Lang (Conyers) Buffalo.
£125
The Lone Trail of a Big Game Hunter
London, Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
Solo pursuit narratives being a distinct and preferred subgenre among sporting collectors, free of the safari-party padding, this book comes properly equipped with photographic plates and map endpapers. Lang himself has left almost no other trace, which in the hunting field is perhaps not a defect: the one-book hunter-authors, publishing their single testament and vanishing back into the bush, are precisely the volumes the Africana and sporting bibliographies prize.
In stock
Some foxing; cloth darkened at spine, otherwise very good.
Frontispiece.
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