TROUT MADNESS: BEING A DISSERTATION ON THE SYMPTOMS AND PATHOLOGY OF THIS INCURABLE DISEASE BY ONE OF ITS VICTIMS. By Robert Traver.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1960). (1960) "Second and Third Printings, October 1960." 8vo (158 x 241mm). Ppxii,178. Not illustrated. Gilt fly motif to teal paper-covered boards, speckled green buckram spine titled in gilt to orange printed label. Slightly bumped and used, slight staining to boards, slight tanning to edges. Good copy in frayed and used dust-wrapper. Robert Traver was the pen-name of John D. Voelker. "Here for the delight of his readers are twenty-one stories gleaned from a lifetime of glorious fishing - as true as can be expected of a fisherman. They cover the whole range of the trout fishing season, from The First Day ('Entire expedition got half shot and retired in vast disorder') to The Last Day ('Only eight more months to the magic first day'). There are hilarious stories that make one laugh out loud and stories that have an undercurrent of deep emotion. But each one carries that special kind of oblique humor and canniness that are Robert Traver's special mark." Contents include:- The first day; The fish car; Big secret trout; Green pastures; Sinning against spinning; Lost Atlantis; Back-yard trout fishing; Little Panama; Paulson, Paulson, everywhere; The haunted pond; Crystal-ball fishing; Trout heaven; The intruder; These tired old eyes. ; Grampaw returns; Spots before the eyes; The old and the proud; Straight up at Dinty's; The old fox; The voyage; The last day. .…