A LIFE FOR CARP. By Peter Mohan. Edited and designed by Mike Starkey. Leather-bound edition.

2013 1st edition - de luxe issue. 4to (182 x 260mm). Pp200. Colour and b/w photographs, illustrations, silk marker ribbon. Full brown leather, gilt motif (author holding carp) to upper board, spine titled in gilt, edges speckled. In dust-wrapper as trade edition.

This is Peter Mohan's autobiographical account of his life in angling, mainly in pursuit of carp. "He has his own philosophy for carp fishing which is totally different from most carp specialists ...There are many extracts and cuttings from newspapers and magazines of the past about his fishing and his organising for carp anglers. Peter has written many fictional short fishing stories and two of these, written especially for this book in January 2013, are included. There is also a section on his ideas and opinions on modern carp fishing, some good true stories from his fishing life and a chapter on his other interests and his life outside angling." Contents include:- Part one: Autobiography - Starting to fish; National service in the RAF; The birth of the British Carp Study Group; A momentous year; Doubles galore; The carp organisations; The Carp Anglers Association; The background to Cypry; Some winter tales; Part two: Miscellany; Part three: The storyteller. The foreword is by Roger Emmet.