A MAN MAY FISH. By T.C. Kingsmill Moore. "Saracen." First edition.

1960 1st edition. 8vo (141 x 221mm). Pp192. B/w photographs. Dark green cloth, spine titled in gilt.

A modern classic of Irish angling, especially loch fishing for sea-trout. Kingsmill Moore introduces his famous series of Bumbles. Chapters include: Entered apprentice; Why do fish take? an excursus into psychology; Some problems of vision and colour; The little fish; Form and fashion in wet flies; The choice of patterns; The Big House; The lake and the lure; The beetle and the bumble; Lough Corrib and Jamesie; The wisdom of Jamesie; White trout ways; The priest's omnibus; Tackle; Flies and tactics; The country of the Cashla; Shanawona and the greased line; Shanawona and the mist; Clogher and the cloudburst; Carrick-Kill-Awalla and Derreen; The lakes of the plain; Envoi.