FLY FISHING: Memories of Angling Days.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint thus.[First published by Stanley & Co Ltd.,1991,reprinted 4 times same year,reprinted 1992 three times,and this is 1st reprint of 1993.The book was also first published by Limited Editions in 1991.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated brown+white line illustrated upper wrap by Patrick Benson; with colour portrait photograph of Norman Lumsden [the Yellow Pages ad-man who turned the J.R. Hartley character into a national celebrity with advertiser/sponsor's Yellow Pages logo superimposed to one corner]; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Unblemished,publisher's original,dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate matt dark brown endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint,9- 127pp[ paginated] includes half-title+title pages,b/w line illus frntis - design repeated from upper wrap dw/dj - 9 chapters,b/w line illus chapter head-pieces and 6 full-page b/w line illus all by Patrick Benson,throughout the text and book. J.R. Hartley's best-known catch to date is the public imagination. But here are his elusive fishing recollections told in a series of sometimes vividly comic chronological cameos,ranging over period and location - from Yorkshire schooldays in the early 1930's, through memorable outings on chalk stream,spate river and loch, to a startling conclusion half a lifetime later on a Scottish summer night.Complemented by his protege Patrick Benson's evocative illustrations,and with his angling expertise lightly threaded throughout,J.R.'s story will touch every fly fisherman's experience. But it is a book,too,that will appeal to everyone,even those who have never held a rod,for the engaging portrait that emerges of the ultimate reluctant hero. J.R. Hartley became a celebrity during the televised hunt for his elusive book on fly fishing.When the work was finally run to ground,it emerged as a number one seller.In it the author made it known that he was a doctor's son,he taught at a boy's preparatory school in Dorset,where he had a combative relationship with the bursar,was married with one daughter,and was a lifelong habitue of chalk stream and salmon river,the self-effacing hero of the fishing lodge, the underdog that usually got the last bite.A sound,clean copy of an now out-of-print hardback book.See also,the following sequential,alpha-numeric book ID [i.e. rja26617], for other of author's titles/edns.
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