CARP AMID THE STORM. By Tim Paisley.

1992 1st edition. 4to (198 x 250mm). Ppvi,226. B/w photographs, illustrations by Peter Curtis. Plain untitled maroon boards.

A collection of Tim Paisley's carp-fishing articles and stories. Generally regarded as one of Paisley's better books. The foreword is by Fred J. Taylor. Chapters include: Travelling on; Disturbing affinity; Conversion; Snowberry season; First day - first double; Midnight runners; Twitcher hitting; The one that got away; Cuttle Mill revisited; Technical piece; Attitudes campaign; Nostalgia and atmosphere; Twenty four hours; Yatesy; Beep-Crack: Wait there; Blank at Fox Pool; Enter a tall dark stranger; On the tenth day of Christmas; Coincidence; The longest day; Richly undeserved success; Hooked in reed warblers; Mangrove finale; Near blank at the tip; Past preferred?; To an unknown angler; In like Flynn; Isolated in time; Escape to reality; Redmire revisited; Fragments of birch; Come Uppance for Ron and Ron; Hymns of mystery; Going down of the sun; Addendum.