Tunny fishing at home and abroad

London: Rich & Cowan, 1934.

First edition. 137pp. Publisher's original red cloth boards with gilt to spine; red top-stain. Light foxing throughout. A very good copy. In a fair only dust jacket; chipped and torn with significant loss to head of lower panel. Lorenzo Mitchell-Henry pioneered angling for bluefin tuna, or tunny, in Nova Scotia and in the North Sea and holds the UK record for the largest fish ever caught with rod and line. Tunny fishing was a bit of a craze amongst the aristocracy in the 1930s.