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[London: privately printed, ca.1916]. Only edition. WITH 2 ORIGINAL PHOTOS. A trip starting in March, 1914 from Charing Cross to Egypt, Sinai, Akaba, Kerak, Bethlehem and Jerusalem. The author and his friend Hensman spent 5 weeks of travel crossing 400 miles on camel and 700 miles on horseback. Read More about Diary of a Journey through the Sinai Peninsula and Arabia in 1914
Price: $400
Bologna: Tichnor, Reed & Field, 1850. Preface dated November, 1849 Fourth in the series of The Boston Book, preceded by similar anthologies of 1835, 1837, and 1841. This anthology, edited by Fields, contains contributions by Holmes, Hawthorne, Lowell, Whittier, Longfellow, Emerson, and others; many of the contributions are first appearances in print. Read More about The Boston Book being Specimens of Metroploitan Literature
Price: $250
London: August 4, 1865. On a Tralfagar Square Lion. After thanking Mrs. Bruce for sending certain photographs, Landseer reports, "At this present time I am engaged on Lion No 2. I am modelling a new head– as they are not to be all alike in expression of countenance...." In 1857... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("E Landseer"), to Mrs. Bruce, regarding Lion No 2
Price: $250
[n.p: Privately Printed, 1961]. First edition. On Safari with Jimmy Stewart Full leopard-skin pattern book cloth. "Mrs. Johnson and her husband, along with noted movie actor Jimmy Stewart and his wife, went on safari to Kenya and Tanzania where elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard, oryx and other game were bagged" (Czech)... Read More about Safari Diary, Africa 1961
Price: $250
London: Rowland Ward, 1912. First edition, second issue without the map. "A rather scarce Rowland Ward publication, the first issue was published with a map and map pocket, while the second issue apparently lacked both. This work details the author's 1910-11 expedition on which he bagged gazelle, leopard and hippopotamus... Read More about Sport in the Eastern Sudan from Souakin to the Blue Nile
Price: $600
Norwalk , Conn: The Easton Press, 1992. Clector Edition, Signed by Le Guin, with signed COA. Masterpiece's of Science Fiction Collector's Notes included. Read More about The Left Hand of Darkness. Preface by Joan D. Vinge
Price: $275
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1881. Later edition. Read More about A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa. Being a Narrative of Nine Years spent amongst the Game of the...
Price: $400
New York: Macmillan, 1927. This first American edition is enlarged from the original UK edition of 1907, with some variation in the illustrations. American Edition, in Dust Jacket. "One of the most famous of all African hunting titles" (Czech). Czech, Africa, pp. 213-214. Read More about The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and other East African Adventures. With a Foreword by Frederick Courteney...
Price: $150
circa 1913. Photograph album compiled by Portuguese Comendador Manuel Nunes Correa as a recuerdo (souvenir) to Mr. & Mrs. Garrett (?). The photographs record an African hunting from in 1912 and 1913, showing the various camps, companions, scenery, and their quarry, including lion, haartebeest, hippopotamus, eland. Nunes Correa's captions in... Read More about Across Africa West to East, from Benguella to Brina [Manuscript Cover title] PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
Price: $850
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. First edition. SIGNED BY LOVELL. Signed by Lovell on the title-page. Read More about Lost Moon. The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
Price: $150
Boston: Hoiughton Mifflin, 1894. Vedder, Elihu. First 8vo edition (preceded by Folio Vedder edition). Read More about Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam The Astronomer-Poet of Persia Rendered into English Verse by Edward...
Price: $200
London: Henry Sotheran, 1895. Millais, Sir J.E. First edition. ‘a classic of the shooting world’. “Never before, or elsewhere, have the winged and furred creatures of the wild lived in their lithe beauty and fantastic grace as in these delicate drawings” -- contemporary comment from the Telegraph, cited in Mendelssohn "Highlighted..... Read More about A Breath from the Veldt
Price: $900
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1929. First Edition. IN DUST JACKET. "Lyell provide [sic] rules for hunting big game, as well as chapters dealing with rifle selection and tracking game. The remainder of the text examines the natural history, traits and methods of hunting, species by species. The illustrations... Read More about The Hunting & Spoor of Central African Game
Price: $750
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1929. First Edition. IN DUST JACKET. "Lyell provide [sic] rules for hunting big game, as well as chapters dealing with rifle selection and tracking game. The remainder of the text examines the natural history, traits and methods of hunting, species by species. The illustrations... Read More about The Hunting & Spoor of Central African Game
Price: $900
Chicago: Privately Printed, [1929]. First edition. This copy inscribed on the first blank "With the compliments of the Author Christmas, 1929." This book is rare, we have not seen another copy "Cameron delivered an address relating his African experiences to the Executives' Club of Chicago in March, 1929, then apparently had... Read More about From Cape Town to the Belgian Congo. From an address delivered before The Executives Club of...
Price: $300
London: Edward Arnold, 1907. First edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed by the author to R. Schwerdt , famed sporting book collector C.F.G.R. Schwerdt. "Bulpett was a member of W. N. McMillan's expedition through the Sudan and into Abyssinia. The party headed toward the Sobat River, collecting giraffe, tiang and a variety of..... Read More about A Picnic Party in Wildest Africa. Being a sketch of a winter's trip to some of the unknown waters...
Price: $325
[Memphis, Tennessee: privately printed, 1947]. First edition. Warmly inscribed to the author's cousins on the title-page: "Safari Greetings / to / Marie and Lucien Beckner / My charming Kentucky cousins. / With sincere admiration. / Virginia Field Walton Brooks / Epping Forest Manor / Memphis, Tenn. / Aug. 15, 1950" Read More about Screed of Safari Scribe
Price: $300
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. "The author Joyce Boyd-Moss and her husband George farmed in Tanganyika, and she recounts adventures, hartebeest and zebra [sic]. Elephants were also collected, as were additional leopards and lions that preyed on the couple's dairy herd. There is also a good... Read More about My Farm in Lion Country
Price: $200
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and New York: E. & J. B. Young & Co, [ca. 1879]. Second edition, with new preface. Read More about Alone Among the Zulus. The Narrative of a Journey through the Zulu Country, South Africa
Price: $150
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, [1985]. Limited edition, one of 1,000 copies out of series (unnumbered), signed by the author. A Texan in Africa. Read More about An African Affair
Price: $100
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, [1985]. Limited edition, no. 695 of 1,000 copies, signed by the author and publisher. Autobiogtraphy of this famous white hunter's life from 1947 to 1967. The second part. Read More about Second Wheel. [A White Hunter's Diary 1947-67 Or "From Hero to Cad in a Few Decades"
Price: $150
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, [1983]. Limited edition, no. 695 of 1,000 copies, signed by the author. Read More about First Wheel
Price: $150
Clinton NJ: Amwell Press, 1984. First Edition, No 278 of 1000 copies, signed by Ada and Laddy Wincza and Jim Rikhoff. Read More about Bush and Plains
Price: $125
Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, [1981]. Limited edition, no. 695 of 1,000 copies, signed by the author and Publisher, Jim Rikhoff. Fifth title in the African Hunting Heritage Series. Read More about Ivory
Price: $225
London: Smith, Elder & Co. 15 Waterloo Place, 1876. The Hamran Arabs were prodigious hunters of big game, including elephant. Myers comments extensively on their way of life. The mounted plates of trophies are taken from photographs by Rowland Ward. Read More about Life with the Hamran Arabs. An Account of a Sporting Tour of Some Officers of the Guards in the...
Price: $800