Camden SC: Briar Patch Press, 1987. Trade Ed. Reprint Trade Ed. Full Leather. with a new intro by J. Casada. 606 pp, ill, fold out map. Classic on African hunting and exploration. Important work in the Briar Patch African collection series. All edges gilt. Adventures among elephants, lion, rhino, hippo... More
New York: A L Burt. Hardcover. 426 pp, + pub ads in rear. Baker's popular fiction story dedicated to young boys. VG. More
London and New York: Longmans Green, 1895. New Edition. Hardcover. 376 pp, ill. Baker spent 8 years living on the island. More natural history than hunting but includes a fair amount of hunting for elephant and hunting wild boar and sambur. VG+ in orig. maroon cloth with silver stamping. All... More
Camden SC: Briar Patch Press, 1987. Trade Ed. Reprint. Hardcover. 455 pp, ill, all edges gilt. Africa, Asia, Europe and America for lion, elephant, leopard, bear and buffalo. A hunting classic. Baker's writings inspired many other turn of the century hunters. Fine. More
England: Woobury Process. Woodbury. Soft cover. Baker, Sir Samuel ORIGINAL WOODBURY PHOTOGRAPH 4 7/8" oval. Housed in thick stock paper (10 3/4 x 8 1/4). Crisp, clean, handsome b/w photo that is sharp & fresh. Accompanied by a 1 pg biography of Baker (same size paper as that which houses... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. First. Hardcover. Travels and Adventures on the Perso-Turkoman Frontier. 376 pp, ill (some colored), 3 large folding maps in front. VG in orig green blindstamped cloth. Some wear at corners and spine tips professionally (and obscurely) strengthened. More
London: Kegan Paul Trench, 1883. Second Edition. Hardcover. and the North-Western Provinces of India. 380 pp, ill. A CLASSIC work on hunting in India. Much tiger hunting (in the Terai, Assam, Mirzapore). Also hunting other game (panther, bear, buffalo, boar, deer). Some note on mountain game: Ovis ammon, serow, goral... More
United Kingdom: Antony Atha, 1978. 1st ltd to 950 copies. Full Leather. 131 pp, 12 colored plates, drawings of deer stalking and deer. Ltd to 950 numbered copies. Oblong 4 to. Bound in full gilt morocco, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Slipcased. A lovely work on deer and deer... More
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1961. Lodge, G. First. Hardcover. 320 pp. ill. More
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1953. First. Hardcover. Two volumes totalling 1,525 pp., 54 full page plates incl. 30 in color and 433 text figures. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. First. Hardcover. the Dalai Lama's fight for Tibet. 235 pp, end paper maps. More
Kansas City, MO: Lowell Press, 1974. Anderson, D. 1974. Hardcover. 313 pp. ill. Popular book with a lot about mountain lion (cougar) hunting and other adventures. A fine (almost as new) copy in like dj. More
NY: D Appleton, 1915. First American. Hardcover. 283 pp, ill. From Kenya into other well known hunting grounds pf E Africa and Congo. In the Ituri forest and cannibal lands after elephant, rhinoceros and much more. Scarce book. Better than Vg (spine dull) but not quite VG+ copy in orig... More
Elizabethton TN: Privately printed, 1982. First Edition. Soft cover. 150 pp, ill. Printed soft covers. This is mainly a sheep hunting book (Wrangell Mountains, Granite Mountain, and elsewhere) although the author does recount North Carolina deer hunt, mountain lion hunting in Arizona, Polar bear in ALaska, etc. Not well known... More
Elizabethton TN: Privately printed, 1982. First Edition. Soft cover. 150 pp, ill. Printed soft covers. This is mainly a sheep hunting book (Wrangell Mountains, Granite Mountain, and elsewhere) although the author does recount North Carolina deer hunt, mountain lion hunting in Arizona, Polar bear in ALaska, etc. Not well known... More
NY: Prentice-Hall, 1970. Hardcover. 261 pp, ill. O'Connor on dangerous game, Gates, Rikhoff, Warren Page and many more. Excellent African big game hunting book. VG+ in near fine dj. More
NY: Prentice-Hall, 1970. Hardcover. 261 pp, ill. O'Connor on dangerous game, Gates, Rikhoff, Warren Page and many more. Excellent African big game hunting book. Near fine in near fine dj. More
Huntington Beach: Safari Press, 1994. First - Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. 276 pp, ill. Barrington was the professional who took (among other notables) John Batten. He also married Batten's daughter. Much on hunting big trophies and the big five throughout eastern Africa. Fine in fine orig slipcase. More
Philadelphia: Bradley & C0, 1865. American. Hardcover. in North and Central Africa being the journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of HBM's government in the years 849-1855. 538 pp, ill. Barth was a German explorer who went to Africa to try to open up relations with European countries... More
United Kingdom: New Orchard Editions, 1986. Second. Hardcover. A pictorial history of the area from 1839 to 1947. 184 pp. Profuse b/w photographic ill. More
Agoura CA: Trophy Room Books, 1994. First Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. 262 pp. ill. Super story of this professional hunter who was considered one of the "fastest shots alive" with a double rifle. He was a buffalo hunter of renown and tackled in his time most of the other... More
London: John Murray, 1939. First. Hardcover. 308 pp, ill. VG+ copy with small stamp on front free end paper stating withdrawn from RCS library, 1931. No other markings. More
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1988. Limited Ed. First Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. The Story of Belmore Browne Hunter, Explorer, Artist, Naturalist and preserver of our northern wilderness.424 pp. Ill in b/w & color. Special forewords by Brad Washburn and John Batten. Fine copy in like original slipcase and a.... More
Clinton NJ: Amwell Press, 1981. Trade Ed. Trade Edition. Hardcover. 596 pp. Ill. Sheep hunting in N. America, the Middle East and throughout Asia. Batten's name is synonymous with sheep hunting and mountain game. Excellent reading, superior bibliography and appendix on rifles for sheep hunting. Fine in like slipcase. The... More
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1980. Allen, G, Adamson, H. First Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. 2 volumes totaling 596 pp. Profuse ill. 1,000 signed by Batten, numbered and slipcased sets. Also signed by Publisher and artist. (Allen and Jim Rikhoff, publisher.) Sheep hunting around the world by a man who... More
