The Foundation of British East Africa
London: Horace Marshall, 1901. First. Set in Zippered Leather Pouch. 271 pp. LACKING MAP in rear. Original board cover with map of E Africa has been set in leather pouch. Little better than a reading copy. More
London: Horace Marshall, 1901. First. Set in Zippered Leather Pouch. 271 pp. LACKING MAP in rear. Original board cover with map of E Africa has been set in leather pouch. Little better than a reading copy. More
London: Pall Mall Press, 1967. First. Hardcover. 179 pp. Amn interesting look at a country that always throughout history seems to have been a focal point in east-west conflicts. Fine in near fine jacket. Hard to believe "this country is breaking through from the middle ages right into the 20th..... More
NY: Frank Walters, 1933. First. Hardcover. A hunter's wanderings in Alaska and British Columbia. 211 pp, ill. One of the few books published with the "approval" of the Boone & Crockett Club on title page. Excellent work on sheep and bear hunting in Alaska and British Columbia by a noted..... More
Trophy Room Books. First Limited Ed: 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. Three limited edition big game hunting books - on sale $295.00 + free media mail postage. That's a 25% discount. Holmberg, Andrew OUT IN AFRICA the extraordinary life and times of Andrew Holmberg. Foreword by Tony Dyer. 2000 Agoura CA. Limited..... More
NY: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1957. First. Hardcover. 240 pp, ill. Hunter's second very popular book about African big game hunting. Fine (former owner's printed bookplate inside front cover) in vg+ dj. When this book was published, a local magazine said that Hunter was probably the greatest big game hunter of all..... More
NY: Appleton-Century Crofts, 1957. First American. Hardcover. 240 pp, ill. Hunter's second very popular book about African big game hunting. When this book was published, a local magazine said that Hunter was probably the greatest big game hunter of all time. Certainly this book is great reading. Former owner blindstamps..... More
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 308 pp, ill, bibliography, endpaper maps. The exciting adventures of the remarkable group of men who opened up wildest Africa amid almost unbelievable dangers and difficulties. Includes the exploits of white hunters and poachers. Always a popular book. Couple of pages had..... More
CA: Safari Press, 1986. Reprint Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. 282 pp, ill. reprint of JA Hunter's scarce first book. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, slipcased. This is the first book in Safari Press' African series. Book and slipcase fine. More
Lahore: Civil & Military Gazette, 1923. Fourth. Orig Printed Stiff Boards. 75 pp, index, large folding map in rear. This new edition is intended to give only information likely to be of permanent value and as such is practically a new guide. VG in orig. printed stiff wraps. More
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1956. First. Hardcover. True tales of hunting and adventure. 250 pp, ill. Life and adventures of John Alfred Jordan, at one time the world's most notorious ivory poacher and later one of Africa's finest professional hunters. Former owner's faint blindstamp. VG+ to near fine in..... More
Cape Town: Juta, 1885. New and Revised. No Binding. containing Cape Colony, Natal, South African republic, Orange Free State, Griqualand, Kaffraria, Basutoland, Zululand, Damaraland, Betshuanaland and other territories. Compiled from the best available Colonial and Imperial information incl. Dr. Hahn's Damaraland and the official Caoe Colony map. Orig publ in..... More
Cape Town: Juta, 1895. New and Revised. No Binding. from the Cape to the Zambesi. Compiled from the best available Colonial and Importial info. incl. the official Cape Colony Map by the Surveyor-General, Cape Town, Dr. Hahn's Damaraland and FC Selous' journa;s and sketches. New and revised edition. Publ by..... More
Cape Town: Juta, 1896. New and Revised. No Binding. from the Cape to the Zambesi compiled from best avail. Colonial and Imperial info. incl. the official Cape Colony map by the surveyor general Cape Town, Dr Hahn's Damaraland and FC Selous' journals and sketches. New & revised ed. Folding linen..... More
Cape Town: Juta, 1899. New and Revised. No Binding. from the Cape to the Zambesi compiled from the best avail. Colonial & Imperial info. incl. the official Cape Colony Map by the surveyor-general Cape Town, Dr Hahn's Damaraland and F C Selous' journals and sketches. New and revised ed. Folding..... More
Hamden CT: Archon Books, 1979. First American. Hardcover. Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1865-1895. 277 pp, ill., text maps. Index. They came, they saw and they conquered. Exploration of 40,000 square miles of the world's highest mountains, an unknown and impossibly remote wilderness which became for a while the flash..... More
London: Henry Frowde, 1903. First. Orig Self Closing Case. with examples of phrases and conversational sentences. 83 pp. In remarkably nice condition, showing almost no signs of use. All edges gilt. More
Oxford: Clarendon Pres, 1886. First. Hardcover. being an account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (AD 399-414) in search of the Buddhist Books of discipline. 123 pp, ill + lengthy appendix of original manuscript in Chinese. VG copy in original printed boards, over cloth..... More
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1988. Dick Williams. First Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. 152 pp, ill. Mountain lion (cougar) hunting. Good book on the subject by a noted cougar hunter. Limited to 1,000 signed numbered slipcased copies. Fine in like slipcase. Of interest to anyone who likes really good reading..... More
London England: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826. First in English. Hardcover. written by himself in the Jaghatai Turki (and translated by Leyden and Erskine). Notes plus geographical and historical introductions together with a map of the countries between the Oxus and Jaxartes and a memoir regarding its construction..... More
Santa Fe NM: State Game Commission Dept of Game and Fish, 1927. First Edition. Soft cover. Its conservation and management. Being a report on the game survey of the state in 1926 and 1927. 212 pp, profuse ill. Lovely gilt embossed cover with raised gilt embossed bighorn sheep head and..... More
NY: Privately printed for the author, 1939. First Edition. Soft cover. Macnab, A.J. THE WHITE GIRAFFE: An African Diary. 1939 NY 61 pp. Ill. Soft covers. Privately printed for the author. MacNab hunted with author/hunter Harry Snyder AND his guide was the well known JA HUNTER. Rare privately printed item..... More
Agoura CA: Trophy Room Books, 2002. First - Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. 389 pages, 143 black and white photographic ill. 8 1/2 x 11 inch format. Mac's final book before passing away. A nearly 400-page blockbuster. Covers the antelope of Africa, and the spiral-horned antelope together with antlered game..... More
Tucson AZ: Privately printed, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 1989 AZ 204 pp Ill. Mac's first book on Asian mountain hunting. Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan. Fine in near fine dj. More
Agoura CA: Trophy Room Books, 2000. First Edition Ltd 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. All THREE signed, numbered limited (1,000) copies editions by the founder of Safari Club International. McElroy Hunts Dangerous Game, McElroy Hunts Mountain Game and McElroy Hunts the Antelopes of Africa and Antlered Game. Three large format books, hundreds..... More