Arthur Strachan (25 results)

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Condition: Good. Early reprint (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), xi, 279pp, 5pp adverts. 8pp b&w plates. Original cream-coloured cloth. There is some light spotting to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block, and a bookplate to the front pastedown; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

Condition: Good. No DJ. Boards have little wear but spine is faded and spine writing is a bit hard to read. Gift inscription to endpaper. 1 plate is a bit torn to edge. Contents are clean but lightly toned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. BOUND IM CLEAN CREAM COLOURED CLOTH WITH CLEAR TITLES TO SPINE, THIS DATED 1935 HARDCOVER REPRINT IS VG. X1/279pp WITH 10 PHOTOS, PREFACE, FOREWORD BY LORD HARDINGE OF PENSHURST AND 20 CHAPTERS. CLEAN ENDPAPERS, SOUND TIGHTBINDING AND ALL VG.

Hardcover. First Edition. 2 volume set. Usual library stamps and markings. Spine, corners bumped. Volume 1 - front hinge weak. Vol 1 - 914 pp. Vol 2 - 375 pp. Index. Very heavy set. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Nicolson, W.C.; Tresilian, S.; Holloway, Cyril (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 221-286 plus 14 pages of ads. Features: Man-Eaters - Indian tigers; The Lost Secret - a lost mine near Visalia, California; The Merepur Mystery - Indian official is an amateur Sherlock Holmes; On the Mexican Border; A Winter Jaunt in Finland - with photos, including woman washing clothes in hole cut in ice; The "Stroaper's" Vengeance - while prospecting for gold in Dutch Guiana; The Tale of "Old Bill" - a famous elephant of Ceylon; The Hunting of "Wild Johnny" - a renegade Australian aborigine; The Diamond Smuggler; Crossed Trails - a tale of fate from the Santa Cruz mountains; The Prize-Fight; The Great Green Eel - three-day ordeal landing a 13.5 foot specimen!; "Fisherman's Luck" - angler's disaster off New Zealand when the launch Manaia is wrecked. Heavily worn. Covers detached but present. A worthy reading copy.

Stapled Wraps. First Edition, First Printing. Unpaginated. [Uniformly printed with 14 pages]. Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Richly illustrated throughout, including with advertisements by sponsoring organizations and firms whose views aligned with the aims of the MCARA. Our offering comprises of four non-consecutive issues of this scarce student-produced journal active between the years 1992-1993 constituting the following issues: Vol. 1, No 1: Jan - Feb, 1992; Vol. 1, No. 2: Mar - Apr, 1992; Vol. 1, No. 3: July - Aug, 1992; Vol. 2, No. 2: Feb - May, 1993. Includes rich commentary, and discussion of South Africa's apartheid regime, racism faced by Indigenous Peoples, and People of Colour in Canada and abroad, a list of suggested readings, the OKA crisis, women's issues, crimes committed in Central and Latin America, the ANC Women's League, Nelson Mandela, the Rivonia Trials, Malcolm X, white supremacy, critical race theory, and much else. All issues entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages. Exceedingly rare in commerce. We note only one institutional holding of this newsletter (See LAC/BAC Aurora Reference #1082209260). Near fine. Not in Peel, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections. Rare indeed. "Amandla! is produced by volunteer labour, and is published bi-monthly by the Manitoba Coalition Against Racism and Apartheid, Inc., (formerly Manitoba Coalition of Organizations Against Apartheid)"."Amandla means "Power!" and is regularly heard at rallies and other public meetings in South Africa. The cry is then followed by the thundering response "Ngawethu" meaning "to the people". Power to the people the world over to build free, unitary, democratic, non-racial societies".

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Complete with All Plates. Dust wrapper with edge and corner wear, tears and a little loss to top/bottom and spine edges. Rubbing, discoloured spine, fading. Top, Tail and Fore edges with light spotting, mark on Top edge corner. Endpapers with a little discolouration, light ghost pencil marks on fep. Internally - Some pages with light foxing type marks/patches, A touch of age-tanning to edge of pages. For a Book of this Age a Good personal copy in tight binding. Unclipped dust wrapper will be fitted with removable archive acetate film. **730g** All orders are sent with a tracking /signature service for your peace of mind, so that you can keep tabs on your parcel. For overseas customers - on some sites we use, parcels weighing over the standard rate may incur an additional charge and we will then contact you with the additional shipping fee required. This is for the postage only we do not charge you for our time or our excellent packaging, which we are noted for. Dispatched in cardboard mailers within 24/48 Hours Mon - Friday 2pm, except bank holidays, otherwise next business day - excellent service guaranteed. AANBE14588.

Thick 8vo. xi, [1], 279, [1] pp., plus 4 pp. publisher's ads. Tipped-in colour frontisp., 7 tipped-in colour plates all mounted on thick black paper, numerous photo plates. Red publisher's cloth, white lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, minor rubbing to lettering, minor soiling, slightly cocked), w/ d.j. printed on thick orange paper stock (edgewear, creasing, dustsoiling, couple minor closed tears), still VG-/VG- copy. First edition of this gripping memoir of how a tea planter in India, became a noted hunter of man-eating tigers after being mauled and losing a right arm and left leg below the knee while managing a tea plantation for Finlay, Muir & Cowas in Goombira. He lost his job with the company, and subsequently became a tiger hunter and artist. See: Mr. Strachan: Tea Estates and Tiger Attacks, Scottish Business Archive, University of Glasgow Archive Services, Working Archive (June 10, 2013).

1st Edition. Hb in Dw xi,279pp Coloured frontisplate + 6 coloured plates to text + 9 mono illustrations SIGNED and Dedicated by The Author to fep Dw Chipped and repaired Thus A Vg/ Good+ Copy in the Uncommon Illustrated Dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, with a foreword by Lord Hardinge of Penshurst- himself a seasoned tiger hunter. Illustrated in color from miniature paintings on ivory by the author after loss of his arm in a tiger attack. Each of the eight color paintings of the jungle animals (tigers and leopards) are laid in on a thick black mat. Black and white photographs also present. Maroon cloth with gilted spine, 279 pages + publisher's adverts. A Very Good Book, extremely scarce Signed by the author & with mounted color plates. A rare addition for those who collects vintage books on shikar and tiger hunting. See images.

First Edition. Descriptions with illustrations of tiger hunting, including his final encounter in which he lost and arm and a leg. , with 8 colour plates . Some foxing and slight lean . Inscription to fep otherwise a Good copy in a Good jacket which has some loss to spine ends. Scarce in jacket.

1st Edn,. 1st Edn, xi 279 pages, 4 pages advs, illus including 8 in colour from miniatures by the author mounted on black card. Publisher's cloth, titles in white. A vg copy seldom found in vg condition. The author hunted numerous tigers in Assam both on foot and machansi, also leopard, wild boar, bear etc. On one occasion trailing a wounded tiger only to be charged and mauled by the tiger, though he succeeded in killing the tiger he had extensive injuries causing his and arm to be amputated. Czech 206.