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The Life and Times of Bill Quinlan by Bob Buteux |
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The Little Egret Press is also proud to
print, in this new book, the
only known essay on Tench fishing that Bill Quinlan wrote, which has never
been published before.
Gathered
within this book are some fond reflections of the late Bill Quinlan,
written by close friends, Bob Buteux, Len Arbery, Rod Hutchinson, Kevin
Clifford and others he fished with
for over forty years
From
the introduction of Bob Buteux
Looking back, when fishing with so many fine anglers during the
nineteen sixties, I didn't realise the significance of it all, being too
engrossed in my fishing to see that the friends alongside me were becoming
the greats of the angling world.
The likes of Jack Hilton, Frank Guttfield, Bill Keal, Len Arbery and
Pete Frost, all members of the famed Herts/Chiltern Specimen Group, were
to write books on the subject in later years, some of them to become
classics. |
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One such angler, too modest to write, was Bill Quinlan. It wasn't that he
hadn't the ability, for few of us had telephones at that time, so to
contact each other it was down to a chance visit or write a letter. The
letters that Bill wrote to me then were the wittiest and most amusing I
have ever received; how I wish I had them now.
But having said that, I have a notebook of his in which he wrote his
observations on the Southill Tench we spent so much time after in the
sixties. They were written for the benefit of the group members who were
also fishing there, as you will see they are included in these pages as he
wrote them... |
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The whole edition is limited to just 600 copies, of which 30 will be
specially bound in full leather, with gilt fore edges, five spine bands,
gold embossing and a slip case.
The cloth edition will be bound in a black coloured book
linen with an attractive dust-wrapper. The whole edition
is signed and numbered
by the illustrator, and the leather bindings will also be signed by Bob Buteux.
The book is illustrated throughout with Tom O'Reilly's line drawings
and has many black and white photographs, some of which have never been
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Full Leather Bound
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Cloth Bound with Dust-wrapper
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