ESOX: THE STORY OF A PIKE. By Wolfgang Zeiske.

(1964) 1970 2nd English edition. Large 8vo (170 x 245mm). Pp94. B/w illustrations by Hans Baltzer. Pictorial laminated boards, red cloth spine titled in black.

"Esox ...lives in a German lake. By luck as much as anything else he survives the ...many dangers that beset fish ...and grows into a huge fish some five feet long, immensely powerful, voracious and swift. [He comes] to the notice of the game keeper who determines to catch him. The ensuing struggle between the man and the giant predator is as gripping a story as any angler could wish." A gripping story with great illustrations. Originally published in German as Esox: der Raeuber vom Waldsee, "Esox: Robber/Predator of the Forest Lake", Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1964.