IT'S A LONG OLD ROAD. A TRIBUTE TO STEVE EDWARDS FROM HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS. Compiled by Craig Lyons, edited by Mike Starkey. De luxe leather-bound edition.

2012 1st edition. 8vo (165 x 215mm). Pp192. Colour and b/w photographs, silk marker ribbon. Fully bound in maroon leather, gilt-bordered marbled end-papers, all edges gilt, black portrait motif and gilt titles to upper board, two raised bands, spine titled in gilt. Red cloth-bound slipcase. De luxe leather-bound edition limited to 50 copies. .

"Steve sadly lost his fight with cancer last year and many of his friends and fishing companions have joined together to write this book in his memory". Part of the specimen hunting scene since the early sixties, Steve was out there catching massive fish before most of us were born. Carp were his first love and he was the proud captor of thousands of twenty pounders and numerous thirties, topped by a prestigious forty pound English carp. Steve had a particular fondness for the lake at Sutton at Hone, fishing it for many years, and included here is an article he wrote on the lake for Carpworld. Jim Gibbinson describes how he first met Steve on an eel fishing expeditionto Loch Ness while Steve's son tells how his dad and friends were thrown off Roger Daltrey's famous trout lake for feeding the fish with trout pellets. Contributors include Nick Buss, Bob Baker, Chris Ball, Chris Brown, John Carver, Terry Davy, John Elmer, Peter Garvan, Jim Gibbinson, Jerry Hammond, Chris Haswell, Kenny Hodder, Joe Jarman, Derek Linstead, Craig Lyons, Robin Monday, Bob Morris, Paul Owen, Trevor Quinlan, Pete Springate, Derek Stritton, Wilf Stockford, Tony Tappenden, Andy (Nobby) Wickens and Fred Wilton. This is a copy of the de luxe leather-bound edition that was limited to only 50 copies.