T. Fisher Unwin. 1912 London, 316pp, photos, drawings, maps, fold out map. Hunting in Uganda for elephant, lion, antelopes. Most narrative of travel and exploration.
Amwell Press. 1979 Clinton, NJ, ltd to 1000 signed copies, slipcase, 144pp, illus. The history of the East African Professional Hunters organization. Written by Tony Dyer, a long time member. A valuable record of the men (and women) who guided clients mostly in Kenya and Tanzania. Full of lore, legend.....
Countrysport. 1992 Traverse City, 1st edn, 288pp, profuse color photos. Hunting for the following game birds for Magellan geese, pedriz partridge, rosy-billed pochard, tinamou, red-winged partridge, dove, snow geese, quail, African turtledove, green-winged teal, shoveler, spurwing goose, guinea fowl, francolin, yellow billed duck, graylag goose, pintail, grouse, pheasant and more.....
Countrysport Press. 1994 Ohio, 236pp, color photos. A comprehensive overview of the Spanish shotgun makers and the type of guns they produce, some of whom are of surprising fine quality at very reasonable prices. The extraordinary shotguns produced by the craftsman of Spain's Basque Country are no longer a secret.....
Trophy Room Books / Rowland Ward. 1987 Agoura, CA, 200pp, illus, jacket. Taylor's last book and very much sought-after. Fine account of the "man-eaters and marauders" that Taylor met during his 35 years as an ivory hunter. During all those years John Taylor was called upon many times to dispatch.....
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1936 London, 2nd edn, 247pp. Courtney's experiences in Kenya, Uganda and the Belgian Congo. Adventure in the goldfields, a murder by cannibals, black magic and witchcraft and tales of lions, elephants, crocs hippos and other game.
Trophy Room Books / Rowland Ward. 1987 London, 221pp, illus, limited to 500 numbered copies. Readers interested in big-game hunting and the African elephant in particular will enjoy this superior title by Dennis Lyell. Lyell was one of the most famous hunters and writers of the African continent. Chapters: The.....
Trophy Room Books / Rowland Ward. 1984 (nd, circa) London, 312pp, illus, ltd to 525 slipcased copies. Regarded as one of the top elephant titles. Sutherland was an accomplished hunter and adventurer. He went on many expeditions in the back country of Africa in search of ivory. Tremendous stories since.....
Trophy Room Books. 1990 Agoura, CA, 188pp, photos. Early in his hunting career, Dawkins met John Taylor and they became friends, sharing a love of hunting, an enthusiasm for the chances and charges of the chase, and a mutual quest for knowledge about the knock-down characteristics of the various African.....
Trophy Room Books. 1991 Agoura, CA, 195pp, illus, ltd to 750 copies. More hunting stories by the man who wrote HORNED DEATH. In our opinion one of the most readable authors of the post-WW II era. John Burger frequented the Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe etc. Now available in a reprint of.....
Trophy Room Books. 1993 Agoura, CA, 320pp, illus, ltd to 750 numbered copies. In Puxley's view, a man reaches his apogee when signs show elephants he has been tracking for a fortnight are close at hand. One senses a tingling of delight, not unmixed with semi-enjoyable nervousness. The book describes.....
Trophy Room Books / Rowland Ward. 1980 (nd, circa) London, 455pp, illus, rear pocket map, ltd to 575 numbered, slipcased copies. One of the rarest elephant hunting titles in original edition. Neumann, together with Bell and Sutherland, is generally regarded as one of the Big Three elephant hunters of the.....
Trophy Room Books. 1991 Agoura, CA, 272pp, illus, limited to 750 numbered copies. Courtney's first book detailing his elephant hunting experiences in the Lorian Swamp, and hunting buffalo, lion, rhino and roan antelope in the vicinities of Lake Mara and Lake Natron in British East Africa. A well written account.....
Braun & Co, Mulhouse-Dornach. 1932 (No Place), 213pp, photos and drawings, softcover. Text in French and English. One of the few books to deal with big game in Indo-China written by a longtime professional hunter. Czech/Asia states "A professional hunter in the region, Plas provides considerable detail on hunting big.....
Seeley, Service & Co. Limited. 1927 London, 1st edn, 275pp, illus, fold out map. The author recounts his 1912 journey of exploration through Jubaland on the Somali coast to the Lorain Swamp. While on the trail, he hunted oryx, rhinoceros, gerenuk, leopard, lion and buffalo. Near Mt. Kenya, Haywood bagged.....
Herbert Jenkins Limited. 1939 London, 1st edn, 252pp, frontis, photos, end paper map. Courtney was a bank clerk in Leeds, England, before he became a professional white hunter and gold prospector in East Africa. Upon his return to England he wrote an account of his experiences, a book entitled Claws.....
Lone Star Brewing. 1960 San Antonio, 1st edn, 63pp, soft cover, photos. The Buckhorn Saloon of San Antonio is a Texas landmark containing a huge collection of trophies, especially deer. It also has Asian, African and European heads. It most famous trophy is a 78-point whitetail deer that was for.....
Safari Press Inc. 1997 Long Beach, 1st edn, 410pp, photos, illus, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered, & slipcased copies. Ian Nyschens has shot equally as many elephants as Walter Bell, and under much more difficult circumstances. His book will rank with or surpass the best elephant-ivory hunting books published in.....
Appleton-Century-Crofts Inc. 1957 New York, 1st edn, 240pp, illus. This is the exciting story of John Hunter's efforts to capture the shady headman of a gang of ivory poachers and smugglers. This story is interwoven with the tale of one of East Africa's most grandiose safaris taken with an Indian.....
2006 New York, 58pp. Founded in 1905 this is a reprint of the first by-laws, certificate of incorporation of the Explorers Club of new York. It contains a biographical essays of all members which include George Bird Grinnell, Casper Whitney, Henry Fairfield Osborn, William Abercrombie.
Herbert Jenkins. 1951-1955 London, revised edn, 3 vol, 235pp, 317pp & 522pp, photos, drawings, charts. The classic manual for the double shotgun. Three volumes: THE GUN, THE CARTRIDGE and THE GUN AND THE CARTRIDGE. Describes mechanisms, actions, cartridges and the inter-relation between all the components. Never before has the sporting.....
Safari Press. 2008 Long Beach, 1st edn, 345pp, photos, limited to 1000 numbered, slipcased copies, signed by Berit Aagaard. After the hunting ban in Kenya, Finn Aagaard and his wife of thirty-two years, Berit, moved to the USA where Finn became a hunting guide in Texas. Soon thereafter he became.....
Winchester Press. 1970 New York, 1st edn, 62pp, b&w drawings in text, a folder with 30 color prints (11x14) bound into the book, ltd to 750 numbered, signed, slipcased copies. Elephant folio; illustrated with 30 b/w drawings within text plus 30 color plates of salmon (approx. 12" x 16") loose.....
Premier Press. 1995 Camden, SC, 287pp, illus, ltd to 3000 numbered copies, marbled end papers, all edges gilt, fully leather bound. A classic on the game of the Yukon. This book is every bit as good as Sheldon's or Young's works. Moose, caribou, lots of sheep, etc. Much of the.....
Premier Press. 1997 Camden, SC, 306pp, illus, ltd to 3000 numbered copies, marbled end papers, all edges gilt, fully leather bound. Miss Herbert and her cousin Cicely, women in their thirties, decided to defy popular (i.e. male) opinion and mount their own game-hunting expeditions. They were brought up amongst a......
