Mitchell Hedges Mike Hedges (4 results)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1923). (1923) 1984 facsimile reprint. 8vo (155 x 233mm). Pp183. B/w photographs by Lady Richmond Brown. Pictorial boards. Slight use but very good. This German edition of Battles With Giant Fish appeared first in 1923. This reprint was issued in 1984. Battles with Giant Fish was Mitchell-Hedges' classic of adventurous big-game fishing in Central America. Text in German, in the original black-letter script. .

4to.; 310 pp. Con 8 ilustraciones fotográficas en láminas aparte. Cubiertas originales.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1928). (1923) 1928 US reprint. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp307. B/w photographs by Lady Richmond Brown. Green cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Cloth rubbed, abraded and darkened. Some browning and foxing, heavy in places. Good-plus. 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. The fishing is largely for big sharks and rays, but includes tarpon, snook, snappers and jacks. He was accompanied by Lady M. Richmond Brown who took the photographs, and also wrote about this in "Unknown Tribes, Uncharted Seas." Mitchell-Hedges is best known outside angling circles as the possible discoverer of the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull. He was President of the Shark Angling Club of Great Britain. .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1924). (1923) 1924 reprint. 8vo (150 x 230mm). Pp300. B/w photographs by Lady Richmond Brown. Blue cloth, blind-stamped titles to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Slight marks to cloth, browning to edges and end-papers else good-plus. 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. The fishing is largely for big sharks and rays, but includes tarpon, snook, snappers and jacks. He was accompanied by Lady M. Richmond Brown who took the photographs, and also wrote about this in "Unknown Tribes, Uncharted Seas." Mitchell-Hedges is best known outside angling circles as the possible discoverer of the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull. He was President of the Shark Angling Club of Great Britain. .