Sport and Travel in East Africa. An Account of Two Visits 1928 and 1930. Compiled from the Diaries of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales by Chalmers, Patrick R - 1934

E.P. Dutton, New York, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic and Maps. publishers' foreword, list of illustrations, list of maps and index. Black-and-white photographic frontispiece, showing "130 lbs of ivory". The text is illustrated with black-and-white photography, gleaned from His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales own camera and by others. There are three foldout maps within the text, the first is a three-page foldout map showing East Africa and the Sudan, the second map, again three pages, showing Congo and the Sudan, and the last is five pages, showing Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda and the routes taken on the expeditions. All maps are in colour. Brown coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed decoration to the front panels and gilt titles to the backstrip. The reminiscences of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (later the Duke of Windsor) on two expeditions into East Africa to hunt game. Softening… Read More

Philip Allan, 1934. 1st. Hardback. Very Good. First edition hardback, 1934, with no jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards rubbed to edges with a couple of small marks. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - ownership signature and address (Kenya) neat to front endpaper; toning to page-ends but text, 3 folding maps and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

London: Philip Allan, 1934. 3 accompanying maps present. Pages clean and bright, light spotting on rear endpapers, light wear to the rear map, binding firm, light foxing to boards.. Hard. Good. 8vo.

XII 273 pages, illus, 3 folding maps, Brown cloth with gilt spine titles and decoration in blind on front board, scratches on the back. Ex library

Philip Allan: London, 1934. First. Hardcover. VG+. Trips by the Prince of Wales. An account of two visits in 1929 and 1930. 273 pp., ill., large folding map. Lots and LOTS of hunting for the big five. Also the wisdom of Bror Von Blixen Finecke and Denys Finch Hatton. Some "real wisdom" in here. VG+.