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1910ref. 7005London: Seeley & Co 1910. First. Hardcover. VG. 348 pp ill folding map in rear. One other text map last page. Journey through the unexplored regions of Abyssinia now Ethiopia by Lake Rudolph to the Kingdom of Menelik. Classic travel exploration and hunting title by the noted big game hunter/author. VG condition in contemporary half-leather binding All edges gilt. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down. Contents very clean. Seeley & Co hardcover
1923ref. 7003London: Constable 1923. First. Hardcover. Very Good. 253 pp ill folding map. Stigand was a hunter tracker and explorer of extraordinary ability. He was also Governor of the Mongalla Province in which the Lado Enclave was located. One of the better books on this area. Very scarce in first edition. Vg copy in contemporary half-leather binding. All edge gilt. Content very clean. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down. Constable hardcover
1906ref. 7006London: Harper and Brothers 1906. First. Hardcover. VG. 246 pp. ill. Tiger hunting in India then hunting other game in the hill and jungle country of the Asian subcontinent. Then to Africa for lions LIONS and more lions in Somaliland then known to offer some of the best lion hunting in Africa as well as other game roan rhino in Eastern Africa. Scarce title. VG in original blind stamped cloth. Very minor foxing first few pages otherwise contents very clean. Cover dull looking see website image. Harper and Brothers hardcover
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1984ref. 7068Clinton NJ: Amwell Press 1984. First - Limited to 1000 Copies. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. A treasury of 20 years of writing by the noted magazine contributor. 396 pp ill. John Jobson made Sports Afield a popular hunting magazine. This is the third volume in the Amwell Press big game hunting heritage series. Incl. N America & Africa hitting them at long and short range and lots of good stuff. A Vg copy minor wear to tips of cover in fine slipcase. Amwell Press hardcover
1990ref. 7062Agoura CA: Trophy Room Books & Rowland Ward Ltd 1990. Reprint Limited to 750 Copies. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 195 pp. ill. The great hunter's final book drawing on the best and most memorable experiences in his hunting and adventurous career in Africa. Fine in like dj save former owner's name on limitation page. Trophy Room Books & Rowland Ward Ltd hardcover
1984ref. 7065Clinton NJ: Amwell Press 1984. Trade Edition. Hardcover. VG/Very Good Plus. Williams Dick. 269 pp ill. Foreword by Jack Atcheson. Authorized for the Great Bear Foundation. A popular bear hunting book. Vg in like slipcase. Very popular bear hunting title.This is the trade edition not the limited. Amwell Press hardcover
1984ref. 7066Clinton NJ: Amwell Press 1984. Trade Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Confessions of a Gun Editor. 247 pp ill. Trade edition of the popular book printed after Jack was departed. Super reading on all sorts of sporting related subjects. Fine in fine original slipcase. Remember this is the TRADE edition not the signed limited. Amwell Press hardcover
1989ref. 7075Clinton NJ: Amwell Press 1989. First Limited to 1000 Copies. Hardcover. Fine/Orig Slipcase Fine. 224 pp ill. A professional hunter - and a popular one at that - talks about his remarkable hunting life on two continents: Africa and North America. Fine in like orig. slipcase. A pristine copy looks like it has never been read. Amwell Press hardcover
2004ref. 7085Atascadero CA: Mission Trail 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. New/As New. Broom G. & Boddington C. A LIFE ON SAFARI 2004 CA Stated first edition. Privately printed for the authors. 234 pp ill. Broom has hunted from the top to the bottom of the African continent and is one of the most admired African Safari operators. His Matetsi safaris operates in Tanzania Botswana Zambia and they operate also in South Africa Zimbabwe and Namibia. He has truly lived his life on safari. Boddington needs no introduction he has hunted just about everywhere in Africam often more than once and has been numerous times with Matetsi. He even refers to Geoff as his old friend and mentor. Fine in like dj. Inscrbied by Geoff to former owner. Mission Trail hardcover
1988ref. 7081NJ: Amwell Press 1988. Ltd Ed 1000 copies. Hardcover. Fine/Orig Slipcase Fine. 225 pp. ill. Deer elk antelope in N. America kudu eland gemsbok in Africa. Ltd to 1000 signed numbered slipcased copies from the Natl Sporting Fraternity. Fine in like slipcase. Amwell Press hardcover
1913ref. 7092New York: Hurst & Blackett 1913. First American. Hardcover. VG. And other recollections during 13 years wanderings. With an intro by Theodore Roosevelt. 379 pp ill. One of the great elephant hunting classics by the prolific and widely collected and respected author of big game hunting classics. Vg in original cloth binding. The spine has faded slightly otherwise this would be a near fine copy. Classic collectible and great reading book. Very small former owner's bookplate but contents are fine. Hurst & Blackett hardcover
1983ref. 7098Clinton NJ: Amwell Press 1983. First Limited to 1000 Copies. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. Darro Peter. Foreword by Elgin Gates. 264 pp. ill. Tiger in India the African big five Bear in N America and a chapter on rifles for big game. The 4th in the Natl Sporting Fraternity African hunting heritage series. One of 1000 signed numbered slipcased copies. Fine in Vg slipcase. Warmly inscribed by Batten to Gene Hill. Amwell Press hardcover
1981ref. 7093Clinton NJ: Amwell Press 1981. First Limited to 1000 2 vol Sets. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Plus. Kuhn Bob. 2 vol: 438 & 470 pp. cheetah leopard lion cougar jaguar tiger. 900 pages of writings culled from the best ever on the subjects. A fine anthology. This signed limited ed set was so popular that a condensed one vol ed was later issued. As issued the case for this book was too small and most copies have some damage to case. This copy has almost no damage to case but it requires care and patience to take books out of case. Slight spotting on book covers. Contents are fine. See images on website. Amwell Press hardcover
