DREAM PIKE. Compiled by Stephen Harper. De luxe leather-bound edition.

2010 1st edition. 4to (190 x 242mm). Pp203. Colour photographs throughout. Fully bound in cream leather, upper board and spine titled in gilt and silver-gilt, illustration pasted to upper board, handmade end-papers, silk marker ribbon. Edition limited to 40 signed and numbered copies.

"A stunning collection of previously unpublished stories of very big pike, each in excess of 30 pounds, captured by a wide cross-section of anglers, some famous, some not so well-known, but all big pike captors." Contributions from John Watson (Foreword), Stephen Abbot, Mark Ackerley, Carl Allen, Neilson Baxter, Paul Belsten, Graham Booth, Julian Chidgey, John Currie, Neville Fickling, Pete Foster, Karl Gidney, Stephen Harper, Pat Henry, George Higgins, Roy Lyons, John Nunn, Bill Palmer, Nick Peat, Craig Renwick, Steve Rodwell, Mark Skinner, Graham Slater, John Synnuck, Steve Taylor, Eddie Turner, Phil Wakeford, Ian Weatherall, Steve Wells, Alan Wheater. Dream Pike was limited to just 800 cloth-bound and 40 leather-bound copies. Both issues quickly sold out. This is a copy of the leather-bound issue.