WILLOW PITCH: A CELEBRATION OF TEN YEARS OF THE LITTLE EGRET PRESS 2001 - 2011. Compiled by Tom O'Reilly. Cloth-bound edition.

2010 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 219mm). Pp155. Colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Red cloth, blind-stamped publisher's motif to upper board, spine untitled.

Published to mark ten years of the Little Egret Press, "Willow Pitch is a collection of articles, stories, chapters, poems, photography and art work from some of the greatest names in fishing, both traditional and contemporary." Contents include:- Introduction by Tom O'Reilly; Jungle warfare by Dr Terry Baxter; The intestine rules the world by Fred Buller; Redmire Pool - carp water supreme by Jack Hilton; A view of Beesands by Peter Mohan; My tail begins by Tom O'Reilly; There are monster barbel in the slack waters by Richard Walker; Angling books by Emmett McCourt; Bass on the fly by Graham Broach; A grayling angler's progress by David Tipping; Folk tales and fishing friends by Bob Price; You can't win 'em all - a true tale of a disappointed fisherman by John Nixon; Shoaling and the Wye - Poems by Marc Harris; "The cheap editions, Sir? GBP 425, please" by Keith Elliott; Wild west greybacks or "...It's the getting 'em out" by Richard Worthy; The Kennet - it's a river of two counties by Martin James; Royaly beginnings by Eddy Chambers; A passion for vintage angling by Gil Graham; Oh yeah? Prove it! by Bob Roberts; A perfect day on the Cherrybrook by Robin Armstrong. The book was published in December 2010 in a limited edition of only 100 cloth-bound and 15 leather-bound copies. It completely sold out before Christmas and has since become very hard to find. This is a copy of the cloth-bound edition.