A Summer on the Test

by John Waller Hills

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This book by one who grew up on the Eden conveys the very essence of chalk-stream fishing.

(Arthur Ransome, Fishing, 1955, p. 18).

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(i) 1st ed., London : Philip Allen & co., 1924 ; limited ed. of 300 signed by the author, 4to, h/bk, xiii, 198 pp., 12 dry point illus by Norman Wilkinson; (ii) 2nd ed., London : Philip Allan & co., rev. and enlarged (seven a... (show all)dditional chapters), 1930 ; large 8vo (155 x 235mm), xiv, 271 pp., 12 full-page b&w plates from dry-points by Norman Wilkinson; (iii) 3rd ed., London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1941 ; 12mo (115 x 179mm, pocket format), 256 pp., illus. with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings; (iv) 4th ed., London : Geoffrey Bles, 1946 ; 8vo (145 x 223mm), 200 pp., new 4 pp. intro. by Sir Joseph Ball, 16 b&w photos.; (v) 5th ed., Barry Shurlock, 1972 ; h/bk, 200 pp., 24 b&w photos; (vi) London : Andre Deutsch, p/bk reprint, 1983.

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Hunting and Fishing, Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction
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799.1Arts & recreationRecreation, sports, and performing artsFishing, hunting, target shootingFishing
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SH688 .G7AgricultureAquaculture. Fisheries. AnglingAquaculture. Fisheries. AnglingAngling

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