ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1931). 1931 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 224mm). Ppx,290,ads. No illustrated. Blind-stamped ruled border to brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. Cloth slightly faded, slight foxing to end-papers else very good. Lacks dust-wrapper. An interesting anthology of magazine articles and excerpts from books. Claimed to be the first big game anthology in English. Stories of hunting a wide variety of quarry species, mainly in Africa and Asia but also Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the Arctic. The contents are arranged first by continent, and then by quarry: Africa - elephants, lions, lepards, cheetah, hyaena, dogs, jackals, crocodiles, buffalo, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, giraffes, extinct, gemsbuck, oryx, wildebeest, impala, springbuck, waterbuck, eland, inyala, kudu, rietbuck, ostrich. Asia - elephants, tigers, boars, panthers, leopards, bears, buffalo, bison, rhinoceros, samburs, stags, spotted deer, cheetal, ovis ammon, ovis poli, nilgiri wild goat, hyaena. Europe, the Arctic, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, various. These latter countries contribute; elk (moose), chamois, ibex, bears, vakker ox, aurochs, stag of the Alps, polar bears, wolves, walrus, seals, grizzly bears, moose, elk (wapiti), big horn, caribou, mouse (sic, mistaking a mouse in the fog for a musk ox, and then a wolf, until one of the pursuers trod on it), kangaroo, wild horses, and stags and wild goats in New Zealand. .

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Title: FROM SHIKAR & SAFARI: A BIG GAME ANTHOLOGY. Selected by E.H. Baxter.
Publisher: A & C Black. London. 1931
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New

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PAUL MORGAN IS A LEADING DEALER in scarce, out-of-print & new books on fishing and field sports. Paul has developed this business over more than forty years. His business, Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., carries the world's largest range of books on fishing and field sports, sporting guns and dogs, deer, big game hunting & falconry. Coch-y-Bonddu Books is also a noted publisher of fine sporting works, as well as being the custodian of the famous Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint. Under Paul's editorial direction, the list of titles available under both his Coch-y- Bonddu Books imprint and the Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint grows by the month. Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., incorporated in the United Kingdom, Company No. 04636991. Registered address: 15 Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8AG. Business and correspondence Address: 13 Heol Pentrerhedyn, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8DG.

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