GREAT CARP STORIES. By Jon Berry. Medlar Fishing Anthologies series.

2012 1st edition. Small format (120 x 175mm). Pp173. B/w chapter heading vignettes. Black boards, spine titled in gilt.

Bringing together the "best angling stories from known and lesser known authors, Jon Berry's research has turned up some superb stories of carp. An anthology for all carp enthusiasts." Volume five in the Medlar Fishing Anthologies series. Chapters include: The carpe [sic] by Leonard Mascall; A Welsh carp lake by H.T. Sheringham; Carp and their curious habits by Frantz Domhof; Alfred Mackrill's grand carp - Anon; Overbeck's monster by G. Christopher Davies; A carp in the night by Gerry Berth-Jones; The susceptible carp by J.H. Keene; A taste of the dairymaid by G. Brennand; The appeal of the carp by Michael Shephard; Queer fishing by H.T. Sheringham; Carp by 'Otter'; Fishes of the carp kind by 'Piscator'; Carp from a puddle near the sea by David Marlborough; When the carp fed like roach by Peter Tombleson; The fish with a sixth sense by Dick Kefford; Carp in South Africa by J.H. Yates; A carp from Mapperley Shallows by John Norma; Christmas carp by J.K. Ebbleswhite; Christmas carp - again by 'Faddist'; Mr. Richards' record carp by R.D. Richards; Carp fever by Harry Brotherton.