2020ref. 7099Hunting Beach CA: Safari Press 2020. First - Limited to 1000 Copies. Hardcover. Fine/Orig Slipcase Fine. 308 pp ill in color. The well regarded prolific magazine writer has produced an update to his very successful Buffalo! which was done in 2006. He has included more subspecies of African buffalo as well as the Water Buffalo from Australia. All done in the easy reading style he so well known for. This copy like new in like slipcase. Safari Press hardcover
1981ref. 7096Clinton NJ: Amwell Press 1981. First limited #96 of 100. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Plus. Gordon Allen. 318 pp ill. This fantastic mountain game sheep hunting book sold out almost as soon as it was issued. If you collect any of the NSF or Batten books you know this is one of their combined best. Sheep in N America Iran Altai Mountains and elsewhere in Central Asia. Book is fine in vg slipcase. All of Batten's book have been popular for the past 30 years! This copy with nice personal inscription to Gene Hill. Amwell Press hardcover
1959ref. 7095Sioux Falls SD: Privately Printed 1959. First. Hardcover. VG. 43 pp ill with drawings end paper maps. Decorative leopard cloth binding. A long safari in East Africa with noted Professional Hunter John Kingsley-Heath when he worked at Ker & Downey Safaris after a host of dangerous and other game. Title in swahili means leopard. VG in original leopard patterned cloth. Privately Printed hardcover
1900ref. 7105London: F E Robinson 1900. First. Hardcover. Fine. being an account of two expeditions into the far interior together with a complete list of every animal and bird known to inhabit that country and a list of reptiles collected by the author. With notes on equipment needs to complete a big game shooting expedition and notes as well on sporring wild game. 345 pp profuse ill. Folding map. Many hunting adventures including the big five as well as plains game. Bound in full morocco with raised spine bands. A lovely vg copy of a highly collectible book. F E Robinson hardcover
1906ref. 7113London: Privately Printed 1906. First. Hardcover. VG. 415 pp 112 ill pull out rear pocket map. Jessen was an ardent hunter and made many trips through African game countries. He was a friend of most noted sportsmen of the day including the McMillins. It is estimated that only about 200 copies were printed.Vg in orig. red gilt cloth. Four major trips hunting in East Africa Sudan and Abyssinia for all large and small plains game. Privately Printed hardcover
1915ref. 7271Boston Ma: Chapple Publishing Company 1915. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 410 pp profuse ill. Hunting throughout East Africa and into northwester Rhodesia now Zambia. Two very long and very fruitful safaris after dangerous game much on elephants as well a the glamor game of East Africa and what is now Zambia. Truly the hunting spirit races through these pages and will inspire even the laziest armchair adventurer. Nice near fine copy in original green cloth. Would be fine except for almost imperciptible blind stamp on title page. Chapple Publishing Company hardcover
1891ref. 7277London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1891. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Two very large 8vo volumes. 529 & 472 pp. Over 170 woodcut illustrations and maps. Large folding maps in both volumes. Both volumes in highly pictorial original red cloth deco and gilt stamped bindings. Covers Stanley's great journey through Africa: the quest rescue and retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. Note in this set the big folding map is present and bound in vol 1 and vol 2. A vg copy. Stanley was a very popular author as noted by the fact that this set was printed the year after release and is a fifth edition. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington hardcover
1908ref. 7273London: Edward Arnold 1908. First. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hunting in British East Africa. 340 pp ill incl some by Edmund Caldwell. Pictorial cover: elephant head. Throughout Equatorial Africa the Athi Plains Baringo and Mau forests. A consistently sought after big game hunting book. Much on elephant and lion hunting. A lovely near fine copy in orig. pictorial cloth. Very nice bookplate of Lincoln Ellsworth American Arctic Explorer. Edward Arnold hardcover
2004ref. 7274Huntington Beach: Safari Press 2004. Limited Ed 500 Copies. Hardcover. Near Fine/Orig Slipcase vg-vg. The Hunting Saga of Prince HRH Abdorreza of Iran. Limited ed of onlt 500 signed numbered slipcased copies. 324 pp profuse ill. Hunting as only a modern royal could do it. Armed with enthusiasm and unlimited funds the trophies he collected were superb. Extra large format very heavy book. Near fine in like orig. slipcase. Safari Press hardcover
1908ref. 7281London: The Bodley Head 1908. First. Hardcover. Very Good. 276 pp. Ill. Throughout eastern Africa. Comments on game on a species by species basis. Dickinson was the British Commissioner for British East Africa. One of the new titles recommended by President Roosevelt in his Life Histories of African Game Animals bibliography. A very nice copy that looks unread. Slight fading to spine and an almost unnoticeable publishers blind stamp on title page. The Bodley Head hardcover
1995ref. 6859Huntington Beach: Safari Press 1995. First Limited to 1000 Copies. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Joseph Vance. 479 pp ill. Eleventh title in the Classics in African Hunting Series and one of only eight in the Sanchez Arino edited country series. Limited to 1000 signed numbered slipcased copies. Includes contributions from a who's who of big game hunters in Ethiopia. From former noted hunters to the current day. Large thick very heavy blockbuster book. Contains author biographies and a bibliography as well. Book & slipcase fine. Safari Press hardcover
