African Hunter by Mellon James, First Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In Very Good Used Condition. Name Inside Front Cover. With Wear, ear and Repairs With Tape To Dust Jacket. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. No Extra Shipping Charges In North America. Vintage 1975 1st Edition Regarded as the most comprehensive title ever on African hunting. There are 380 first-class black-and-white pictures on the 522 pages, with 52 chapters focusing on 20 different African countries. The scope of this book is more exhaustive than ANY other book on African hunting. James Mellon led the Carnegie Museum's East African expedition, which collected more than 3,500 bird, mammal, and reptile specimens for scientific study, and he spent 15 years in Africa hunting and collecting his specimens. This book is a result of that and other expeditions, and it covers absolutely ALL African game animals. No other book on general African big-game hunting has sold more copies-over 12,500 copies sold! Thrilling stories of the most dangerous and exotic animals of the Dark Continent that will keep you enthralled from the first to the last page. Demand has remained steady for twenty years, with good reason: IT IS THE BEST!

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover: VG+, small tears at top of spine from use, binding tight. DJ: G+, tears at top but clean and intact. In acetate. 1st Edition. Signed by the author on front inside cover page.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1975). 1975 1st edition. Large 4to (232 x 310mm). Ppxx,522. B/w photographs, illustrations and maps throughout, bibliography. Silver and red titles to black boards and spine. Some use, slight soiling to page edges. Good-plus in quite used dust-wrapper. A country-by-country and species-by-species survey of African game and hunting. The most comprehensive and authoritative modern book on the subject. Chapters include: Kenya: General survey; The elephant country; Masailand; The Northern Region; The Mountain forests; In the old days. Tanzania: General survey; A Greater Kudu hunt; How Edmund sunde shot his elephant. Uganda: General survey; Huntin Sitatunga on the Sesse Islands in Lake Victoria. How to arrange a safari. The element of danger: An elephant's revenge; A brush with a Rhino; the Buffalo who had eleven lives; A double Lion mauling; My first Leopard mauling. Sporting arms and their use in Africa. Ethiopia: General survey; The Abyssinian Ibex or Walia; The Mountain Nyala; Quest for the Nile or Mrs Gray's Lechwe. Somalia: Beira Antelope, Dibatag, Speke's Gazelle, Somali Soemmering's Gazelle, Hunter's Hartebeest, Pelzeln's Gazelle, and other game. The skinning, field care, and shipment of game trophies, by Rowland Ward, Ltd (London). Sudan: General survey; Hunting Nubian Ibex in the Red Sea Hills; Staliking Nile Lechwe at Lake Nyubor. Central Africa: General survey; A Bongo hunt in Ubangi; Hunting the Giant Eland; A Barbary Sheep hunt in the Ennedi Mountains of Chad; Hunting in the Sahara on foot, and from a safari car; Into the recesses of the Sahara. West Africa: General survey; Gabon; Liberia. North Africa. South Africa: Vaal Rehbok, Blesbok, bontebok, White-tailed Gnu, and other game. South-West Africa, Gemsbuck, Greater Kudu, and other game. Angola: General survey; Shooting the world-record Giant Sable Antelope. Mozambique: General survery; Nyala. Botswana: General survey; A shoot in the Okavango region; Hunting Gemsbuck in the Kalahari Desert. Zambia: General survey; Hunting Kafue Flats Lechwe and Black Lechewe. Rhodesia. Zaire: General survey; An Okapi hunt in the Ituri Forest; African game animals. Bibliography. Numerous contributors. .

First UK edition. First UK edition. Over 380 Photos. xx, 522 pp. 1 vols. 4to ((232 x 310mm). Black printed boards. Fine in fine unclipped dj Over 380 Photos. xx, 522 pp. 1 vols. 4to ((232 x 310mm).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Black boards lettered in blue and red. 5mm x 5mm bump to top front edge and a dusty residue to the boards' surface. Unclipped jacket has 6cm x 7cm loss at head of spine, tatty with some loss at top of front flap and several chips and tears along top edge; 3cm vertical tear up edge from base of spine. Some soiling also to the white laminate, all enclosed in removable mylar sleeve. Internally two slight finger marks to ffep and slight foxing to half-title. All else tight and clean. For sale in Europe only. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.