THE FOURTH ANGLING TIMES BOOK. Edited by Peter Tombleson and Jack Thorndike. Illustrated by Ernest Petts.

1965 1st edition. 4to (180 x 245mm). Pp143. Colour frontispiece photograph, b/w photographs, b/w illustrations by Ernest Petts. Green cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

A terrific collection of articles by all the big names of the 1960s. The fourth and final volume in a series of books based on material collected from the Angling Times. Covers game and sea angling but is strongest on coarse fishing. Contributions from Albert Oldfield, Jim Sharp, Bernard Donovan, Hugh Stoker, Cliff McCullagh, Bill Taylor, Ken Seaman, Colin Blake, T.K. Wilson, Ewan Clarkson, C.R. Gamble, Fred J. Taylor, C.N.G. Matthews, F.E. Marriott, Dick Walker, Tom Tomlyn, Jim Wheat, A.F. Magri-MacMahon, D.L. Wray, Ken Stabler, Peter Collins, Billy Lane, Herbert Green, Fred Laughton, Peter Stone, John Holdham, A. Dean Leach, Cyril Precious, Derek Fletcher, M. Melhuish, John Tyrell, Dennis Pye, Gordon Wood, Peter Trowse, David Carl Forbes, Tag Barnes, Peter Mead and Bob Norman. The introduction is by Ken Sutton.