Some marking, later ownership inscription to front free endpaper; cloth slightly marked and tanned, but overall a solid copy.
Frontispiece, title-vignette and plates.
£210
An account of the big game of the United States and its chase with horse, hound, and rifle
New York & London, G.P. Putnam’s, 1893.
First edition. 8vo. Original gilt-pictorial cloth.
Out of stock
Some marking, later ownership inscription to front free endpaper; cloth slightly marked and tanned, but overall a solid copy.
Frontispiece, title-vignette and plates.
Sports & Pastimes
Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter
London, Ackermann, 1841.
First edition. Folio. Original blind-tooled green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover, rebacked in later green cloth.
The attractive plates of hunting scenes illustrate sporting adventures on the Bontebok Flats in Kaffaria, near the Kat River Settlement. The book was written and sketched on the spot and is valued for its record of this part of South Africa in its early years of the nineteenth century.
Sports & Pastimes
London, George G. Harrap, 1938.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth blocked in blind to upper cover and gilt to spine. Dust-jacket.
Sports & Pastimes
Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life
London & Edinburgh, Gurney & Jackson, 1921.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered and stamped in gilt.
Chapman narrates his expedition from Khartoum to Uganda via the White Nile, detailing hunts from gazelle in Sudan to elephant near the Zeraf River. His adventures also include encounters with buffalo, hippo, and rhino near the Blue and Dinder Rivers.
Sports & Pastimes
Foreword by Henry Maxwell
London & Watford, Sun Engraving Co. Ltd, Printed for Private Circulation only, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket.
"One notable book Prince Chula wrote in 1935, "Wheels At Speed," recorded his cousin Bira's first try as a race-car driver. The book was originally intended as a book for only friends and family, but after a few copies went public, interest in the book, increased. Publishers G. T. Foulis re-issued the book ten years after it was first written. MG aficionados will enjoy Wheels at Speed." Wikipedia.
Sports & Pastimes
London, Leonard Stein, 1931.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
An anthology of English sporting stories.