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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: frontis, photos (mostly small although some are full-page) index, xxiii, 531, 12p. Original pink cloth. 23cm. Cover faded. Backstrip has some discolored areas or spots and is frayed at ends. Cloth splitting here and there along joints. Zebra endpapers present. Hinges reinforced with strips of cellophane tape. Contents sound although this copy lacks the folding map that is supposed to be in the cover pocket. No jacket.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Both joins split along entire length. Spine cloth nearly detached. Chips to margins of spine cloth. Sellotape stains to margins of spine. Hinges broken. Sellotape reinforcement to gutters at hinges. Internally good. Some foxing. Folding map with a 15 x 3mm abrasion along one fold. Suitable for rebinding.; xxiii, [1], 531, [1 (blank)], [12 (advertisements)] pages + frontispiece + 1 large folding colour map in pocket at rear. 91 illustrations within the pagination (mostly in-text, some full page). Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 225 x 160mm. The map is titled "A Map of Part of Abyssinia showing P.H.G. Powell Cotton's Route - Zeila to Massowah". "When I started from Englan in the month of Octover 1899, nothing was further from my thoughts than writing a book on Abyssinia. I intended to joint a sporting expedition, whose goal was the newly discovered game-country round Lakes Rudolf and Stephanie. Circumstances altered my plans, with the result that after some weeks' stay at Adis Abaa, I found myself engaged, without a single white companion, on a journey through regions which no European foot had trod for generations." - from the Preface.
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$385.72 + shipping
Description: Original deep pink cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. Binding a bit discoloured, else (very) good. Please see description or ask for photos.
Seller: Antiquariaat Hortus Conclusus, Den Haag, Netherlands
Price: US$501.76 + shipping
Description: xxiii 531 pages, 12 pages adverts, full page and text illus, loose coloured folding map, signed on the half title "with best wishes Christopher Powell Cotton". Christopher is the author's son, bound in plain maroon cloth, vg+. The Powell Cotton Museum had a small amount of copies which they bound with the Rowland Ward end papers, the map in this copy is a later facsimile. An excellent narrative of sport and exploration in the Abyssinian Hinterland. Czech 133.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$501.76 + shipping
Description: XXIII 531 pages, 12 pages adverts, full page and text illus, loose coloured folding map, bound in plain maroon cloth, vg+. The Powell Cotton Museum had a small amount of copies which they bound with the Rowland Ward end papers, the map being loose in the style of the original in the late 1950's, early 60's. An excellent narrative of sport and exploration in the Abyssinian Hinterland. Czech 133.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$560.79 + shipping
Description: XXIII 531 pages, 12 pages adverts, full page and text illus, loose coloured folding map, bound in plain maroon cloth, vg+. The Powell Cotton Museum had a small amount of copies which they bound with the Rowland Ward end papers, the map being loose in the style of the original in the late 1950's, early 60's. Includes a handwritten slip on Powell Cotton Museum headed paper noting the binding in 1976 on the original edition for the benefit of the museum signed by Christopher Powell Cotton, the author's son, also signed on 1/2 title. An excellent narrative of sport and exploration in the Abyssinian Hinterland. Czech 133.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$631.24 + shipping
Description: XXIII, (1), 531 pp. + 12 pp. (publ. cat.) + photogravure frontispiece of Abyssinian Ibex + folding colour map (loose in a pocket at end). Photo illustrations in the text. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, zebra end-papers, spine faded. A few neat underlines in the text, edges slightly foxed. With a original handwritten letter from the author tipped in inside front cover.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1902). 1902 1st edition. Large 8vo (164 x 233mm). Ppxxiv,531,12[ads]. B/w photographs, folding colour map in wallet in rear paste-down, zebra-pattern end-papers. Gilt titles to red cloth, spine titled in gilt. Spine slightly shaken and faded, foxing to preliminaries and edges. Good copy. ".with a description of the game, from elephant to ibex, and notes on the manners and customs of the natives." "When I started from England in the month of October 1899, nothing was further from my thoughts than writing a book on Abyssinia. I intended to join a sporting expedition, whose goal was the newly discovered game country round Lakes Rudolf and Stephanie. Circumstances altered my plans, with the result that after some weeks' stay at Adis Ababa, I found myself engaged, without a single white companion, on a journey through regions which no European foot had trod for generations. Having kept a careful record of the sport I enjoyed and the chief incidents of my wanderings, and brought back numerous photographs of the scenery, people, and game of the little-known districts through which I passed, I have thought that the narrative of my experiences, .might be sufficiently interesting to be published." Interesting, detailed and instructive. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
P. H. G. Powell-Cotton. A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia. Rowland Ward, Limited, London, 1902.
Price: US$705.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of Powell-Cotton's energetic account of a nine-month hunting trip undertaken through Abyssinia, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.A vivid account of a sporting trip taken through Abyssinia, a journey of nine months that travelled from the plains of the Hawah to the snows of Simien.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one colour folding map, nine plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.Written by Percy Powell-Cotton, an explorer, hunter, and conservationalist.Twelve pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Spine is a little faded, with marks to the spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Folding map with closed tears to the folds. A couple of light marks to the boards. Light spots to the fore edge. Hinges are starting a little but remain firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Powell-Cotton, Major P. H. G.. A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia. Rowland Ward, London, 1902.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: Nine months journey from the plains of Hawash to the snows of Simien, with a description of the game from elephant to ibex and notes on the manners and customs of the natives. 531 pp, ill, folding map. One of the few books with a lot on Ethiopia, especially elephant and elephant hunting. Bound in cloth from leftover first edition sheets for the Powell-Cotton Museum and signed by the author's son. VG+ hinges weak.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.