HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 5th.* Date of Publication: 1939* Publisher: Duckworh.* Binding and cover condition: Dull green cloth with slight spine lean, gilt title to spine and impressed title to face, minor bumps & rubs, spine faded & marked. Some marks to boards. ACC.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, and tight with no annotations or inscriptions. Minimal reading wear, slight foxing to page margins, considerable foxing to all edges. GD* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos, within text including to frontis.* Pages: 307 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Big-game fishing adventures in Central America. The story of Mitchell-Hedges' expedition on his yacht Cara from Jamaica to the Rio Chucunaque in Panama, fishing and collecting zoological and anthropological specimens. Photographs by Lady Richmond Brown. The fishing is largely for big sharks and rays, but includes tarpon, snook, snappers and jacks. This edition has an extra seven page appendix at the rear, being a reprint of a paper "Cervical Vertebrae Of A Gigantic Blue Whale From Panama" by Sir Sidney F. Harmer, from the "Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1923."* An acceptable copy of the 1st. /5th. with considerable ageing and wear. No dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4540
Title: Battles with giant fish
Author: Mitchell-Hedges, Frederick Albert
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - GD/ACC/ND
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition 5th. Imp.
Publisher: Duckworth
Place of Publication: London UK 307
Date Published: 1939-01-01

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