First of all If I was you I would start out in that 40 to 45lb range. Start out on the light side and learn good form and consistant anchor points. To often people make the mistake of getting to heavy of a recurve, longbow, and start out on the wrong foot right away. Bad habits are easy to form when starting out to heavy, I'm one of them who did it and it was a pain getting rid of my old habits. Build your muscles up and learn the Traditional ways of shooting and then bump yourself up In weight if you would like to in the future.

As for recurves there's many good ones out there, If I was you I wouldn't spend to much on your 1st recurve not knowing if its what you want to do anyway in the future.