Lion-Hunting in Somali-Land: Also, an Account of "Pigsticking" the African Wart Hog (Peter Capstick's Library) by C. J. Meliss - 1991

St Martins Pr, 1991T. hardcover. Like New. 1.0000 in x 8.3000 in x 5.5000 in. OWNERS PRESS INSIDE COVER-UNREAD

NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First edition . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Sm8vo. Aldin, C., C. Melliss. Clean unworn volume in like dust jacket (Owner name on upper d.j.). Binding tight as volume unread.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good Condition. Minor wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Dust jacket in very good condition with light wear to edges and corners. Pictures available upon request.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 186 pp. Brown boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white photographs. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Editor's Note to the Reprint Edition by Peter Hathaway Capstick; Lion Hunting in Somali-land; and Pigsticking in the Somali Country, East Africa - The African Wart Hog..

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: St Martins Pr, 1991. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Aldin, Cecil. Stated First Edition (First Thus) With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. Originally Published 1895. The Upper Corners Are Bumped. The Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition With Short Tear At The Upper Back Edge.

NY:: St. Martin's Press,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0312054637 . Part of The Peter Capstick Library series. First printing thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .

New York: St Martins Press, 1991 Clean and tight, very light wear to the unclipped jacket. Nearly as-new.

New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near fine/near fine, used, 186pp. Interior clean no marks, pages near bright, binding tight. Slight shelf rubbing to dj, no chips or tears, dj is not price-clipped and is enclosed in a protective sleeve..

(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991) 0312054637. A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (xii) + 186; plates. Trace of foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good to near-fine condition. (Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 194 [Chapman & Hall 1895 edition]) 'Somaliland, today the Somali Democratic Republic, was once a favorite hunting ground for British officers stationed there or in Aden. A captain in the 9th Bombay Infantry, C. J. Melliss was a pioneer of those professional soldiers of the Thin Red Line of Empire on Indian duty who found new areas of sport here. Ranging well inland despite the risk of irregulars of the Mahdi ... Melliss was able to hunt lions and "pigstick" warthogs, replacing the Indian sports of tiger and wild boar hunting. He tells in his book… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.