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J. B. Lippincott Company. Hardcover. Good/None. Pages have markings on a few and some stamps on the page edges. The page edges have heavy foxing. The cover has some scuffs and soiling. The edges of the cover have wear, bumping, and rubbing.

Seeley Service & Co 1951. Octavo, beige cloth boards with gilt lettering to brown cloth spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 445pp, illus, VG- (light soiling & tanning to page edges, front hinge loosening) in POOR d/w (several large tears with loss, heavy bruising to edges & folds, nicks to corners, long tatty closed tear to front flap fold, etc)

Seely, Service & Co, 1932. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. boards are worn and somewhat damp stained. heavy foxing and markings. ownership inscription. loose binding and visible netting. fair condition.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

H. Fine.

London: Seeley, Service & Co, 1951. Reprint of the 1932 original, part of the "Lonsdale Library of Sports, Games & Pastimes" series. 8vo. 445 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, endpaper maps. Contributors include Denis Lyell, Burrard, Powell-Cotton, and Gordon-Cumming. Czech Africa, p. 110 (for the first edition): "An essential title in the African big-game library ... describing the hunting regions of the continent with attendant analysis of game animals and hunting methods ... a wealth of information with exciting hunting experiences throughout." Gift inscription, else very good. Tan quarter-buckram and cloth, gilt spine title, dust jacket with pictorial paper onlays on upper panel and spine (short tear at head of spine taped). (7374).

Seeley, Service & Co., 1951. 1st. Ed. Rep.. pp.445 with b/w. photos. 8vo. A thor. vg. hardback in original beige cloth boards. The front-end papers feature a map illustrating �The Distribution of African Game� across the continent.

London: Seeley, Service & Co.. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Heavy rubbing and flecking to cloth boards. Moderate foxing to page edges. Narrow split to gutter at front hinge. ; 445, [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + plates. Brown cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Gilt "L" and crown on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 212 x 138mm. Map of Africa on front endpaper. Series: The Lonsdale Library, Volume XIV. [Reference: Czach, African, p. 187 : "An essential title in the African big game library, this work calls on the talents of numerous African sportsmen as contributors describing the hunting regions of the continent [. . .]"] .

London, England: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 1932. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. In a series of books dedicated to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales (who would become King Edward VIII), this volume is a comprehensive summary, with contributions by various hunters, of big game hunting across different regions of Africa, arranged by geographical section. Preliminary chapters cover equipment, safety, skinning, dangerous prey, & medical information. Written for the British elite in an era which glorified the killing of defenseless animals in the service of man's ego, it offered this codicil: "Kill fairly & sparingly" not for any humane reason, but "that the Big Game of the world may survive to give sport to those who come after." We find it hard to find anything redeeming here, but if it's your cup of tea, this is a FIRST EDITION from 1932, in 445 pages with map endpapers + 150 black-and-white photographs throughout the… Read More

London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. 1932. 8vo. 445 pp. Green quarter morocco over green cloth. Top edge gilt. Ribbon marker. Marbled endpapers. Spine faded to a uniform tan colour. Foxing to fore-edge. With a map and 150 illustrations. This is the Library Edition in the superior binding. A VG copy. . Very Good. 1/4 Morocco. 1932.

London. Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., (n.d.) (1957). The Lonsdale Library Volume XIV. 445 pages. Map on blue endpapers. 141 b/w Plates. Overall 150 illustrations. Quarter beige cloth with a different shade of beige cloth, gilt design on front, and gilt titles on spine. VG+ to FINE.. Hardcover. Very Good+.