ARMCHAIR ADVENTURES FOR THE ANGLER. Edited by Charles K. Fox.

1970 1st edition. 8vo (143 x 215mm). Pp248,ads. Not illustrated, bibliography. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt.

A collection of 20 short stories, billed on the dust-wrapper as "The World's Best Fishing Stories". Contents include:- The law ov it by Francis Francis; First of April by William Senior; The man who went a-fishing by C.A. Augur; Crocker's Hole by R.D. Blackmore; Ol' settler of Deep Hole by Irving Bacheller; His other engagement by Henry van Dyke; Fly-fishing in A.D. 2014 by J.C. Mottram; One path to paradise by T. Morris Longstreth; The four-pounder by William Caine; The whirling dervish by Frederick White; The tragedy of the elm-tree pool by Eugene E. Slocum; The St. Croix's second musky by Donald Hough; Fish are such liars by Roland Pertwee; The diver does his stuff by John Taintor Foote; Down around the river by Charles E. Cox, Jr; The willow fly by Eugene Wright; Spare the rod by John Alden Knight; A trout brook conversion by Harold P. Sheldon; Crazy Stiller goes a-fishing by Arthur R. Macdougall, Jr; Mad trout by Charles Elliott.