Strachan Arthur W (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Natraj Publishers, 2008. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good with spotting to page ends. Dust jacket is very good with shelf wear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Published by Natraj Publishers, 2008. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new with small price sticker on back cover. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

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: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. This is a Fine Copy of this book in a Fine Dust-Jacket.Not price clipped.The binding of the book is nice and tight with NO hinge weakness.There are NO previous names or inscriptions present.Illustrated in colour from miniature paintings on Ivory from the Author.This title was acquired from a hugely impressive library of books on Big Game Hunting and shooting in the UK Asia,The Far East,America,Canada,Africa and New Zealand.8vo First Thus [2008].…

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.…

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.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. 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. Nicolson, W.C.; Tresilian, S.; Holloway, Cyril (illustrator).…

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. …