COARSE FISHING BAITS: THEIR PREPARATION AND USE. By Frank Oates. Series editor Kenneth Mansfield.

1958 1st edition. Small format (94 x 164mm). Pp96. B/w illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in dark blue.

Another title in the excellent and highly collectable 'How to Catch Them' series. Chapters include: Maggots; Worms; Bread pastes; Hemp seed; Wasp grubs; Wheat; Miscellaneous baits; Fish baits; Ground baits; Artificial lures and dead fish baits; Dopes and flavourings; Dyes and colourings; Appendices are: Fish and baits; Baits used on some specimen fish taken in 1956 and 1957.