TIGHT LINES: THE STORY OF ABU. By Keith Harwood and David Stanley.

2007 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 222mm). Pp183. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations, silk marker ribbon. Red boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies.

Few anglers in the Sixties and Seventies were untouched by the splendid "Tight Lines!" catalogues produced by ABU for the British market. This book gives an insight into the famous company and some of the finest writing published in the Tight Lines catalogues over the years. Angling historians Keith Harwood and David Stanley bring to life this famous Swedish tackle maker. The first half of the book is a history of the company and of the Tight Lines catalogues, richly illustrated in full colour. The second half is an anthology of the fine articles which appeared in the catalogues, many of them by well-known angling writers such as Richard Walker and Bernard Venables.