COVERTS and CASTS: FIELD SPORTS AND ANGLING IN WORDS AND PICTURES. By William J. Schaldach.

(1943) 1946 reprint. Large 4to (215 x 284mm). Ppxiv,137. Colour and b/w illustrations by the author, foreword by David M. Newell, marbled end-papers. Rebound in half red leather and red cloth, spine plainly titled in gilt.

"Countless thousands of us, in the Armed Forces and in private life, must depend almost wholly upon memory for the delights which circumstances deny - days afield with dog and gun, and on stream with rod and reel. But it is memory tempered with hope. For soon the good sun will flood the uplands with a warm, unfading light; and the birthright of a free people will be restored. The excuse for this book, then, is nostalgia. It is my hope that it may, in a small way, help to brighten a few moments of the trying hours which still lie ahead." A number of the pieces in this book originally appeared in Esquire and Field and Stream. "The drawings in black-and-white were made especially for this book. Color plates are from original water colors, and have not been previously reproduced." Chapters include: Bob and Madame White; What makes a fly-caster?; Grousings of a gunner; Fishing at your doorstep; The woodcock are down!; The other side of trout fishing; A touch of frost; Queer angles on angling.