Selling the Bear's Hide and Other Tales
NY: The Nassau Press, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. 1902 NY. 131 pp. A scarce book of outdoor stories containing one story on bear hunting, one on fishing, and other outdoor tales. VG+. More
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The Indian Field Shikar Book
Calcutta India: The Indian Field, 1904. Second Impression. Hardcover. Burke, W. THE INDIAN FIELD SHIKAR BOOK 1904 Second Impression. Calcutta 331 pp + big game register in rear. Covers all the game of the Indian mountains and plains with records of trophies taken. Most of these records are not in..... More
Catalogue of Hunting Trophies
1981. First Edition. Soft cover. Botev, N, et al CATALOGUE OF HUNTING TROPHIES at the World Exhibition of Hunting. 1981 Sofia. 3 soft covered volumes: 336 pp, ill; 383 pp, ill; and 108 pp. ill. Lists very game animal exhibited and gives measurement for what then were the best specimens..... More
Takes at the Outspan
London: Saunders, Otley and Co, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. or Aventures in the Wild Regions of Southern Africa. 1865 London 359 pp, Ill. Marbled edges. An outspan is a place for a wagon train to pause for a day and let trailblazers go ahead to find a path forward. In..... More
Sporting Scenes Amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa
London: G Routledge, 1858. Weir, Harrison. First Edition. Hardcover. 1858 London 327 pp. Frontis & 7 col. plates by Wolf. Early work on South African hunting, incl. elephant hunting, leopard plus plains game. This is one of the earlier works both on sport hunting as well as on dangerous game..... More
First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling
London: Horace Cox, 1896. Champan, A and Whymper, C. First Edition. Hardcover. 1896 London 269 pp, 25 ill by author and 3 by Whymper. Publisher's ads in front and rear. Fold out frontis. Shooting by day and night, under canvas and afloat, at home and abroad and in all seasons..... More
On Safari
Camden SC: Briar Patch Press, 1988. Trade Ed. Reprint. Hardcover. Hunting in British East Africa.336 pp, ill. Throughout equatorial Africa, the Athi Plains, Baringo and Mau forests. A consistently sought after book both in original edition and in this, a fine reprint edition. Much on elephant and lion hunting. A...... More
In the Grip of the Nyika
New York: Macmillan, 1910. 1st Ed 2nd Prtg. First Ed, Second Printing. Hardcover. 389 pp, ill. From the author of Man-eaters of Tsavo it is again back to Tsavo for more big game hunting adventures with man-eating lions and other game. Great reading. A really nice, fine copy in orig..... More
Death and Double Rifles
Phoenix AZ: Nitro Express Safaris, 2000. First Trade. Hardcover. 295 pp, ill incl fabulous color photos. The remarkable story of a filmmaker who turned professional hunter and how he came to hunt dangerous game for a living. Adventure awaits all who open the pages of this book. The African big..... More
Hunting the African Lion
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1989. Coheleach, Guy. First - Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. 557 pp, ill. This is the 26th title in the African hunting heritage series and the third title in the big five series. Arguably one of the best anthologies compiled on hunting lions, the King of..... More
Death in a Lonely Land, Death in the Dark Continent, The African Adventurers, Peter Capstick's Africa, Sands of Silence, Death in the Silent Places
New York: St Martin's Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Capstick, Peter SIX of his books: Death in a Lonely Land 1st ed fine in dj; Death in the Dark Continent 1st ed, 6th prtg, fine in dj; The African Adventurers 1st ed 4th prtg fine in dj; Peter Capstick's Africa 1st..... More
The Hunting Time
Wisconsin: St Hubert's Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Adventures in Pursuit of North American Big Game, a Forty-Year Chronicle. 2002 WI 536 pp. Ill. w/line drawings. Deer, sheep, moose, and more in the western US, Alaska, and Canada. From the first beginnings as a deer hunter to later hunts for..... More
Home from the Hill
New York: St Martins Press, 1987. First American. Hardcover. Hook, H. HOME FROM THE HILL 1987 NY 1st US Ed. Adventures in distant lands including hunting big game in Kashmir & pig and other game throughout India when he was staioned there. Then he went as a naturalist to northern..... More
Three Tickets to Timbuktu
New York: G P Putnam's, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Linker, H. THREE TICKETS TO TIMBUKTU The Global Adventures of America's most famous travelling family. 1966 NY 307 pp. Ill. For 10 seasons on US tv, their episodes were records. The visited 115 countries including Mozambie, Ehtiopia and the Amazon. They..... More
Camera Shots at Big Game
New York: Doubleday Page, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. NY Intro. by Theodore Roosevelt. 77 pp. + profuse full page photos. US big game in picture and print. Near fine copy in orig. pictorial and gilt cloth. More
Asia A Natural Hitory
NY: Random House, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. color & b/w ill. 298 pp. Asian specialist for Paris Natural History Museum writes a vivid general work on Asia and her natural history. Much on game. Fine in near fine dj. Large, heavy book. Extra postage. More
Europe A Natural History
New York: Random House, 1964. First. Hardcover. 300 pp, 264 ill in color & b/w. End paper maps. Part of the Continent We Live on Series. Natural history of all European countries with something on all the game animals in each country. Informative reading. Fine in vg dj. Large format..... More
Australia and the Pacific Islands
New York: Random House, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Keast, A. AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC ISLANDS 1968 NY 298 pp. Ill. in color & b/w. Large format. Part of the Continents We Live On series. Excellent text and photos of game and the country. Good book for artists, taxidermists, and people..... More
The Grand Slam of North American Wild Sheep
Phoenix AZ: The Grand Slam Club, 1974. First Edition - second Printing. Hardcover. 220 pp., ill. Ten grand slammers tell their stories of hunts for Dall, Stone, Bighorn and Desert sheep. In all 40 North American sheep hunts. Plus one Asian sheep hunting story from Chris Klineburger. Super reading. Long..... More
Burma Painted & Described
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1912. Hardcover. 258 pp, ill, plus index. Journeying through forests and other jungle conditions that are unkind to explorers, especially painters, the author managed to "rightly appraise a strange people and a strange land." Anyone interested in Burma would enjoy this book. VG in original..... More
Through Wildest Africa
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Holmes, F.R. THROUGH WILDEST AFRICA, A Story of Travel. 1925 London 316 pp, ill.Front endpaper map. Index. South and east of Kilimanjaro. A photographic safari through Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika. He did hunt wildebeest, buffalo and rhino near Lake Natron. VG in orig..... More
Notes on the Mountain Sheep of North America
NY: New York Zoological Society, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. with a description of a new species. Pp 76-125 incl color ill of a Fannin sheep. As published in the Fifth Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society 1901. Classic article on the species of North American wild sheep. Complete..... More
The History of a Slave
London: Kegan Paul, 1889. First. Hardcover. 168 pp, 47 full page ill copied from author's engravings. Based on Johnston's experiences with and knowledge of the Fula people. VG condition in orig. binding which is a front paper covered board over a cloth spine and rear. Some wear showing through board..... More
Sketches of Indian Field Sports
Devon: Privately printed for the author by Longman Hurst, 1822. First Edition. Hardcover. Johnson, D. SKETCHES OF INDIAN FIELD SPORTS 1827 London FIRST ed. Published privately for the author. 259 pp. Engraved frontis. Marbled endpapers. Includes the tipped in description of the frontis often found lacking in some copies. One..... More
Out of Africa
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. 399 pp, all edges gilt. A handsome full gilt leatherbound reprint with raised spine bands, etc. A perennially popular book and this is a good value, handsome reprint edition. As new. More