Category: Hunting

Veiled Horizons: Stories of Big Game Fish of the Sea.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York: The Derrydale Press, (1939).

Seller ID: 3201bd

First Edition. Of an edition of 950, this is No. 130. Tall octavo, gilt-stamped green cloth, uncut, 2222 pp. Map, photos. Very Good; spine faded.
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Maneaters.

By: Capstick, Peter Hathaway.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Lyon, Mississippi: The Buckingham Mint, (1981).

Seller ID: qms1356

Number 1443 of a Limited Edition of Five Thousand Numbered and Printed by The Buckingham Mint and Personally Signed by Peter Hathaway Capstick. Octavo, black leather (hardcover), gilt letters & decorations to spine & covers, all edges gilt, ribbon marker, xi + 178 pp. Fine (As New).
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A Return to the Long Grass. Photographs by Paul Kimble and Richard van Niekerk.

By: Capstick, Peter.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York; St. Martin's Press, (1987). First Edition, Stated.

Seller ID: es2022

Signed & Inscribed by the Author; and slip laid-in: With the Compliments of the Embassy of South Africa, Washington, D.C. Octavo, brown boards & black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, illus. with full-color photos. throughout, xix, 213 pp. Near-Fine, with foxing to top edges; in a Near-Fine dust jacket with sunning to uppermost edge. From dust jacket: For the readers of hunting literature, the name of Peter Capstick is becoming synonymous with excitement, danger, and high adventure...Peter Capstick's Africa...is the enthralling tale of an entirely new safari, an exciting first-person adve...
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Traplines and Trails: A Book of Master Trapping Methods.

By: Dailey, E. J.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Columbus, Ohio: The Hunter - Trader - Trapper Co., 1925.

Seller ID: vita5503

Octavo, illustrated gray cloth (hardcover), 242 pp + [5] pp ads. Near Fine. Contents: Trapping Grounds -- Fur Prospecting; The Trapper's Habitation; Equipment and Food; Things Every Trapper Should Know; Adirondack Trapping; The Auto Trapline; The Fox; The Skunk and How to Trap It; The Mink; The Sly Otter; The Bear; The Busy Beaver; The Muskrat; The Raccoon; ÒCatsÓ; The Marten; The Weasel; Fisher and Wolverine; The Elusive Wolf; Miscellaneous Fur-Bearers; Incidents on the Trapline; Under Ice and Other Trapping; The Care and Marketing of Furs; Fur Farming; Outdoor Photography; ÒConclusion.
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The Recollections of William Finaughty: Elephant Hunter, 1864 - 1875.

By: Finaughty, William.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Seller ID: vas5373

Octavo, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 242 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Taken from the years well before and during the Anglo-Boer War, one of the great, early ivory hunters told his adventures to a friend who owned the pioneer paper The Rhodesian Journal. Adventurer, rogue, and hunter extraordinaire, William Finaughty survived the death that awaited many early elephant hunters, bagging over five hundred tuskers in five years, as well as living through the intrigues with which the early South Africa was fraught. ÒBillÓ Finaughty even shot five elephant...
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The Recollections of William Finaughty: Elephant Hunter, 1864 - 1875.

By: Finaughty, William. Capstick, Peter; Series Editor.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: St. Martin's Press, (1991). First Edition.

Seller ID: 60881bd

Octavo, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 242 pp. Near-Fine, in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Taken from the years well before and during the Anglo-Boer War, one of the great, early ivory hunters told his adventures to a friend who owned the pioneer paper The Rhodesian Journal. Adventurer, rogue, and hunter extraordinaire, William Finaughty survived the death that awaited many early elephant hunters, bagging over five hundred tuskers in five year, as well as living through the intrigues with which the early South Africa was fraught. ÒBillÓ Finaughty eve...
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Jagd in der Zeit. Uberblick und Deutung - 25 Jahre osterreichische Jagdgeschichte.

By: Horneck, Heribert.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Graz: Leopold Stocker, (1971).

