Chula Vista CA: Toros Publications, 1964. First Edition. Soft cover. Ennis, C. DIARY OF A HUNT 1964 CA Privately printed. 104 pp, ill, large format. Soft covers. A two-month safari in 1958 and another long one in 1960 with noted Bill Ryan (Tanganyika and Kenya). East Africa hunting in the... More about Diary of a Hunt
London: Edward Stanford, 1902. First. Hardcover. 209 pp, 80 full page ill, pull out rear pocket map. Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and Central Africa. Buxton was one of FC Selous' favorite authors. A lovely thick book crammed full of the author's hunting for African big game. Throughout British East Africa. Czech... More about Two African Trips
London: Chapman & Hall, 1894. First. Hardcover. 103 pp, ill. Fold out map. Five months' shooting, mainly for lions, in Somaliland in the days when lions were plentiful and this was one of the best places to bag a big and big maned lion. Orig lightly soiled (as usual) gilt... More about Five Months' Sport in Somaliland
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. First. Hardcover. 286 pp, ill. Big game hunting in Portuguese East Book on this area are scarce and this is one of the better ones on this area. Eland, kudu, lion, 2 chapters on elephant, bushbuck. Photo inset front cover. VG+ in the rare... More about African Hunting Among the Thongas
Privately Printed, 1926. First. Hardcover. 315 pp, profuse illustrations. Mrs King and her husband went on a long, arduous big game hunt in East Africa in its golden days. Her privately printed book is very scarce. Special chapters on some of the big five with a lot on equipment and... More about Hunting Big Game in Africa
London: Methuen & Co, 1911. First. Hardcover. 320 pp. ill. Map. True story of travel & adventure. Autobiography of the great big game hunter who also became King of the Wa-Kikuyu African tribe. First editions of this are very scarce. VG to Vg+ (slight foxing on fore edge of text... More about John Boyes King of the Wa-Kikuyu
Nairobi, Kenya: East Africa, 1933. First. Hardcover. 260 pp. ill. Publisher ads in rear. True modern classic on elephant hunting. Sought after, deservedly so. A classic elephant hunting book that is and has always been sought after. Blunt was an elephant control officer in Tanganyika and spent his lifetime hunting... More about Elephant
London: Witherby & Co, 1924. First. Hardcover. being the diversions and difficulties of two, trekking and shooting for sustenance in dense bush. In Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), esp. in Nyasaland, They took bushbuck and waterbusk as well as other smaller game and then also stalked buffalo and elephants in the... More about The High Grass Trail
London: T Fisher Unwin, 1908. First. Orig Pictorial Cloth. and through the Back Gate of the Congo Free State. 316 pp, 44 plates, folding and text map. Blue pictorial cloth with two men and four sets of elephant tusks. Missionary explorer in Uganda who really liked to hunt, especially for... More about Tramps Around the Mountains of the Moon
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1953. First. Hardcover. The truth about animals lying in wait and hunters lying in print. 290 pp, end paper ill. A lot of down to earth basic information, presented candidly. Near fine, vg dj. More about Killers in Africa
London: Horace Cox, 1912. First. Orig Pictorial Cloth. 284 pp, ill, pub ads in rear. Deco end papers (orig). Author's ten years of hunting in northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and Nyasaland. Elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard and rhino plus sable and other plains game. Author hunted along the Zambesi River, Luangwa... More about Wild Life in Central Africa
London: Horace Cox, 1912. First. Orig gilt Pict Cloth. 115 pp, ill. Perhaps Lyell's rarest work. Covers all the game of Nyasaland with excellent descriptions of distribution and hunting and accompanied by excellent trophy photos. One of the scarcest of all Lyell books. VG+ to near fine in original gilt... More about Nyasaland for the Hunter and Settler
London: Heath Cranton, 1924. First. Hardcover. 221 pp, ill. Long hailed as one of the best books ever written on big game hunting in Africa and on elephant hunting as well. A sought after classic. A VG+ to near fine copy. More about The African Elephant and Its Hunters
London: Macmillan & Co, 1912. First Ed. Hardcover. 324 pp, ill. One of the great elephant hunting classics. Sutherland was one of the greatest elephant hunters and his book has been in demand for almost 100 years. This is a splendid first edition. Great item for any collector. VG+ condition... More about The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter
London: Putnams, 1935. First in English. Hardcover. 208 pp, ill, text map. Elephant and other big game hunting in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Also bongo, lion and kudu. An enjoyable book, finally getting the recognition it deserves as one of the enduring worthwhile books on the subject. Lovely solid VG+... More about The Land of Elephants
London: Putnam, 1935. First in English. Hardcover. 208 pp, ill, text map. Elephant and other big game hunting in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Also bongo and kudu. An enjoyable book, finally getting the recognition it deserves as one of the enduring worthwhile books on the subject. Near fine in orig. cloth. More about The Land of Elephants
London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. 310 pp, ill, map end papers. Irresistible attraction of hunting this dangerous game animal in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa. Much on Lake Rukwa and the Kafue Flats areas in Zambia. Incl. something on other game encountered along the way... More about Buffalo The Lone trail of a Big Game Hunter
NY: William Morrow, 1931. First American. Hardcover. The Early life and Adventures of S S Broomfield Ivory Hunter, Prospector and Doctor of Medicine. 1931 NY 310 pp, ill. The first half of the book is entirely on adventures in East Africa with lots of big game hunting. Balance is in... More about Kachalola, or Mighty Hunter
Boston: Doubleday Page, 1909. First. Hardcover. 402 pp., 64 ill. Pictorial cover & spine. Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, Taveta Forest and more. Travel and stories of dangerous and horned game. Near fine to fine in the rare RARE dust jacket. More about In Wildest Africa
Indianapolis IN: Bobbs Merrill, 1910. Limited Ed - 250 Copies. Vellum Over Boards. Adventures in big game hunting country. 402 pp. Profuse ill. Author was a noted cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune who got the chance to go to Africa with Carl Akeley. He had a wonderful safari and wrote... More about In Africa
London: The Bodley Head, 1908. First. Hardcover. 276 pp. Ill. Throughout eastern Africa. Comments on game on a species by species basis. A book often recommended by Roosevelt in his Life Histories works. Dickinson was the British Commissioner for British East Africa. One of the new titles recommended by President... More about Big Game Shooting on the Equator
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1925. First. Hardcover. 242 pp, 174 ill. Maps. Worldwide big game hunting by a man with more narrow escapes than most. Interesting reading. Good photos esp of elephant and buffalo. Excellent chapters on the African big five. Orig. pictorial cover of elephant charging a.... More about Big Game and Big Life
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931. First. Hardcover. 281 pp, ill. Through African government red tape and jungles as the Johnsons manage to penetrate Central Africa during their final two-year and most exciting years in Africa. Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Belgian Congo. VG+ in vg dj. More about Congorilla
United Kingdom: Henry Henley, 2002. First Limted to 500 Copies. Hardcover. 187 Plus 141 pages, profuse ill. Limited ed ONLY 500 copies. Numbered, signed by Henry Henley (author's son). 7x10 inch format. Henley was one of the longest practicing professional hunters in Africa. His first book, Round the Campfire was... More about Round the Campfire and Hunting and Wildlife in Botswana
Johannesburg, South Africa: SJS&A, 1992. First. Hardcover. 274 pp, ill. The ramblings of an incredibly popular, accomplished and entertaining African hunter are here recounted with humor and vigor. "Uncle Steve" as the author was known to most hunters, had a charm that infused everything he did. His unfortunate premature death... More about The Hunter and the Go-Away Bird
