AN AMATEUR IN AFRICA
The Adelphi Co. 1925 (nd, circa) New York, 217pp,illus. Game in the Ngorongoro Crater, with pachyderms, a night in the Sudd, and hunting throughout Africa with a man who is much more than an amateur.
The Adelphi Co. 1925 (nd, circa) New York, 217pp,illus. Game in the Ngorongoro Crater, with pachyderms, a night in the Sudd, and hunting throughout Africa with a man who is much more than an amateur.
T. Fisher Unwin. 1925 London, 1st edn, 217pp,illus. Game in the Ngorongo Crater, pachyderms, a night in the Sudd, and hunting throughout Africa with a man who is much more than an amateur. Fairly scarce title.
1947-1948 March-April. A photo album of a French hunter who visited French Equatorial Africa on a 60-day journey. The album contains 3 clippings of articles (in French) about Mr. Remodon’s trips one of which is page from “Le Saint-Hubbert”, the official newspaper of the St. Hubert Club of France. Author.....
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. 1992 Clinton NJ, 1st edn, 636pp, illus in color and b&w, ltd to 1000 signed numbered copies. An anthology of hunting stories in Kenya, covering all hunting periods from the earliest days till the closure of hunting in 1977. Contains contributions by, among others, Meinertzhagen, Patterson, Roosevelt, Percival.....
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. 1995 Clinton, NJ, 1st edn, 520pp, illus, ltd edn of 1000 copies, signed, numbered, slipcased. Leopard hunting stories from the oldest African days until the modern era. Authors include Gates, Boddington, Coogan, Selous, Herne, Dyer and many more. All in all 48 chapters on the leopard and leopard.....
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.
1976-2004 Amwell Press book collection plus ephemera. A compete Amwell Press collection; contains 129 titles/multiple volume sets. The Amwell Press was an extension of the National Sporting Fraternity founded by Jim Rikhoff. It operated from 1976 to 2004 during which time it published some of the finest sporting literature of.....
Printed for the Author by T. & W. Merccin. 1817 New York, 1st edn, viii, 554pp, fold-out map, appendix xvi. Frontis and 8 plates. In 1815, James Riley survived a disastrous shipwreck and was enslaved by Arabs in Morocco. Captain Riley's ship, the Commerce, was sailing from Gibraltar to the.....
Editorial Solitario. 2005 Spain, 126pp, color photos, shot placement diagrams/reference material. Spanish edition of the Mini THE PERFECT SHOT. TEXT IN SPANISH.
Weatherby Publication. 1972 Atkinson, WI, 132pp, illus in color and b&w, soft cover. Author was one of the early investors who helped Roy Weatherby with his firearms company. This privately printed item is based on Roethe's hunts in Kenya. Among several other excellent photos it has a great full page.....
Private printing. 1959 (nd, circa) Mexico, 322pp, private printing, limited to 1000 copies, color & b/w illus. Much on the author's safari to East Africa where he collected the big five plus plains game. His safari lasted many weeks and he covered most of the game found in that region.....
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.....
Charles Scribner's & Sons. 1910 New York, 583pp, illus. Originally bound in leather. Safaris to the Dark Continent where almost unheard of till Teddy Roosevelt embarked on his giant safari in 1909. Employing hundreds of porters the safari lasted for months on end and covered Kenya, Uganda and the Southern.....
Scribners. 1910 New York, 583pp, photos and illustrations by Phillip Goodwin, map. Also printed in 1910 this trade edition, by Scribner’s, is printed on better paper than the Syndicate Publishing edition. This edition also has 200 extra illustrations/photos. The Phillip Goodwin plates are in black and white. The 1910 Scribner's.....
John Murray. 1910 London, 1st UK edition, Imperial Library, 534+8pp, photos and illustrations by Phillip Goodwin, map. Theodore Roosevelt's famous East African safari. No African hunting book collection is complete without it. Most book collectors would argue that the first US edition should be preferred over this, the first UK.....
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. 1925 London, 339pp, illus, photo cover, limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Section I is on red stags in the United Kingdom and New Zealand (pages 1-136). In section II there is big-game hunting in Newfoundland, Australia, British Columbia, Africa, Malaysia and India.....
Amwell Press. 1988 Clinton, NJ, 225pp, illus, ltd to 1000 numbered, signed slipcased copies. Hunting in North America, New Zealand and Africa.
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1953 New York, 1st edn, 315pp, illus. Ruark's most sought-after book describing his lengthy safari in Kenya and Tanzania with his wife and professional hunter Harry Selby. This book is quite scarce in the first 1953 imprint with a stated "first edition" on the copy right.....
Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1955 New York, 315pp, illus. Ruark's most sought-after book describing his lengthy safari in Kenya and Tanzania with his wife and professional hunter Harry Selby.
Countrysport Press. 1991 Traverse City, 1st edn, 256pp, illus. A release of previously uncollected stories of the wandering through Africa of this giant in American sporting literature. Stories on the hunting, the game, the danger, and the people through the eyes of the author of USE ENOUGH GUN and HORN.....
Safari Press Inc. 1991-1998 Long Beach, 1st edn, 8 volumes, illus in color and b&w, each volume ltd to 1000 signed, numbered & slipcased copies. A complete set of the AFRICAN COUNTRY SERIES which contains some of the most noteworthy modern and old-time authors ever assembled in one set of.....
Amwell Press. 1981 Clinton, NJ, 1st edn, 304pp, illus, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered, slipcased copies. Tony Sanchez wrote this terrific work for the elephant hunters of this world. He has been a professional hunter in Africa for over 40 years and is certainly qualified to write on the subject.....
Safari Press Inc. 1995 Long Beach, 1st edn, 244pp, photos, illus, ltd to 1,000, signed, numbered, & slipcased copies. Tony Sanchez-Ariño has the honor of being amongst the elite of Africa’s professional hunters; indeed, on longevity alone virtually no one has been hunting the Dark Continent longer on a continual.....