ALIVE ON A RAINY DAY: OR FISHING IS A WAY OF LIFE. REVISED SECOND EDITION. By Geoffrey Bucknall.

(2009) 2013 2nd revised edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppviii,237. B/w photographs, b/w illustrations by Keith Linsell. Blue boards, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Edition limited to 300 copies, signed and numbered by the author.

This is Geoffrey Bucknall's autobiography, setting out why and how fishing became his way of life, from his rural upbringing in the Weald during the war, post-war National Service and his subsequent career as a laboratory technician, fishing tackle manufacturer and tackle dealer. Bucknall is, of course, the author of many well-thought-of books and innumerable articles in the angling press. A good read for all who know and admire this author's work. This is the revised second edition with much new material. * "The first three hundred copies of this edition are numbered sequentially and signed by the author on a ...book plate designed ...by Daniela Hartl-Heisan, the Owlstudio, of Vienna."