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rif. 46859Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co. between 1912 and 1915. ""Copyright no. 2607"". Thin board with original cloth backstrip 310 x 480 mm folding; chromolithographed game board in red blue yellow and black; pictorial onlaid title label to outer board; an extremely god example. This appears to be an early version of the Yacht Race game. Not only are the graphics entirely different to those in later versions but the small life ring featured in the National Game Company trademark device actually bears the date 1912. hardcover
rif. 46857Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co. c.1920. ""Copyright no. 3273"". Game board 310 x 475 mm folding with pasted-down chromolithographed design; outer boards with pictorial title label to front; original cloth backstrip; an extremely good example. The design features the Australian Red Ensign with seven-pointed Commonwealth star. The Red Ensign was used as the national flag between 1901 and 1954 by State and local governments private organisations and individuals. Scarce. hardcover
rif. 46863Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co. c.1910. Thick board 365 x 370 mm folding with cloth backed spine; fold-out colour-printed game board front board with pictorial colour onlaid title label with an early gift inscription; game board in very good condition outer boards lightly foxed and with one bruised corner; a good example. Scarce and attractive. 'National Games of Ballarat and Melbourne produced a wide range of games mainly during the early half of the 20th century in Australia. The company had its beginnings in Ballarat by W. Owen in 1877 growing to prominence towards the end of the century and has been credited to have been the first large-scale Australian manufacturer of locally-designed board games. Application for the actual trademark name National was recorded in 1899 by Christopher George King. Games were often related to Australia's love for recreation and sport; such as cycling golf football tennis and cricket as well as various forms of racing such as motorcars aeroplanes horse or yachting. Contemporary themes of the period produced games such as the exploration of Antarctica World War I the Boer War and the boy scouts. Games that reinforced the moralilty of the times included courtship and marriage snakes and ladders and Fairytales and fables. The design of the boards was colourful and attractive. Many of the games were obviously re-vamped over time with more suitable modern graphics for the changing eras. Christopher George King has been acknowledged as the designer and manufacturer of the games made by the National Games Company. He designed the board games from around the early 1900's till the late 1920's and copyrights can be found in the National Archives of Australia. He is listed in the Victorian electoral rolls as a manufacturer living in Melbourne during the early part of the 20th Century. He was born in England and died at the age of 63 in 1928. The National Game Co. continued to issue board games as late as the 1940s.' - Board Game Geek blog https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepublisher/5874/national-game-company hardcover
rif. DADAX0367879913Routledge 2019-12-12. 1. paperback. New. 6.14x0.80x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge paperback
rif. ING9781506739601Dark Horse Books. New. Special order direct from the distributor Dark Horse Books unknown
rif. 63841London: Published by “East Africa” East Africa Ltd. 1928. Tall 8vo. xvi 318 pp. Frontisp. map with numerous photo plates. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear edgewear rubbing w/ printed dark brown d.j. minor scuffing edgewear couple closed tears tidemarks at couple corners still VG-/G copy. First edition of this very scarce follow-up to this African adventurer’s “King of the Wa-kikuyu” and relates his adventures as an elephant ivory poacher in the Lado Enclave of East Africa and travels through British East Africa Uganda Belgian Congo and Ethiopia. He was the first Eurocaucasian trader to travel from Addis Ababa Ethiopia to the capital of Kenya. Boyes 1874-1951 first arrived in East Africa when Nairobi was largely uninhabited made friends with the Kikuyu was admitted to their blood brotherhood became their uncrowned king and later settled down as a coffee grower and dairy farmer. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Published by “East Africa,” East Africa, Ltd., hardcover
