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The books considered essential reading for Abuphiles:

ABU Books of worth are few and far between and it is not difficult or expensive to purchase most,  for under a few hundred dollars in total.

Some are specifically ABU orientated, while other Australian Books, magazines etc below  but are still considered mandatory reading/reference material. Enjoy what I have linked.

Len Borgstrom's New English Book "ABU and Garcia ..What happened?"

Lennart Borgstrom  "Snilledrag, lyckokast"  Only available in Sweden.. Contact  Len's daughter Lena, in Sweden. swingtown@telia.com Price 200 Swedish Kronor + post.  

Simon Shimomura   "The Ambassadeur and I"

Simon Shimomura   "The Ambassadeur and I Final Chapter"

Daniel Skupien       "Vintage Fishing Reels of Sweden"

Kaeru Nakayama,  "The ABU Reference Book"

Marco Malavasi,    "The Reelstown Guide to ABU Spinning Reels of Sweden"

David Stanley and Keith Harwood, "Tight Lines, The Story of ABU"

Paul Lorck Eidem, "Fiskarens kokbok" ....English version "The Fisherman's Cookbook from ABU"

Hal Mount             "Mr Crabtree's Guide to Good Tackle"

Ben Wright - "The Wright Guide for the Reel Man"

George S, (Stu) Lawson - "Lawson's Price Guide to Old Fishing Reels" 

Some very small  in page numbers but still expensive (at auction)  small production run  books (ie 50 copies only)  such as "ABU/Record Beten Fran 40 till 80 Talet"  by  Urban Westblom and Goran Magnusson are very expensive and cost up to $200 each. I believe there is a possibility of a reprint some time and urge your purchase of this wonderful bait/lure resource. I will try to confirm this when I can contact the authors.

Here we see 4 different types of ABU reel;  Ambasadeur, Spinning, 500 series and fly reels being used!