Lion-Hunting in Somali-Land [Lion Hunting in Somaliland] Also an Account of "Pigsticking" the African Warthog by Melliss, Captain C. J. (with a new introduction by Peter Hathaway Capstick) - 1991

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. PERFECT CONDITION. NOT price clipped ($15.95). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. A beautiful, pristine copy -- bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Obviously never read. lllustrated with 2 drawings by Cecil Aldin, including the frontispiece, and 6 full-page photographs by the author. Accounts of big game hunting in Africa by a British officer of the 9th Bombay Infantry. A volume in "The Peter Capstick Library" series. Reprint of the 1895 original edition, with a new 5-page introduction by Peter Hathaway Capstick. According to Capstick, "the Melliss book is mostly about lion hunting under rather hairy circumstances" but "certainly his adventures on foot with wounded warthogs are enough to raise the hackles of the armchair reader quite sufficently." Bound in the original brown boards, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. Complete with a pristine dust jacket.. First printing of the Capstick Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Illus. by Aldin, Cecil . 8vo. (xi), 186pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.