Seller ID: m2700

1st edition. Small octavo, cloth, 194, [ii] pp. Color frontis., plates. Near-Fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket.
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Unforgettable Bowhunters: Inside the Lives of the Sport's Most Famous and Infamous Personalities.

By: James, M. R.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Amherst Junction, WI: !hunt! Communications, (2007). First Edition.

Seller ID: 2394gls

Signed by the Authors. Octavo, hardcover (slick, full-color illus. boards), 464 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: M. R. James spent 35 years writting and editing material for Bohunter magnazine, the publication that he founded in 1971. A member of the Professional Bowhunters Society since 1965 and a current senior member and president of the Pope & Young Club, James' bowhunting career now spans nearly half a century. In 2001, James was inducted into the Archery Hall of Fame as its 54th member. In 1999 he earned the Outdoor Writers Association of America's distinguished Excellence in ...
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Tales of the Big Game Hunters. Selected and Introduced by Kenneth Kemp.

By: Kemp, Kenneth.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First U. S. Editon.

Seller ID: vas5382

Octavo, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xii, 209 pp. Fine in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: The nineteenth-century big game hunters often published accounts of their adventures in pursuit if dangerous game. What they wrote captured not only the excitement of hunting, but also exploration and travel in some of the wildest regions of the world. Their motives were as diverse as the hunters themselves: sometimes a desire for ivory or trophies; sometimes the need to protect the local population from the ravages of a man-eating tiger; perhaps a commission t...
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Big Game Hunting and Collecting in East Africa, 1903 - 1926. With 200 Illustrations. Peter Capstick, Series Editor.

By: Kittenberger, Kalman.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York: St. Martin's Press, (1989).

Seller ID: vas981

Octavo, brown boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 348 pp. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: Kalman Kittenberger was a humorous, intrepid, Hungarian hunter-collector. When he was mauled by a lion, this great African character proved his courage, and wit, by calmly amputating his own mauled finger and shipping it home in preservative, along with his other specimens. The nobleman's book is one of the most heart-stopping, charming, and funny accounts of adventure in the Kenya Colony ever penned -- a diamond of reality in a field full of sensationa...
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My Neck of the Woods.

By: Lambley, Bryce W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fremont, Nebraska: Hermit House Publishing, (2008).

Seller ID: 125fd

Signed & inscribed by the author. Octavo, softbound (slick, stiff, full-color illus. wrappers), x + 209 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: With time slipping away, I looped down crosswind and slipped into the weedy waterway and worked toward the deer. The wind wan't swirling out here; instead the 20 to 25 mph blasts were blowing the 4Ó of snow around pretty steadily. It was a long shot at best, but giving up has never been one of my foibles. Twenty minutes later, I was within 40 yards of the biggest doe and it was time for extreme care. When the wind subsided, I sopped. When it pick...
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Der Einsame Wisent: Jagderlebnisse und Tiergeschichten von Hermann Lons. Herausgegeben und mit einer Einfuhrung versehen von Franz Friese.

By: Lons, Hermann.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Engelbert-Verlag: Balve/Westf., (1971).

Seller ID: qms1318

Octavo, hardcover (full-color illus. cloth), [124] pp. Near-Fine. From lower cover: Wo gibt es heute schon gute Bucher, die preiswerter sind als ein billiger Kinoplatz? Man mss den Engelbert-Verlag loben, dass er die Lons-Bande zu einem so niedrigen Preis auf den Markt bringt. Und man muss vor allem auch den Herausgeber Franz Friese loben, dass er so interessante und instruktive einfuhrende Worte schrieb und mit so sicherer Hand die lebendigsten Tiergeschichten des Dichters auswahlte. Friese hat sich dadurch ebenso als einer der besten Lonskenner erwiesen wie durch die einschlagigen Artik...
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AfricaAdventures: Letters from Famous Big-Game Hunters. Peter Capstick, Series Editor.

By: Lyell, Denis D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Near York: St. Martin's Press, (1988). First Edition.