1929rif. 63842London: H.F. & G. Witherby 1929. Tall 8vo. 223 pp. plus 1 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates throughout by W. Woodhouse. Red embossed publisher’s cloth gilt lettering & ruling on spine minor bumping to couple corners edgewear to lower fore-edges dustsoiling to upper fore-edge minor sunning head of spine w/ d.j. wraparound cover art image of hunter shooting at a man-eater lion w/ brushfire in the background chipping & tear to head of spine w/ about 1.75 in. of loss to lettering chipping & edgewear to foot of spine some minor creasing still a VG/G- copy w/ mimeographed private library slip laid-in for M.R. Steele and bookseller’s label on rear pastedown. First edition stated of this work describing the author’s hunting adventures while leading an American hunting party through the African bush tracking down man-eating lions and rogue elephants. Chadwick 1882 had first emigrated to South Africa in the 1920’s and became a transport rider and member of the Bechuanaland Protectorate Police while working as a professional hunter earning a living selling ivory and lion skins from his trophies. The original dustjacket is exceedingly scarce with Ellen Herring of Trophy Room Books noting that they had only seen this one copy. H.F. & G. Witherby, hardcover
1926rif. 63787St. Louis MO: C.V. Mosby Co. 1926. 8vo. 207 1 pp. Photo frontisp. 114 photo text illustations 1 map. Red publisher’s cloth black lettering front cover & spine minor shelfwear still VG copy. First edition of this memoir of travel and big game hunting primarily for man-eating tigers through French Indo-China Cambodia and India between-the-Wars drawn from letters initially serially published in The Kansas City Star and subsequently assembled here. C.V. Mosby Co., hardcover
1941rif. 63851New York: Robert M. McBride & Co. 1941. Tall 8vo. 277 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Brick-red publisher’s cloth blue lettering pictorial map endpapers slight shelfwear 2 pp. w/ soiling a few leaves at rear w/ ragged fore-edges from poor opening w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by George Salter 1897-1967 and one of his earliest for the American book market minor creasing light dustsoiling to back cover 1 very small closed tear First edition stated & signed of this rousing autobiographical memoir of how this Texan rose from raw beginnings as a bellhop in a Chicago Hotel to become one of the most well-known 20th-Century adventurers. He has interspersed this account with tales hunting animals in Burma Sumatra Tibet Borneo Malaysia Singapore New Guinea and other places around the globe for sale to zoos complete with the uncommon dustjacket. Robert M. McBride & Co., hardcover
1820rif. 17762Amsterdam: Steendrukkerij van C. Goos 1820. The cards are kept in the original publisher's marbled slipcase ca. 4.8 x 7.2 cm with 2 engraved labels one with the title and imprint and one with the rules of the game. Set of 42 lithographed miniature playing cards 21 for Cloris printed in grey and 21 for Roosje printed in blue. Most charming set of miniature playing cards for use of a somewhat daring party game between young people of both sexes. The 42 cards each with an illustration of a couple and a four-line verse are either titled "Cloris" or "Roosje". The Cloris cards were divided between the boys and the Roosje cards between the girls. One of the young men would "propose" by reading the verse of one of his cards and one of the young ladies would answer by reading hers. The verses were full of love and desire but since the cards were read at random Roosje's reponse would not always be the logical answer to Cloris' proposal leading to hilarious situations.The name of the game most likely refers to De bruiloft van Kloris en Roosje which was a Dutch farce written by Dirk Buysero at the end of the 17th century. The play became incredibly popular. It was performed yearly throughout most of the 18th century and still widely known in the 19th century.The slipcase is scuffed and partly torn around the edges and corners. Otherwise in good condition.l Cat. De Koning 617; Gumuchian 3223. Steendrukkerij van C. Goos, unknown
rif. 46651Melbourne : National Game Co. c.1916. Thin board 310 x 475 mm folding recto with colour printed design a few stains and scuffs verso with pictorial title label spine repaired a very good example of this game. A copy of this board game is held in the National Archives of Australia; the Powerhouse Museum holds a copy of a later variant edition. unknown
