FOUR SEASONS: BEING THE FISHING DIARIES OF CHRISTOPHER YATES JUNE 1977 - MARCH 1981. Leather-bound edition.

1996 1st edition - de luxe issue. 12mo (112 x 172mm). Pp252,i. b/w illustrations by the author. Fully bound in dark green leather, cover illustration tipped on, silk marker ribbon, cloth slipcase, textured end-papers, tipped-in signature label. Total edition limited to 1489 numbered copies, of which only the first few were bound in leather.

"Everyone, or at least almost every angler, knows that carp fishers are mad, but this diary, that was never intended for publication, reveals levels of madness that most carp fishers never reach." The total edition was limited to 1489 copies of which the first few were bound in leather with the remaining copies bound in cloth. Both the cloth-bound and the leather-bound editions are long out of print and becoming very scarce.