Seller ID: vas5357

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, xiii, 270 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Famous hunter Denis Lyell corresponded with all the greats of African hunting: Stigand, Pease, Cunninghame, Colonel Stevenson-Hamilton, and others. Their priavte letters written to Lyell create an indelible, honest impression of life in the bush that words written publication cannot. Here you'll find casual description of immense danger, discussion of guns and ammunition based on long experience, and cornucopia of fascinating, sometimes humorous safari tales. In his running ...
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Jagen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Heute und Gestern.

By: Millahn, Gunter.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Hinstorff Verlag GmbH, Rostock, 2001.

Seller ID: qms582

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, full-color photo illus. wrappers), cover flaps, 128 pp. Fine (As New). From cover: Jagd - in unterschiedlicher Art und Weise thematisiert - ist in der Gegenwart ein vielumstrittenes Sujet. Diese Edition tragt dazu bei, anhand von sachlichen Argumenten den Allgemeinnutzen der Jagd in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern fur den Naturhaushalt von heute und morgen deutlich zu machen. Ausgehend von einem kurzen historischen Ruckblick, in dem u. a. Jagd in der ehemaligen DDR den heutigen Bedingungen gegenuber gestellt wird, vermittelt der Autor im folgenden dem Leser Kenntnisse vo...
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Geschichten Eines Alten Jagers: 30 Jahre Jagd in Bohmen.

By: Morl, Franz.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Julmond 1978.

Seller ID: qms43

Octavo, paperbound (stiff green photo illus. wrappers), b&w illus., 230 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear.
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Nimrod's Hunting Tours, Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings and Doings of Sporting Men, Including Notices of the Principal Crack Riders of England, with Analytical Contents and General Index of Names. To Which Are Added Nimrod's Letters on the Riding to Hounds.... In Two Volumes. [Volumes I and II of a Two Volume Set, Complete].

By: Nimrod. [Apperley, Charles James].

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1836.

Seller ID: els2570

Two volumes. Octavo, green cloth, paper spine labels, xi pp + 197 pp + [xxiv] pp ads; 228 pp + [xii] pp ads. Good, with badly chipped lables, foxing (age darkened spotting) throughout. Contents: Leicestershire; Oxfordshire; Warwickshire; Surrey; SUssex; Close of the Season 1823-4; Dorset and Devon; Hampshire; Tour in 1825; A Fortnight in New Forest; The Second Tour; The Yorkshire Tour; Visit to the New Forest; Riding to Hounds.
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Nimrod's Hunting Tours: Interspersed with Characteristic Anecdotes, Sayings and Doings of Sporting Men, Including Notices of the Principal Crack Riders of England, With Analytical Contents and General Index of Names. A New Edition with an Introduction by W. Shaw Sparrow and Twenty-Four Illustrations in Colour and Half-Tone after Ben. Marshall, Henry Alken, Wolstenholme, R. B. Davis, Wm. Webb, H. B. Chalon, James Ward, R. A., Etc.

By: Nimrod. [Charles James Apperley].

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, (1926).

Seller ID: 51683bd

Quarto, cloth (hardcover), uncut, top edge red, xx, 294 pp + [ii] pp. ads. Good, with sunned covers and spine, light soiling to spine. Numerous illustrations including full-color foxing themed plates and a folding-map.
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Game in the Desert. Illustrated by T. J. Harter.

By: O'Connor, Jack.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York: The Derrydale Press, (1939).

Seller ID: 3281qs

Of an edition of 950, this is No. 239. Octavo, cloth simulated to resemble snake skin, unopened, xx, 298 pp. Plates. Very Good; a trace of wear to head of spine, otherwise clean and tight.
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Letters on Hunting and the Management of Hounds.

By: ÔScrutator.'

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London: Philip Allan & Co., [1926].

Seller ID: m1811

2nd edition. Octavo, gilt-decorated red cloth, uncut, xii, 308 pp. 4 plates. Near-Fine; light foxing.
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other African Adventures. With a Foreword by Frederick Courneney Selous.

By: Patterson, Colonel J. H.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York: Macmillan, 1927. Enlarged edition with illustrations.

Seller ID: vita5431

Octavo, xvi, [ii], 400 pp. Photographs, map. Very Good; light wear.
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