FRESH WATERS. By Edward Weeks. Drawings by Walter Dower.

.# 1968 1st edition. 8vo (165 x 240mm). Ppxii,223. B/w illustrations by Walter Dower. Blue two-tone cloth, spine titled in gilt.

.# Weeks, journalist, essayist and editor of The Atlantic Monthly did not take up flyfishing until he was forty. When he did he had the contacts to fish wherever he travelled around the world. Essays on his visits to rivers in Canada, New England, Britain and Ireland, the Pacific Northwest and the USSR. On a local note, he used to stay with Sir Frederick Bennett in Aberangell in the Dyfi Valley, fishing Sir Freddie's lake at Cwmllegoedwig (which, as an American, he wisely just calls "Cwm")*. This copy is inscribed by the author on the front end-paper "For Walter Dower, My friendly and gifted partner, in gratitude. Affectionately, Edward Weeks, February 21st 1968". Walter Dower is the illustrator of the book - a great association copy.