London: Horace Cox, 1910. First. Hardcover. Sport and travel in Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa and also notes on the game animals and their distribution. 118 pp, profuse ill. Exciting hunting trips in what was then northern Rhodesia. Big five + plains game. Near fine in original green simulated crocodile..... More
Dallas TX: Coolectors Covey, 2015. First Trade. Hardcover. Anderson, Robert WIND, DUST, and SNOW II 2015 CA 284 pp, hundreds of color ill. Chapters about the glory years of Asian sheep hunting, especially for Marco Polo, other walks on the wild side, an in depth look at Elgin Gates and..... More
Philadelphia PA and Boston MA: Hubbard Bros, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Livingstone, D. Livingstone's Africa. Perilous adventures and extensive discoveries in the interior of African from the personal narrative of David Livingstone together with The remarkable success and important results of the Herald-Stanley Expedition as furnished by H M Stanley..... More
London: Macmillan, 1911. Caldwell, E. Hardcover. 356 pp, ill. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Top edges gilt. A great African big game hunting book and especially good on lions and lion hunting. One of the few books that Roosevelt took time out to write a foreword during his presidency. A classic..... More
NY: Rand McNally, 1957. First American. Hardcover. 188 pp, ill. Meissner was a prolific purveyor of elpehant meat and big tusks. Excellent recent work on hunting in French equatorial Africa. Good photographs. VG+ in vg dj. More
NY: William Morrow, 1938. First. Hardcover. An account of a Darfur Journey. 352 pp, ill. Author and his partners together with their noted professional hunter bagged fourteen lions and nineteen leopards on this one incredible safari. Fine copy in VG+ dj. Jackets on this are scarce, as is the book..... More
London: HF&G Witherby, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 196 pp. Ill. Critical moments in the lives of well known hunters by the author of a well known sporting magazine. Excerpts from the writings of Pitman, Percival, Etherton, Kennion etc. Author is an ardent hunter and a competent writer. Lacks front free..... More
Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Richard Francis Burton in Africa. 1910 VA 302 pp. ill. Genius, hero, misfit, egomaniac, madman, bigot, revolutionary, misanthrope, gypsy - and explorer. All have been used to describe thia great African adventurer - a man who risked uncertain paths into the unknown..... More
New York: Horizon Press, 1962. Reprint. Hardcover. Two volume reprint, Total 569 pp, ill.End paper maps. Popular set of reprints on Baker's classic on travel, exploration and hunting around the great basin of the Nile. Books near fine in vg+ jackets. And in orig. box which is vg+... More
London: H F & G Witherby, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A record of travel and sport in Abyssinia, now Ethiopia. 244 pp, ill. Just about the only good book we have found on hunting the Walia ibex and with some hunting also for the elusive Mountain nyala. This is Maydon's..... More
London: Smith Elder, 1876. First. Hardcover. A sporting tour of some officers on the guards in the Soudan during the winter of 1874-5. 355 pp, ill with ORIGINAL PHOTOS by Rowland Ward, Two year hunting tour of the Sudan with the Hamran Arab guides who were renowned elephant hunters. A...... More
Bulawayo Zimbabwe: Books of Zimbabwe, 1994. Hardcover. 221 pp, ill. Long hailed as one of the best books written on hunting the African elephant, (as well as hunting other game) this limited ed. reprint was also an immediate sellout. Deluxe edition. Fully bound in buffalo hide, raised spine bands, contrasting..... More
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe: Books of Zimbabwe, 1987. Reprint 1987. Full Leather. Sport and Travel in the Kalahari Desert. 359 pp. ill. Large fold out map in rear and several smaller fold out maps throughout the text. A really nice reprint. Vol 7 in the African Hunting reprint series from Books of..... More
Zimbabwe: Books of Zimbabwe, 1980. Reprint full leather binding. Hardcover. with notices of the native tribes, and anecdotes of the chase of the lion, elephant, hippopotamus, giraffe, rhinoceros etc. 381 & 388 pp, ill, map. Top edges gilt. Cumming went to the South African interior for hunting and discovered vast..... More
Namibia: Privately printed, 2018. First English. Hardcover. On the trail of the old elephant bulls. 652 pp, profuse color ill. It is said that the elephant embodies the spirit of the African wilderness, that no tract of country is truly wild if there are no elephants in it. Kai-Uwe Denker..... More
British Columbia: Privately printed by the author, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Over 40 years of guiding, outfitting and hunting. 2011 British Columbia. Privately printed for the author. Large format. 636 pp, ill. Printed on extra heavy glossy paper. All edges gilt. The long time noted, respected, accomplished sheep hunting guide..... More
Connecticut: Privately printed, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. .including insights into cartridges, rifles and safari planning. 1998 CT Privately printed for the author. Stories of professional hunters like Barrie Duckworth, Roger Whittall, and more. Matunas wrote over 700 magazine articles and 13 books. This is one of his best. As new..... More
Lyon, MS: Derrydale Press, 1988. Deluxe Edition: 500 Copies. Leather. 220 pp, ill. Story of Walter (Wally) Johnson, elephant hunter extraordinaire and perhaps one of the last great ivory hunters. This is the special very limited edition, (only 500 copies) bound in FULL elephant hide leather, all edges gilt and..... More
CA: Privately Printed, 1958. First - Limited Ed. Orig Patterned Cloth. 117 pp. ill. End paper maps. Orig. imit, leopard patterned cloth. Northern and central provinces of what is now Tanzania. Through Tanganyika Tours & Safaris author hunted with George Dove as PH. Scarce. Fine. Signed and numbered by the..... More
NY: Prentice-Hall, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 287 pp, ill. Worldwide big game hunting. Foss for polar bear, Fitz for moose, Gates for Marco Polo sheep, Africa, Asia, N America. Near fine in like dj. More
NY: St Martins Press, 1987. Capstick Reprint Series. Hardcover. 291 pp, ill. Considered by some to be one of the finest titles ever published on the subject. Describes lion history and lion hunting in fresh & lucid prose. One of the African big game hunting books in the Capstick reprint..... More
NY: Coward McCann, 1963. First American. Hardcover. 206 pp, ill. Adventure-packed account of life among the big game animals of Africa by an old time professional hunter whose wealth of spellbinding experiences provides great reading. Former owner printed bookplate inside front cover. Near fine in like dj. More
No place given: Privately printed for the author, 1953. First Edition. Soft cover. Brock, O.C. THE BROCK SAFARI 1950 and the Brock Shakari of 1952. 12 pp, ill, soft printed covers. 1953. Lengthy safari through Kenya and Somalia buffalo, lion, kudu & antelope. Lots of photos, not much text. Privately..... More
Caldwell Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1969. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. 343 pp, profuse ill. 20 years with Hemingway in Northern Idaho and Montana. Second printing of first trade ed, A lovely production. Large format, heavy book showing Hemingway doing all of the great outdoor things, because "best of all, he loved..... More
Columbus OH: Privately printed by the author, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Woodcock, E. (A.R. Harding Editor) FIFTY YEARS A HUNTER AND TRAPPER experiences and observations of E.N. Woodcock, the noted hunter and trapper, as written by himself and published from 1903-1913. 1913 Ohio. 320 pp, ill. Mainly in his home..... More
