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Amwell Press. 1984 Clinton, NJ, 599pp, illus, ltd edn of 1000 signed, slipcased, numbered copies. Personal narrative of James Rikhoff, founder of Amwell Press. Hunting in Africa and North America, written by the founder.
Amwell Press. 1984 Clinton, NJ, 599pp, illus, ltd edn of 1000 signed, slipcased, numbered copies. Personal narrative of James Rikhoff, founder of Amwell Press. Hunting in Africa and North America, written by the founder.
Amwell Press. 1984 NJ, 1st edn, 599pp, illus, ltd edn of 1000 copies, signed, numbered, slipcased. Massive anthology on hunting the African buffalo. Covers both the old days and more recent times. Lots of reading. First book of a series covering all of the big five.
Amwell Press. 1981 Clinton, NJ, 438 & 470pp, 2 vol, illus, ltd edn of 1000 copies, signed, numbered, slipcased. The best hunting stories on all the great cats on the earth: tiger, leopard, lion, cougar, jaguar. Must reading for the cat hunter.
Amwell Press. 1979 NJ, 1st edn, 248pp, drawings, ltd to 1000 signed numbered slipcased copies. From the founder of the National Sporting Fraternity comes this book full of his own hunting experiences. Africa and North America.
Private Printing. 1950 (nd, circa) Mexico, 234pp, many illus, maps, limited to 1000 copies. Shikar in India and Safari in Tanganyika. Romero was one of Mexico's most famous sportsman. The great majority of this book centers on his lengthy safari in Tanzania. Shooting of virtually all the species of game.....
Amwell Press. 1983 NJ, 354pp, 246pp, 412pp, illus, maps ltd to 1000 numbered and signed copies, slipcased and bound in blue leather. Charles Sheldon, America's most famous explorer/hunter of the North. This a trilogy of his works sold as a set. Sheldon's works are standards on all the big game.....
Barrie & Rockloff/The Crescent Press. 1969 London, 1st edn, 191pp, photos in b/w & color, large format. From the jacket, "This comprehensive and beautiful pictorial record of the great game animals of the world, offers the sportsman ... one of the most exciting and colorful books on animals ever published.".....
The C.V. Mosby Co. 1932 St. Louis, 199pp, 100 illus. Richard Sutton was a wealthy sportsman and member of the Royal Geographical Society. He and his wife traveled and hunted all over the world. They produced four books on their hunting travels of which this one is the scarcest. The.....
G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1927 New York, 1st edn, 413pp, illus, photo endpapers. William Morden traveled together with James Clark in Central Asia. He hunted extensively for that grand animal, Marco Polo sheep, and he went after the Ovis ammon darwini and Ovis ammon in Mongolia. They also hunted Ovis ammon.....
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. 1956 New York, 1st US edn, 238pp, illus. Merfield and Powell-Cotton hunted gorillas in the Cameroon for a museum. Also hunting for other game; buffalo, hippo, duikers, etc.
Rowland Ward (Publications) Ltd. 1969 London, 13th, 438pp, illus. Thirteenth edition of the series, containing African records only.
Outdoor Life/E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1961 New York, 1st edn, 264pp, 20 color plates, b&w drawings, folio. All North American game species, where to find them, when to find them, how to hunt them, and what they look like.
Amwell Press/Winchester Press. 1976 Highbridge, NJ, 342pp, 314pp & 238pp, many illus, ltd to 750 numbered, slipcased copies, signed by all three authors. Consists of three books: THE HUNTING RIFLE by O'Connor, THE ACCURATE RIFLE by Warren Page, and THE MODERN RIFLE by Jim Carmichael. Nowadays for very hard to.....
Sincere Press. 1976 Tucson, 1st edn, 272pp, photos in b&w and color. C.J. McElroy will always be best remembered as the founder of SCI. He started hunting Africa after WW II and was on many great safaris like his contemporaries Jack O'Connor, Herb Klein and Elgin Gates. His writing style.....
Private Printing. 1953 Dallas, 1st edn, 129pp, illus. Herb Klein was undoubtedly one of the greatest hunters ever, and a Weatherby Award Winner. Here he takes us hunting in East Africa on a trip with Jack O'Connor and fellow Texan Red Early.
Samson, Low, Marston, and Company. 1892 London, 3rd expanded edition, 690pp, illus in color and b&w. A chatty, unpretentious book that gives a picture of life in India and Nepal during the days of the Empire. Tiger, leopard, crocodile, boar, and axis deer. Czech/Asia says "Apparently Inglis had so many.....
G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1970 New York, 1st US edn, 296pp, illus. The life and times of the famous PWH, Eric Rundgren. Ferocious encounters with rhino, lions, leopards, and buffalo. Rundgren's own professional ivory hunting. Also on the history of East African hunters. Good bibliography, well written and in consistent demand.....
Odhams Press Limited. 1956 London, 1st edn, 224pp, illus. Marjorie and George Michael were well-known African hunters and cinematographers and for a time had their own tv show with the BBC. Here is the story of their life from Marjorie's point of view.
Michael Joseph Ltd. 1954 London, 1st edn, 220pp, illus. Author was a controversial figure who was accused of staging charging lion pictures that he published. Yet, true or not, an interesting book with lots of elephant hunting.
Charger Books. 1994 Capistrano Beach, CA, 315pp, photos. The African safaris in this book cover a span of twenty-five years from 1950 to 1975, considered by many to be the golden age of big-game hunting on the African continent. Throughout the years Gates went on many exploratory safaris into little.....
Amwell Press. 1988 Clinton, NJ, 1st edn, 314pp, illus, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered, slipcased copies. The African safaris in this book cover a span of twenty-five years from 1950 to 1975, considered by many to be the golden age of big-game hunting on the African continent. Throughout the years.....
Amwell Press/Wolfe Publishing. 1980 NJ, 271pp, illus, ltd to 150 signed, numbered and slipcased copies. Harvey Donaldson was one of the country's greatest experts on accuracy in rifle shooting. A series of letters written to various individuals by Harvey Donaldson, who is known as the father of benchrest shooting and.....
Amwell Press. 1980 Clinton, NJ, 2 vol, 191 & 182pp, drawings, ltd edn of 1000 signed, numbered copies. Douglas Collins, who recently died in East Africa, was a district commissioner and professional hunter. From his early days in the "Horn of Africa" as well as his time in the Northern.....
Chatto & Windus. 1929 London, 1st UK edition, 269pp, illus. Marco Polo sheep, dangerous game of Africa, and North American bears. The Asian sheep section in this book is especially recommended. This is the large paper-size UK edition. Although not the first edition, it is preferable as it is the.....
A.C. McClurg & Co. 1910 Chicago, 1st edn, 299pp, 100 illus, pictorial cover. Hunting in Kenya. Author obtained special permission to enter territories that were off-limits to hunters at the time. Sections on elephant, lion, antelopes. Especially good on elephant. Author was a Nebraska rancher, a West Texas cattleman, and.....