1952rif. 63021Paris: Imprimeurs L.I.E.S.A. 174 Quae de Jemmapes 1952. Oblong 4to. 9.25 x 7.75 in. 2 24 pp. colour-lithograph illustrations throughout 10 leaves unnumbered. consisting of 4 colour lithograph boards to cut out alphabet letters for playing 2 black & white lithograph letter pages for colouring cutting out themselves and playing word games 1 thick instruction leaf 3 printed leaves on blue- salmon- and green-tinted thin paper instruction sheets. Flexible boards colour-lithographed front cover rear board with model figures on verso to be cut out to create paper-engineered toys spiral metal comb binding as issued minor edgewear age toning still a VG and complete copy. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated and charming alphabet game/book featuring anthropomorphic letters in the “Kingdom of the Alphabet” set against the adventures of a Medieval/Renaissance Country of Vowels and the Isle of Consonants uniting over a banquet ball to form an alphabet. Marquet 1892-1984 and Desnoyer 1901-1988 were illustrators and miniaturists noted for their inventive games and illustrations who had originally designed this game/book in 1939. They were married to the well known painters Albert Marquet and Francois Denoyer respectively. Desnoyer a Russian-Ukrainian emigre from Kiev had originally landed in Bohemia by 1906 where she learned the Western alphabet and later settled in France. This particular copy not only features the four colour lithograph boards for children to cut out and play the suggested alphabet game but also the 2 additional boards for an adult word game and back board to create toys which are typically missing as are often the colour-tinted instruction sheets. Worldcat locates 4 copies U of WA & Princeton Incomplete Bibliotheque Nationale FR & Bibliotheque des Chiroux BE -- complete; See: Robert Bolick Books on Books Collection -- Souza Desnoyer and Marcelle Marquet Il etait une fois un alphabet 1951-2009 Dec. 22 2022. Imprimeurs L.I.E.S.A., 174, Quae de Jemmapes, hardcover
rif. 46025Ballarat and Melbourne : National Game Co. c.1920. ""Copyright no. 3273"". Thick board 310 x 475 mm folding original cloth backstrip fold-out game board printed in colour small split to fold exterior sunned edges rubbed title label perished a good copy. The design features the Australian Red Ensign with seven-pointed Commonwealth star. The Red Ensign was used as the national flag between 1901 and 1954 by State and local governments private organisations and individuals. Scarce. The only institutional copy of this game board we can locate is held in the National Library of Australia while the collection of Museums Victoria has the small box that originally accompanied the board containing the original playing counters rules sheet and teetotum. hardcover
1959rif. 62583London: Robert Hale Ltd. 1959. 8vo. 191 1 pp. Numerous photo plates. Burgundy-coloured publisher’s boards gilt lettering on spine minor foxing & dustsoiling to upper fore-edge of textblock occasional light foxing w/ d.j. cover art of Tiger by Val Biro slight dustsoiling shelfwear still a VG/NF copy. Second printing of this authoritative work on tiger hunting in the Game Departent of Gwalior State Madyhya Pradesh and Jaipur Rajasthan relating his sagas of tiger hunts hunting and killing cattle-stealing tigers man-eating tigers terrorizing villages as well as organizing hunts of the Maharaja’s along with King George V Lord Reading and Lord Mountbatten. Robert Hale, Ltd., hardcover
1938rif. 62095London: Stanley Paul and Co. Ltd. 1938. Tall 8vo. 287 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates with 56 photo illustrations. Scarlet-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear minor bumping to couple corners slight foxing to fore-edges 1 sunned spot from d.j. tear on spine w/ d.j. cover art of tribesman hunting with bow & arrow by R.W. Bellmer edgewear minor tear to spine lower fore-edge front cover minor creasing still VG-/G copy from the library of J.R. Brocklebank The United Africa Co. Ltd. and was member of the Royal African Society with printed card laid-in. First edition of this rousing anthology of reminiscences from the prolific author on his hunts and travels through South Africa West Africa and Zanzibar. Included here are sections on lion hunting in Northern Rhodesia diamond hunting on the Vaal River driving across the Kalahari and more. Uncommon in dustjacket. Stanley Paul and Co., Ltd., hardcover
