RED SMITH ON FISHING AROUND THE WORLD. By Red Smith. Edited by Verna Reamer.

1963 1st edition thus. 8vo (145 x 215mm). Ppx,181. Not illustrated. Pale green cloth, spine titled in blue and white.

"Starting out from New York and thereabouts, Red Smith tells of fishing trips in Florida, the Bahamas, Chile, Australia, Finland, Ireland, Newfoundland, New England, Arizona, Alaska and his home state of Wisconsin. ...[Smith] can write with delight and humour on subjects as varied as the pursuit of trout on the Beaverkill, sail fish in Florida, bass on the Wisconsin lakes; of Pennsylvania State College's Department of Fly Fishing or the care that goes into the making of every Payne rod".