LIONS, GORILLAS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS
Dodd, Mead & Company. 1942 New York, 260pp, photos, drawings. Hunting in the Kivu forest of the Belgium Congo for gorilla, shooting lion on the plains of East Africa among other African hunting.
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SIX MONTHS AT THE CAPE; or Letters to Periwinkle from South Africa.
James Nisbet & Co. 1878 London, 1st edn, 256pp & 8pp advertising, frontis, drawings. Letters from the author in South Africa to his friend, "Periwinkle." Hunting for ostriches, springbok, lion as well as travel. According to Czech he gives interesting and amusing accounts on ostrich and later in the book.....
BELL OF AFRICA; with Appendix on Rifles and Shooting
Charles Branford. 1961 Boston, 1st US edn, 236pp, map, illus. His autobiography edited by Col. Townsend Whelen. Adventures in the Yukon, South/East Africa, and during W.W.I. Also Bell's drawings, his early days in Africa, and lots of elephant hunting too.
INCIDENTS FROM AN ELEPHANT HUNTER'S DIARY
Safari Press Inc. 2017 Long Beach, 2nd edn, 298pp, drawings, photos. Walter Bell was without a doubt one of the greatest if not the greatest of all elephant hunters that set foot in Africa. This new book of short elephant hunting sketches and experiences in Africa while he was in.....
INCIDENTS FROM AN ELEPHANT HUNTER'S DIARY & REMINISCENCES OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER
Safari Press Inc. 2017 & 2018 Long Beach, 1st edn, 308 & 391pp, drawings, photos, ltd to 1,000 numbered and slipcased copies. Walter Bell was without a doubt one of the greatest if not the greatest of all elephant hunters that set foot in Africa. This new book of short.....
REMINISCENCES OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER; The Autobiography Of W.D.M. "Karamojo" Bell
Safari Press Inc. 2018 Long Beach, 1st edn, 391pp, drawings, photos, ltd to 1,000 numbered and slipcased copies. Who was W. D. M. “Karamojo” Bell? Immediately what springs to mind is that he was one of the most famous elephant hunters of all time, but who was the man behind.....
THE WANDERINGS OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER
Country Life. 1923 London, 1st edn, 187pp, illus. The greatest of all elephant books by the greatest of all elephant hunters, "Karamojo" Bell. Foremost an elephant title but also includes buffalo and lion. Both in production and writing the best of the old elephant hunting titles. Reprinted half-a-dozen times, yet.....
THE WANDERINGS OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER
Briar Patch Press. 1987 Camden, SC, 187pp, illus, leatherbound. The greatest of all elephant books by the greatest of all elephant hunters, "Karamojo" Bell. Foremost an elephant title but also includes buffalo and lion. Both in production and writing the best of the old elephant hunting titles. Good quality reprint.....
THE WANDERINGS OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER (audio books)
Safari Press Inc. 2007 Long Beach, 6 audio CDs, running time 7 hours 29 minutes. Now for the first time on CD as a audio book! This is the first book written by W. D. M. Bell, an intrepid adventurer, who was known far and wide as “Karamojo” Bell for.....
WHITETAILS IN ACTION
Jumpin' Buck Enterprises. 1996 Fort Worth, 1st edition, 191pp, color photos. Expansive photographic study of whitetail deer. Large format with lots of color photos. Great gift.
CARPET SAHIB; A Life of Jim Corbett
Constable. 1986 London, 1st edn, 278pp, original family photos. This is the story of a hunter-turned-conservator and a typical "domiciled" Englishman in India. It is also a gripping tale of inestimable courage, of a deep love for India and her people, and a dedication to natural beauty. Contents: Introduction; 1.....
STRAY SPORT
William Blackwood and Sons. 1893 Edinburgh, 1st edn, Vol. 1: xii + 304 pp. Frontis + 9 plates + text illustrations. Vol. 2: viii + 293 pp. + 32 pp. ads. Ken Czech says of this set; "In this extensive work combining the author's sporting adventures in India, Ceylon, and.....
ROAMING WITH A RIFLE; Big Game Hunting Adventures in Africa and Other Faraway Places.
