Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is Volume Ten is Safari Press's Classics in African Hunting Series, and the fourth volume in Safari Press's African Country Series. 432 pages. Here is copy #212 OF A LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF ONLY 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE EDITOR AND THE ILLUSTRATOR. IT IS BOUND IN MAROON AND BLACK CLOTH WITH GOLD STAMPING AND A SILK MARKING RIBBON. IT IS HOUSED IN A STURDY MAROON CLOTH COVERED SLIPCASE. This book contains original stories by virtually all the Professional Hunters that operate in Botswana today: Sten Cedergren, Chris Collins, Joe Coogan, Don Cowie, Willem Engelbrecht, Paul Finch-Smiles, Ronald Kays, Soren Lindstrom, Lionel Palmer, Gail Selby, Harry Selby, and many more. In addition, there are contributions by Craig Boddington, Steve Christenson, Fred Duckworth, Ken Elliott, and Brian Marsh, as well as early stories from rare and hard-to-find titles and long out-of-print volumes: Thomas St. Quinton, Arnold Wienholt, and Cronje Wilmot. This is the most comprehensive collection of stories ever assembled on Botswana! As with the previous volumes, the book contains a bibliography as well as a biographical sketch on each contributor. Original artwork by Dino Paravano. VERY SCARCE AND HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER. Both the Book and the Slipcase are in Fine condition with only the very lightest use. Here is an opportunity to own a very nice copy of a hard-to-find title at a reasonable price. Signed by Author.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This is Volume Eight in Safari Press's Classics in African Hunting Series, and the second volume in Safari Press's African Country Series. 387 pages. #299 OF A LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF ONLY 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE EDITOR AND THE ILLUSTRATOR. IT IS BOUND IN GREEN AND BLACK CLOTH WITH GOLD STAMPING AND A SILK MARKING RIBBON. IT IS HOUSED IN A STURDY GREEN CLOTH COVERED SLIPCASE. Zimbabwe is possibly Africa's most popular current safari destination and one of the few countries where the entire Big Four can be hunted. This book chronicles the earliest hunter/pioneers who were attracted to Zimbabwe for gold and ivory up to the modern safari hunter who comes for leopard, buffalo, and elephant. Authors include Captain John Brandt, William Brown, John Burger, Frederick Burnham, John Catsis, Lord Charles Coyngham, P.H. Combe, Marcus Daly, William Finaughty, H. Hemans, Conyers Lang, William Marsden, John Millais, Thomas Morgan, Frederick Selous, Major P.M. Stewart, Robert Sutherland, Edward Tabler, John Taylor, Derek Temple, Gene Wortham, and Allan Wright. Entirely original stories for this book are by Craig Boddington, Terry Cacek, Sten Cedergren, Peter H. Capstick, Fred Duckworth, Jerry Lewis, Jack Lott, Brian Marsh, Dave Prizio, Todd Smith, Tom Turpin, and Jim Woods. Original artwork by Larry Norton. VERY SCARCE AND HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER. The Book and the Slipcase are in Fine condition. The current market value of this rare volume is about $1,500. Here is an opportunity to own a beautiful copy of this hard-to-find title at a very reasonable price. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. Signed by Author.
Seller: Callahan and Company Booksellers, Peterborough, NH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good in very good slipcas. Illustrated with drawings and a color frontispiece by Bob Kuhn. 5.75" x 8.5". 252 pp. Decorated ivory bonded leather, very light foxing on the edges of the text block. A book on elephants and elephant hunting, by a professional hunter. ".recounts the stories of famous elephant hunters of old, how the habitat has changed, and relates several of his own hunting experiences" (Czech). Very good in very good slipcase.
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Add to basket1st Edn,. 487 pages, 4to illustrated with drawings and colour plates by Elise Van Der Heijden with pictorial end papers. Bound in blue cloth with antelope head in black and gilt title within gilt and black ruled frames. Pencil notes to the front-end ership bookplapaper blank margin detailing the owners hunting bag in Zambia in 1998 including buffalo, leopard, Impala, buck etc with hunting notes to blank margins of 3 pages. A fine copy in slipcase. Limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by the editor and illustrator. 12th in the classics in African hunting series and one of eight in the African country series by Sanchez. Hunting throughout Zambia from early noted hunters to more recently and current ones. Also, author biographies and a bibliography. Czech 245.
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Add to basket1st Edn,. 387 pages, 4to., illustrated with drawings and paintings by Larry Norton with pictorial end papers. Publishers pictorial green cloth with lion head to upper cover in black with gilt title in gilt ruled borders, fine in slipcase. Vol II in the African Series, a collection of stories by various authors includes a short biography of each author. Limited to 1000 copies, signed and numbered by Arino Tony Sanchez and Larry Norton, also a personal inscription on title page to Roger Mitchell, signed and dated by Sanchez. Czech 244.