SALT WATER FISHING. By Van Campen Heilner.

1937 1st edition. 8vo (165 x 230mm). Pp452. Illustrated with 12 colour plates by W. Goadby Lawrence, a large section of b/w photographs, a b/w painting by Lynn Bogue Hunt, b/w drawings and pictorial end-papers. Blue cloth with gilt titles and vignettes on spine and upper board.

This was (perhaps still is) the definitive American book on saltwater gamefishing. Chapters on weakfish, fluke, bluefish, striped bass, channel bass, Pacific stripers, sailfish, broadbill and marlin, tuna, tarpon, and tyee salmon, with further sections on boats and cruising, saltwater game fishing around the world, an appendix on sea serpents, and a two-page bibliography.