TORRIDGE REFLECTIONS. By Charles Inniss. First printing.

2012 1st edition. 8vo (168 x 246mm). Pp237. Colour and b/w photographs, b/w vignette illustrations, forewords by Lord Clinton and Peter Lapsley. Green boards, gilt fly vignette to upper board, spine plain.

"This wonderfully evocative book has been written by Charles Inniss, whose family owned The Half Moon Inn at Sheepwash in North Devon for 40 years. Chronicling the changing fortunes of the Inn and the beautiful River Torridge, it not only informs and educates, but it is hugely entertaining with humorous tales of guests and locals, each of whom formed part of a way of life in this quintissential West Country village." Chapters include: Early recollections; My first salmon; My first sea trout; The golden years; Fair means and foul; Homeward bound; Problems aplenty; The turn of the tide; The February experiment; The net fishery; 'Fly only'; The Torridge Fishery Association; Fresh pastures; Brimblecombe; 'The Rod Room'; A helping hand; The last cast; My farming friends; the changing river; The weather; Fishing the river; Final thoughts. This copy comes from the first printing of 350 copies (which included 21 de luxe copies and 44 special cloth-bound copies). This first printing sold out almost immediately upon publication. The spine of this first edition is plain, whereas those of subsequent printings are titled in gilt.