SIDE-LINES, SIDE-LIGHTS AND REFLECTIONS: FUGITIVE PAPERS OF A CHALK-STREAM ANGLER. By G.E.M. Skues. (Seaforth and Soforth).

1932 1st edition. Large 8vo (160 x 255mm). Pp473 + 2 pp ads. B/w photograph plates and a very few drawings. Dark olive-brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine and upper board.

"Twelve years have passed since Mr. G.E.M. Skues last gave us the fruits of his experience- twelve years of theories tried and accepted or discarded. And here is the result, written in his irresistible style with that dry sense of humour which destroys false theories like a cleansing flame". (Contemporary advertisement). Articles reprinted from The Journal of the Flyfishers' Club, The Field, Fishing Gazette, Salmon and Trout Magazine, the Bulletin of the Anglers' Club of New York, etc. The true first edition was dated 1932 on the title-page. The book was reissued in 1938 but without a date on the title-page. This is a copy of the first edition.