Nova Scotia Canada: Hines Pro Guide, 1995. ONE. First Edition: Limited 2,000 Copies. Hardcover. Over 200 pages with color photos on almost every single page. Pictures of great trophy rooms and articles relavant to those interested in building one. Photo end papers. This is THE book that started the craze..... More
NY: Frank Walters, 1933. DeLuxe Ltd only 75 copies. 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..... More
London: Rowland Ward, 1905. First. Hardcover. 289 pp, ill. Orig. zebra endpapers. Ward's classic title on big game hunting in Asia. One of the classic Asian elephant hunting titles and one of the very few on seladang hunting. A lovely copy, original red cloth is sharp and bright, gilt is..... More
London: Rowland Ward, 1929. First. Hardcover. 232 pp, ill. Pull out rear pocket map. Two trips to Alaska for big game, especially good on sheep and bear. A fine, bright copy in the scarce vg+ dust jacket. More
Boulder Co: Sycamore Island Books, 1998. Limited Ed. First Limited to 500 Copies. Full Leather. Never has a limited ed. sold out as quickly as this book-almost as soon as it came on the market. Yes, it's that good. Great stories of hunting dangerous game hunter and able story-teller. The..... More
Calcutta and London: Thacker Spink, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Thibet, the Himalayas, and Northern India. Colonel Kinloch probably spent as much time as any sport hunter pursuing Indian big game animals. He is the author of four books on the subject of which this is the third extensive volume. 237..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1896. Whymper, C. First. Hardcover. A hunter's wanderings from Khalamba to the Limbombo. 576 pp. Ill. Author is known for his pursuit of leopard, lion & elephant. His book is one of the first to talk about the different haunts of leopards throughout Africa and the different..... More
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 now Zambia. Big five + plains game, with accounts of sport and..... More
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
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
NY: Putnams, 1925. Russell, C et al. First. Hardcover. 243 pp, ill incl. some by Charles Russell. Hunting in Montana and Wyoming (Yellowstone). Elk, grizzly bears and bighorn sheep plus one Dall sheep hunt in the Kenai. Sought after big game hunting title. Surprisingly scarce probably because of a small..... More
Philadelphia & London: Lippincott, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. 299 pp, 129 ill, pull out rear pocket maps. Foreword by FC Selous. Throughout BEA for most of that country's game. Madeira hunted with Selous and with a who's who of turn of the last century notables. Good chapter on chances and..... More
New York: Privately printed, 1930. First Edition in book form ltd to est 12 copies. Hardcover. In McClellan Mynderse and Allied Families. 163 pp, ill. Large format 10 x 13 inches. Printed on one side only. A Hunting Log covers pp 43 to 163. McClellen recounts a lengthy hunting trip..... More
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
Edinburg: Oliver & Boyd, 1957. First. Hardcover. 347 pp, ill. A vivid picture of the life of a young officer in Kenya at a time when settlers were just beginning to arrive in the country that was still inhabited by primitive tribes and wild animals. Col. Meinertzhagen servied with the..... More
Mazoe Rhodesia: Frank Read Press, 1978. Caldwell, Edmund. First Limited to 250 Copies. Gilt Stamped Imit. Morocco. Two volumes. First volume: 260 pp, ill. Limited to 250 copies, this being number 41. List of subscribers. Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick is considered one of the great stories of the..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1894. First. Hardcover. 355 pp, ill. Fold out map. Hunting from 1884 to 1888. Baily (author's real name) earned the non de plume of bula n'zau or ELEPHANT SMASHER because of his hunting prowess. This book ranks right up there with all the famous elephant hunting..... More
London: F E Robinson, 1900. First. Hardcover. being an account of two expeditions into the far interior together with a complete list of every animal and bird known to inhabit that country and a list of reptiles collected by the author. With notes on equipment needs to complete a big..... More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1881. First American. Hardcover. from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean through Unknown countries and the discovery of Great Zambesi affluents. 2 volumes: 337 & 388 pp, profuse ill, folding map frontis and pull out rear pocket map in back pocket; 388 pp, ill. Serpa Pinto headed the..... More
Buffalo NY: privately printed, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Privately printed for the author. Orig. stiff board wraps. Trip with some friends including author Daniel Streeter and Richard Goodyear to East Africa mainly for elephant. 53 pp, ill, soft covers. Tipped in map at rear showing the trail of the elephant..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. with notes of sport in the hilly districts of the northern division, madras presidency. ...indicating the best localities in those countries for sport, together with maps to guide the traveller or sportsman, and hints on weapons, etc for killing game met with..... More
Warsaw Poland: Gebethner I Wolff, 1897. Stachiewicz, P. First in Polish. Hardcover. 132 pp, ill (incl many photogravures). This is the true first edition of what was later reprinted by Rowland Ward in London as Sport in Somaliland. 15.5 x 12.25 inches. Patterned end papers on this paper. Gilt and..... More
London: Rowland Ward, 1902. First. Hardcover. Nine months journey from the plains of Hawash to the snows of Simien, with a description of the game from elephant to ibex and notes on the manners and customs of the natives. 531 pp, ill, folding map. One of the few books with..... More
London: HF&G Witherby, 1929. First. Hardcover. 320 ppp, ill. Wanderings with a rifle through Eastern Africa. Much on elephants & other big game and a long chapter on hunting in Mozambique. VG+. A great book to read, and one of the best on Mozambique. More
Clinton NJ: Amwell Press. First Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. All FOUR titles in the National Sporting Fraternity/Amwell Press' Big Five Series. All in near fine to fine condition in like slipcases. Signed numbered limited editions (though numbers are not matching). Over 1,500 pages of reading about hunting four of..... More