Trophy Room Books. 2000 Augora, CA, 1st edn, 260pp, illus, ltd to 1000 signed and numbered copies. Author is a South African who hunted far and wide on his own continent as well as an occasional trip to Asia (Marco Polo) and a hunt in Arctic for polar bear.
MY WANDERINGS THROUGH AFRICA
Safari Press Inc. 2004 Long Beach, 1st edn, 208pp, photos, ltd to 1000 copies, numbered, signed, and slipcased copies. Reading these anecdotes, one can imagine oneself in ideal surroundings: a campfire, starry skies, a couple of friends, the call of a jackal, perhaps a lion moaning in the distance, the.....
GAME TRAILS FROM ALASKA TO AFRICA
Private Printing. 1938 (no place) 180pp, illus. Hunting big game in the Western U.S. and British Columbia for bighorn, pronghorn, wapiti, and puma. Then to Kenya for a safari after buffalo, lion, and rhino. Finally a Mexican jaguar hunt.
GAME TRAILS IN IDAHO AND ALASKA
Private printing. 1940 (no place), 43pp, illus, limited to 400 numbered copies. Carpenter was a long-time member of the Boone & Crockett Club. Here he chases bighorn sheep in Idaho and big grizzlies in Alaska.
MY AFRICAN SAFARI
Roycrofters. 1937 New York, 34pp, illus, marker, map. Rare, small book on Carpenter's African hunt, privately printed for him. Certainly the rarest of all his titles. Very hard to get and a fine addition to an Africana library.
BIG GAME HUNTING AND ADVENTURE 1897-1936
MacMillan and Co. Limited. 1937 London, 1st edn, 322pp, illus. The author ranged all over Africa, largely after big ivory, penetrating the pygmy forests and other recesses then still unexplored. An increasingly scarce book.
BIG GAME AND BIG LIFE
E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. 1925 (nd, circa) New York, 242pp, many illus, map. Sheep, moose, caribou, grizzly, goat in N. America, then to Africa for crocs, buffs, sitatunga, rhino, leopard, lion, and a bundle of plains game. Elephant chapters are interesting.
THE JOURNALS OF ANDREW J. STONE; Expeditions to Arctic and Subarctic America for Mountain Sheep, Goat, Caribou, Grizzly, Moose, and Muskoxen 1896-1903.
Safari Press. 2012 Long Beach, 1st edn, 428pp, photos, drawings, limited to 250 signed, numbered, slipcased copies, Signed by R. Margaret Frisina and Wilson R. Stone. New York City was abuzz on 3 April 1903; Andrew J. Stone, world-renowned Arctic explorer and hunter-naturalist, was fêted with a dinner/reception at the.....
SPORT AND SERVICE IN AFRICA
The New York Zoological Society. 1905 New York, 36pp, illus. This book is the result of a long time study on the rocky mountain goat.
ROUND THE CAMPFIRE
Amwell Press. 1989 Clinton, NJ, 187pp, illus, td to 1000 numbered, signed, slipcased copies. Henley, a long time Botswana PH, tells his story. A rather scarce Amwell Press book which was later re-issued in a trade edition. When ever we have this book it sells almost immediately.
THE LOST WILDERNESS; True Accounts of Hunters and Animals in East Africa
Safari Press. 2000 Long Beach, 1st edn, 216pp, photos, illus, ltd to 1000, numbered, & slipcased copies, signed by Mohamed Ismail and Alice Thor Planfetti. The Lost Wilderness is the story of Mohamed Ismail's years in Kenya and Tanzania as a game warden and professional hunter. In this book Ismail.....
SEVENTEEN FAMOUS OUTDOORSMEN
Canterbury Press. 1929 Chicago, 1st edn, 192pp, drawings, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by author. Biographical sketches of such famous early America hunters such as Henry van Dyke, George LaBranche; Van Campen Heilner, Gifford Pinchot, James Henshall, Edward Hewitt, Fred Peet, John Borden, Edward Breck and others. Rather scarce.....
SPORT AND TRAVEL IN BOTH TIBETS
Blades, East and Blades. 1909 London, 87pp, 25 colored illus, 2 maps, large format. The only early sheep and ibex hunting book we know of that was written by a woman. Judging from the photo onset on the cover Lady Jenkins obtained some excellent trophies. Animals hunted include blue sheep.....
