Shortland Publications, 1976. Front endpaper clipped top right corner, otherwise book and dust-jacket in very good second-hand condition.

This collection of Noel Holmes' columns is as fresh today as the fish he would catch, clean cook and subsequently write about in his hugely popular column Auckland Star column of the 1950s and '60s, 'Just Looking, Thanks'. Holmes wrote with great dollops of humour and common sense so that, in his own words, 'any tyro who cannot deal with a bucket of scallops or a live crayfish after reading this book just has not been paying attention'.