THE HERON OF CASTLE CREEK AND OTHER SKETCHES OF BIRD LIFE. By Alfred Wellesley Rees. With a memoir of the author by J.K. Hudson, and a portrait.

.# (1920) 1929 "Cheaper Edition". Small 8vo (140 x 210mm). xii pp + 218 pp + 2 pp advertisements. b/w photograph frontispiece portrait of the author. Fawn cloth, titled in gilt on spine, titled and illustrated in black on upper board.

.# Not specifically angling, but Rees never misses an opportunity to mention the sport. In the section, "Bird Life In A Western Valley," (the author lived in Llandysul, Ceredigion), the birds covered are the kingfisher, the heron, the dipper and the partridge. The Memoir by J.K. Hudson, Rees's literary executor and compiler of this volume, begins, "Thomas Alfred Wesley Rees, the "Alfred Wellesley Rees" of Ianto The Fisherman and Creatures Of The Night, was born December 7th, 1872, at Pembroke Dock. His father... was an unpaid preacher among the Wesleyans". . . For his pen-name Rees, who later took orders in the Church of England, dropped the name of the great Methodist preacher and replaced it with that of the Duke of Wellington.