ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2007). 2007 1st edition. 1st issue with limitation statement. 8vo (158 x 240mm). Pp320. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Black boards, spine titled in silver-gilt. First printing limited to 699 copies. Very fine unread copy in dust-wrapper. Signed by the author, Barrie Rickards. Richard Walker was one of the most influential anglers in the history of the sport. His biography is long overdue and it has taken the research and writing skills of Barrie Rickards to bring it to fruition. The book gives a remarkable overview of Dick's angling achievements and an in-depth analysis of the person and angler that he was. It also includes a substantial personal perspective from Dick's widow Pat, giving an insight into him as a family man, and tributes from some of today's best-known anglers. Whether or not there is ever a successor to Dick in the angling world, this book records for posterity the extraordinary contribution made by this one man in the twentieth century. .

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Title: RICHARD WALKER: BIOGRAPHY OF AN ANGLING LEGEND. By Barrie Rickards. With a personal perspective by Patricia Marston Walker. First edition.
Publisher: The Medlar Press. Ellesmere, Shropshire. 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1899600582
ISBN 13: 9781899600588
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Richard Walker was one of the most influential anglers in the history of the sport. His biography, long overdue at the time of publication in 2007, took the research and writing skills of Barrie Rickards to bring it to fruition. The book gives a remarkable overview of Dick's angling achievements and an in-depth analysis of the person and angler that he was. It also includes a substantial personal perspective from Dick's widow Pat, giving an insight into him as a family man, and tributes from some of today's best-known anglers. Whether or not there is ever a successor to Dick in the angling world, this book records for posterity the extraordinary contribution made by this one man in the twentieth century. His is a hard act to follow . . . Winner of two Book of the Year Angling Times and Angler's Mail. 'The definitive book . . . on the greatest fisherman that ever lived.' - Chris Tarrant 'This biography is quite honestly one of the best fishing reads of the past 100 years . . .'; - FishingMagic.com Fully illustrated throughout with monochrome photographs and line drawings.

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