1931rif. 62097New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1931. Tall 8vo. 288 pp. Photo frontisp. 45 photos on plates 1 map. Orange publisher’s cloth black lettering front cover & spine very minor shelfwear slight foxing at fore-edges w/ d.j. striking Art Deco cover art of Lioness on front cover minor chipping head & foot of spine wear at corners couple minor nicks & closed tears old tape repairs on verso still NF/G copy. First American edition stated of this well-written narrative devoted primarily to the hunting of African Elephants spears and firearms Hippo’s lion hunting along with chapters on African Witchcraft the Dinka peoples Sudan and night photography. The pair are perhaps best-known for their 1927 Cape to Cairo automobile travel memoir by Stella Court Treatt who with her then husband Major Chaplin Court Treatt headed the Court Treatt Expedition the first to drive a motor vehicle from Cape Town South Africa to Cairo Egypt. Traveling in two Royal Flying Corps surplus Crossley BGT1 Light Trucks from Sept. 13 1924 to Jan. 24 1926 they covered 12732 miles in sixteen months across the African continent through South Africa Zambia Zimbabwe Kenya Uganda Sudan and Egypt. Scarce in original dustjacket. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., hardcover
1957rif. 62102New York: Oxford Univ. Press 1957. Three works in one vol. 8vo. xiii 1 233 1; 188; 197 1 pp. With illust. title photo plate tables charts. Orange tweed boards tiger paw print on front cover pictorial map endpapers minor shelfwear slight rubbing w/ d.j. cover art of tiger stalking minor scuffing edgewear price-clipped still VG/VG copy. First American omnibus edition of this extraordinary trilogy recounting Corbett’s experiences as big game hunter of Man-Eating Tigers in his lifetime career in India. He hunted down eight man-eating tigers and two man-eating leopards and in The Chowgarh Tigers he records his year-long quest from 1929-1930 to hunt and ill a female tiger that killed over 64 people in her five-year rampage. Corbett was a meticulous hunter expert tracker and persistent in preparation and often carried his favorite rifles - an M98 bolt-action Rigby-Mauser and a .450-400 Double Barrel Nitro Express. Oxford Univ. Press, hardcover
1913rif. 62084London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1913. Thick 8vo. xvi 2 216 1 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. 23 photo plates. Pictorial green linen publisher’s cloth gilt illustration front cover of tiger attacking elephant and hunter gilt lettering front cover & spine very slight bumping to couple corners minor shelfwear slight foxing to fore-edges w/ d.j. dark gray-green paper illust. repeated on front cover in blue blue lettering VG/NF copy w/ “Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge” prize bookplate on front pastedown to F.H. Giltrap of Mountjoy School in 1914. Second edition of this informative memoir drawn from personal interviews experiences and notebooks of big game hunter and late Inspector General of Police Bombay Digby Davies as well as the author’s own sporting experiences. At the time he had been specifically requested to eliminate all personal names and references in the incidents with Davies whom Gouldsbury would specifically mention in the follow-up “Tiger Slayer by Order” 1915. Gouldsbury writes of numerous encounters with tigers in his own adventures hunting from elephant back and machans as well as leopards and maruading elephants with additional references to bison ibex and others. Davies relates his time serving during the Sepoy Mutiny work as a sporting inspector and specifically hunting down tigers elephants and others endangering villagers and livestock. One chapter specifically mentions hunting a 419 lb. tiger stretching over 10 feet 7 inches from nose to end of tail and standing 3 1/2 feet which had terrorized villagers killing cattle across Bengal. Very rare in original dustjacket. Chapman & Hall, Ltd., hardcover
1938rif. 62103New York: William Morrow & Co. 1938. 8vo. 352 pp. Photo frontisp. photo plates throughout 1 map. Blue publisher’s cloth blue lettering & decoration on spine very minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art photo scuffing & rubbing to foot of spine edgewear still a NF/VG copy. First American edition issued undated using the Collins sheets of this outstanding account of hunting lions & leopards and exploration across Darfur Sudan and Libyan desert with his wife Vi Henriques prior to World War II. Henriques 1905-1967 had completed an earlier Big Game hunting expedition from the Blue Nile to Dinder River in 1928 as well and later during World War II was lent to General Patton’s staff participated in the Casablanca North Africa Campaigns and the landing assaults on Sicily with the US armed forces. Scarce in original dustjacket. William Morrow & Co., hardcover
