THE SEA FISHERMAN'S BEDSIDE BOOK. Edited by Bill Nathan. With drawings by Roz Nathan.

1982 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppx,155. B/w illustrations by Roz Nathan. Dark blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

"While coarse fishing and game fishing have been written about for more than three hundred years, it is only since the close of the nineteenth century that salt water fishing has caught the literary imagination." Authors include, John Bickerdyke, Leo Walmsley, Captain Sidney Norton-Bracy, Ernest Hemingway, Roderick Haig-Brown, Hugh Stoker, Neil Gunn, Clive Gammon, Henry Williamson, Tim Dinsdale, F.W. Holiday, Bill Nathan, and many others.