BE MY GUEST. By Dick Walker. Edited by Peter Maskell. Foreword by Chris Yates.

2010 1st edition. 8vo (152 x 216mm). Pp197. B/w photographs. Black cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt. Cloth-bound edition limited to 570 copies.

"For nearly four decades Dick Walker was widely acknowledged as the leading angler of his day and the greatest angling writer of all time. He first hit the headlines in 1952 with the sensational capture of Clarissa, the 44lb carp that smashed the British carp record to pieces and remained on the record list for more than 30 years. In 1953 he continued making headlines - this time with a weekly column in the world's best-selling angling newspaper, Angling Times. It was a weekly column he would continue to write for the next thirty years. Be My Guest is a compilation of his most famous series of articles - the Conversation Pieces written in the early 1960s. Join him as his guest on the bankside as he fishes for a variety of species throughout the calendar year and absorb the skills and watercraft that made him such a great angler." This edition was limited to 570 cloth-bound copies, each signed by Peter Maskell, plus a further 30 copies bound in leather. The book contains a preface by Pat Marston Walker, an introduction by Peter Maskell and a foreword by Chris Yates.