1910rif. 60826New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1910. Tall thick 8vo. xv 1 529 1 pp. Photogravure frontisp. numerous plates photos some photogravures maps text photos & illusts. Khaki-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on front cover & spine gilt elephant silhouette profile decorations t.e.g. very slight sunning to spine also very slight bumping to foot of spine NF mostly uncut & unopened copy. First edition of this famed work on African big game hunting chronicling the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition to collect specimens for the new Natural History Museum. The 11400 specimens shipped back from the expedition took Smithsonian naturalists over eight years to catalogue. Charles Scribner’s Sons, hardcover
rif. 231114Paris: Collection J. Hertzel & Cie. 1 vols. 8vo. Faux Red publisher's cloth binding marbled edges opening to marbled interior. About fine. 1 vols. 8vo. Collection J. Hertzel & Cie unknown
1912rif. 60617Toronto: The Copp Clark Co. Ltd. 1912. 8vo. xvi 246 pp. Photogravure frontisp. by Carl Rungius 3 photogravure plates by Rungius numerous photo plates 5 maps 1 folding. Publisher’s blue-green cloth gilt illust. of Grizzly Bear & lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. minor shelfwear slight rubbing occasional light spotting still VG bright copy. First Canadian edition of this well-illustrated and documented account of hunting and observing on Vancouver Island Montague Island Queen Charlotte Islands and includes a chapter of his wife Louisa Walker Gulliver Sheldon’s b. 1880 experiences bear hunting on Admiralty Island. Sheldon 1867-1928 trekked by steamboat canoe pack horse and on foot with other explorers and hunters such as Frederick Selous William H. Osgood and Carl Rungius hunting caribou grizzly bears moose and other big game as well. The Copp, Clark Co., Ltd., hardcover
1935rif. 59984Birmingham & London UK: St. Mary’s Row 40 Pall Mall ca. 1935. Two pieces. 8vo. 37 1 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. With numerous photo & text illustrations throughout. Textured green softcovers raised gilt lettering front cover yapp fore-edges slight shelfwear NF copy; 4 pp unpaginated. printed on gold-tinted paper photo & text illustrations self-printed softcovers NF. First edition of these exceedingly scarce Depression-era gun catalogues issued by the W.W. Greener William Wellington firm which had first developed the breach-loader gun as well as inventing the famous cross-bolt and an effective system of choke boring. This Greener Gun catalogue includes Greener’s Presentation Guns which could be chiseled and gold ornamented along with Side Lock Hammerless Ejector Guns miniature models trap models featherweith models and even the Greener Light Model Harpoon Gun. The second piece opens with long endorsement from Yeta III Paramount Chief of Barotseland who would rule from 1916-1945 and was an avid hunter who shot with Greener Rifles and Shot Guns noting here that three-quarters of his hippopotamus trophies had been made with the Greener .375 Double first purchased in 1904. No copies of either in Worldcat. St. Mary’s Row, 40, Pall Mall, paperback
1966rif. 59977New York: New American Library 1966. 8vo. 333 3 pp. Numerous photo plates illust. endpapers. Half blue & black cloth gilt lettering & illust. of Rhino on front cover minor dustsoiling edgewear very faint soiling front cover w/ d.j. very faint tide mark upper fore-edge front cover hint at foot of back cover VG-/VG- copy. First edition 1st printing stated of this classic work on Big Game Hunting. New American Library, hardcover
1894rif. 59978London: Longmans Green and Co. 1894. Two. vols. xvi 453 1; x 443 1 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Frontisp. both vols. illustrated title pages plates text illustrations photo illustrations throughout both vols. Pictorial brown publisher’s cloth white & black lettering front covers & spines gilt illust. on spines of lion & moose some minor soiling rubbing minor bumping to a few corners slight fraying head & foot of spines still VG- set from the library of Joseph Anderton w/ armorial bookplate on front pastedowns Non Flectimus. First editions of these volumes in The Badminton Library featuring extensive hunts in South Africa and East Africa in vol. I with chapters on elephant buffalo lion rhinoceros hippopotamus ostriches giraffes lion and musk ox; while vol. II details hunting in the Arctic the Caucasus Alps and substantial portion for hunting in India. Longmans, Green, and Co., hardcover
