite different. You might
call it "Voice," i.e. the personality of the author
as transmitted by the way he writes. People
like Joe Brooks or Ray Bergman were men you
would like to know or to go fishing with. We
might have much to learn from Vince Marinaro
or Ernie Schwiebert but I am not so sure we
would want to go fishing with them.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)