WEST OF KEY WEST. Edited by John Cole and Hawk Pollard.

1996 1st edition. Landscape 4to (272 x 215mm). Ppxiv,209. Colour paintings by Peter Corbin and David Harrison Wright, colour photographs, end-paper chart of the Marquesas Keys. Purple boards, upper board and spine titled in silver-gilt.

Flyfishing the Flats of south Florida's Lower Keys with the very best writers, illustrated by the very best artist and photographer. A stunning book. "From the Contents north of Big Pine to the Marquesas twenty-five miles west of Key West, hundreds of square miles of shallow-water flats, scores of mangrove hummocks, and dozens of small keys create a unique, dramatic, and fragile environment that [has], by common consent, the ... best salt-water sport-fishing ... on the globe". Contents include: Right time, right place, by Peter Kaminsky; The fascination of what's difficult, by Dan Gerber; Sterling Silver, by Russell Chatham; Tarpon fishing, the first thirty seconds, by Jeffrey Cardenas; Blanton's beach party, by Jimmy Buffett; Youthful realities, by George Reiger; World of the silver kings, by Nick Lyons; My transformational day, by Colin Trillin; Ghosts in the storm, by Robert F. Jones; A world-record dinner, by Thomas McGuane; Best friends, by John Cole; Tarpon time, by Brad Burns; Only in Key West, by Harlan Franklin; Cormorant vs. Bull Shark, by Dave Harris; Captain Billy, by John Leslie; Notes of a backcountry bumbler, by John Greaves; The fishing didn't count, by Brock Apfel; Corbin's Grand Slam, by Peter Corbin; A day in May, by Jim Harrison; Surprise at the Marquesas, by Lefty Kreh; Angle of attack, by Alan Farago; Aboard the Eden, by Peter Matthiessen; Casting for tarpon, by Nelson Bryant; Bridge lines and pals, by Flip Pallot; Key West with Captain Gil Drake, by Nathaniel P. Reed; Woody, by Guy de la Valdene; Lord of the Winds, by Gary Soucie; My Kodak moment, by Corbett A. Davis Jr; Lost at sea, by Michael Polack; First casts, by Rip Cunningham; Coral reefs - beautiful, alive, fragile and endangered, by DeeVon Quirolo; Fear of the Flats, by Whitney Griswold.