Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. 1932 London, 1st edn, 445pp, illus, deluxe edition bound in publisher's half-green leather. James Mellon, who wrote AFRICAN HUNTER, deemed it foolish to go to Africa without owning a copy of Maydon's book. He planned all his trips with this work in hand. Covers virtually.....
Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1936 London, 1st edn, 412pp, illus, end paper maps. Complete biography of Charles John Anderson who is ranked with Sir Richard Burton and Dr. David Livingston as one of the three most famous African explorers. Foreword by General Smuts. Surprisingly scarce book.
Herbert Jenkins. 1957 London, 1st edn, 188pp, color illus. Meissner traveled alone in the CAR and Chad shortly after WW II. Hunting for Barbary sheep, lion, buffalo, hippo, bongo, elephant, and a rogue gorilla. Author was a German who wrote various hunting books. This is, unfortunately, the only book that.....
Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. 1938 London, 1st edn, 282pp, 6pp advs, photos. A TRUE RARITY!!! The 1st edn of the first book by the man who is considered by many to be the greatest professional hunter of East Africa. Much on elephant and the other big five animals. Everybody.....
Safari Press Inc. 2019 Long beach, 1st edn, 332pp, color photos, ltd to 500 copies, numbered, signed, slipcased copies. Few people need an introduction to Buzz Charlton, made famous over the last decade with a series of elephant hunting DVDs set in Zimbabwe. If you haven’t seen them, you should—they.....
Amwell Press. 1987 Clinton, NJ, 424pp, illus, large format, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered, slipcased copies. The story of Belmore Browne Hunter, Explorer, Artist, Naturalist, who toured the interior of Alaska in the early days of the 20th. Alaska was still pretty much unknown and no collection had ever been.....
Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. 1971 Christchurch, 218pp, illus. Covers all of the New Zealand game species as well as Douglas Scoring system and distribution maps. Rather scarce.
Safari Press Inc. 2015 Long Beach, 1st edn, 296pp, photos, drawings, ltd to 1000 copies, numbered, signed, slipcased copies. There was time, not all that long ago, when Africa was wild and there were tough, resourceful characters who made their living pursuing that most dangerous of careers-ivory hunting. From Bell.....
Privately Printed. 1983 Morristown NJ, 1st edn, approx. 160pp (unnumbered) photos, limited to 347 numbered copies. Together with the portfolio of twenty two color photographic plates. Slipcase. Don Frazier was a well-known Derrydale Press book dealer. This bibliography is very detailed and has black and white photos on the printed.....
Rowland Ward. 1898 London, 455pp, illus, rear pocket map. Neumann was the most famous elephant hunter of his time and led a dramatic and also tragic life. Most of his elephant hunting took place in Kenya and it was here that he was severely mauled by a cow elephant and.....
Cross & Jackman. 1911 Canterbury, 1st edn, 125pp, frontis, photos. One of the very scarcest Africa big-game hunting books to obtain; the author mounted a self-guided hunting expedition into the Sudan along the Setit and the Atbara Rivers. Together with his friend H. Leney they obtained numerous trophies including roan.....
Rowland Ward. 2026 CO, 1st edn, 256pp, 125 photos in color and B&W, maps. Limited 26 coies bound in 3/4 leather. Many sport hunters pursued elephants in the post-World War II era, yet it is unlikely that anyone was more successful in obtaining large ivory than Marc Pechenart, a Frenchman.....
Self Published. 1981 No Pace, 263pp, b&w photos. Author lived in Oklahoma and describes hois hunters for (Czech) "Bighorn in Wyoming, Stone sheep and mountain goat in British Columbia and taking Dall sheep in Alaska." As wella s many other North Ameircan hunts for bears, elk, moose, caribou and puma.....
William Morrow and Co. 1938 New York, 1st edn, 641pp, drawings and photos. "This is the most competent general coverage on the American rifle, the history of the rifle and its early developments, to the modern arm, the various makes and types" (Riling). Some of the chapters are: The Early.....
Self-Published. 1920 No Place, 1st edn, 196pp, frontis, 14 photographic plates. Rare early American hunting title. Author was born in 1830, began hunting on the Kankakee in 1852. Historical account of 19th-century pioneers in the Kankakee River Valley, exploring their hunting practices and relationships with Native American Indians, the author.....
Derrydale Press. 1937 New York, 1st edn, 189pp, drwawings and photos, limited to 950 numbered copies. Long before shark attacks made headlines from New Jersey to Florida, Tigers of the Sea explored the depths of the oceans in search of all types of sharks, many species of which had yet.....
The Altoona Tribune Company. 1916 Altoona, PA, 34pp, frontis, photos, drawings. Softcovers. Essentially bob cat hunting, albeit the author was of the opinion various different subspecies of bobcat existed in the state.
The Altoona Tribune Company. 1917 Altoona, PA, 92pp, frontis, photos, drawings. Softcovers. Traces the possible existence of a dark haired moose in Pennsylvania. Interview with locals and lore of this mystical animal.
Doubleday, Page and Co. 1900 New York, 1st edn, pages not number approx. 350pp, drawings by Ernest Seton-Thompson, G. Wright, E. Ashe, and S. Abbott. Advice for the woman who goes hunting, and trekking in the wilderness with her husband. "I have used many Western phrases as necessary to the.....
Orange Judd & Co. 1868 New York, 1st edn, 6 woodcuts, 91pp, adverts. A small delightful book on early American trapping; wolf, beaver, mink, otter and others. Instructions on how to skin and tan hides and a chapter on deer hunting as well as hints on how to use rifles.....
The Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1941 Indianapolis, 1st edn, 167pp, plus photographic plates, end paper maps. A nostalgic memoir by Archibald Rutledge documenting his 1937 return to his ancestral South Carolina home, Hampton Plantation, after 44 years. The book focuses on his extensive restoration of the neglected mansion, reflections on Lowcountry history.....
Doubleday, Page and Co. 1924 New York, 1st edn, 298pp, photos. Rutledge was born on October 23, 1883, in McClellanville, South Carolina. As a boy, Rutledge lived and hunted on Hampton Plantation with his father and brothers. The book contains twenty-five short stories previously published magazines such as Outdoor Life.....
Trophy Room Books. 2001 California, 1st edn, 236pp, photos, ltd to 1000 signed and numbered copies. On one side is the big game hunter. On the other side is a wild big game animal-instinctive, vigorous, quick, blessed with sharp senses and protected by the habitat as well as more familiar.....
Trophy Room Books. 1994 Agoura, CA, 326pp, illus. For nearly a century, Theodore Roosevelt has been a hero to millions of Americans. His big game hunting books are among the most often quoted and reprinted. But there has been no definitive biography of TR, the outdoorsman, until this monumental volume.....
Safari Press Inc. 1993 Long Beach, 1st edn, 182pp, illus, ltd to 500 signed, numbered, & slipcased copies. Larry Weishuhn is a well-known writer who has hunted extensively in the American South and Southwest. In this witty, entertaining book, he describes his more light-hearted adventures, misadventures, and hilarious incidents that.....
