THE LITTLE BOOK OF FISHING: AN ANTHOLOGY. Introduction by Nick Lyons. Edited by Will Balliett.

1994 1st edition. Square 8vo (180 x 183mm). Pp126. B/w photographs, introduction by Nick Lyons. Green paper-covered boards with Lyons quotes his old friend Sparse Grey Hackle, who told him, 'The finest fishing often takes place not on water, but in print.' 'And so it does,' Lyons concurs, 'as this brief and balanced little book will show you.'" This readable anthology includes; introduction by Nick Lyons; East Hampton, August 28, 1939, by John N. Cole; Mecca, by Nick Lyons; Tuna Fishing in Spain, by Ernest Hemingway; Trout, by Seamus Heaney; The Long Night, by Le Anne Schreiber; Abe Lincoln Fished Here, by Lin Sutherland; Mr. Theodore Castwell, by G.E.M. Skues; Murder, by Sparse Grey Hackle; The Brakes Got Drunk, by Red Smith; Hairy Gertz And The Forty-SevenCrappies, by Jean Shepherd; an excerpt from, Nothing But Blue Skies, by Thomas McGuane; Fly Fishing Folly, by Ailm Travler; A Meditation On The Midlife Crisis And The Literature, Psychoogy And Mystique Of Fly Fishing, by Howell Raines.