A PATTERN OF WINGS AND OTHER WILDFOWLING TALES. Edited by Jonathan Young. Drawings by John Paley.

1989 1st edition. 4to (195 x 253mm). Pp149. Colour plates by Geoffrey Campbell-Black, Julian Novorol, Jonathan Yule and John Paley, b/w illustrations. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

Contributions by "BB", Arthur Cadman, Alan Savory, Michael Shephard, John Humphreys, John Richards, Bill Powell, Dugald Macintyre, Hugh Falkus, Alan Jarrett, Colin Willock, David Campbell, Graham Downing, David Ashenden and Peter Whitaker. Chapters include: The snow flight; Moon flight; Goose music; Winter whitefront; White-out; Wigeon under the moon; Ice morning; The shore shooter; Tideline; The wigeon; The big guns; Evening flight; Much fouling on the marsh; Wildfowling in a storm; Flight of a lifetime; Under a waning moon; A right-and-left; Fowling on the Ronds; One morning flight; Fowling days; Duck shooting at sea; A flight to remember; Duck in the sunset; Beyond the marsh-heads; Mistake by moonlight; Sometimes perfect; Joe's goose; Ten-bore wigeon; A pattern of wings; Ice-strewn waters; Chance of a lifetime; The North Sea surge; My best flight; Pinkfeet and blue toes; A quartet of pinks.