1949 1st edition. Adam and Charles Black. London. 4to. Pp120. B/w drawings by the author. Maroon boards with blind-stamped trout vignette on front. End-paper browned. Very good in price-clipped dust-wrapper.
Notes: Written during the Second World War as "an exercise in nostalgia, a refuge from a very unpleasant period." A collection of the author's delightful reminiscences; on the mayfly, dry fly at Fairford, tench, perch and chub, the upper Towy, failure at Blagdon, pike, and more.
