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Edouard Foa. After Big Game in Central Africa. Adam and Charles Black, London, 1899.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition. Hard cover published by Adam and Charles Black in London in 1899. No dust jacket. Dark blue covers with gilt design of an elephant head on front and gilt lettering on spine. Front cover has a bookstore sticker glued on at top. Covers have some scuffing and edge wear, corners are bumped and worn, and spine is darkened. Top edges of pages are gilt-covered. Half title page has a price and a note about a missing photograph in book in upper corner. Pages have some tanning. Book is in fair condition. 330 pages, 3 lbs.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 330 pages
Seller: Inside the Covers, Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 330p octavo, illustrated. A very good copy bound in 3/4 red marocco and marbled boards with raised bands. Wearing at the corners. Engraved bookplate of Clarence Arthur Comstock. A nice copy
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$430.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback in decorated cloth Nice copy octavo xxvii + 330pp., frontis., b/w pls., illusts., 'Foa, a Frenchman, hunted from coast to coast across central Africa with numerous sporting episodes. His hunts for buffalo, elephant, lion, leopard, and other game in the Chiromo district. He continued to hunt elephant and hippopotamus as he travelled westward in 1895 into Barotseland. Entering the Congo, he bagged a wide variety of antelope as well as buffalo and more elephant.' Rear hinge a little tender & minimal edge-wear o/w a nice tight copy in bright blue cloth with bright gilt elephant portrait on front board
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Edouard Foa, F.R.G.S. After Big Game in Central Africa. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1899.
Price: US$469.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in English. 8vo. 330 pp. Illustrated from photographs, frontispiece and 29 plates, other illustrations through the text, map. "Foa, a Frenchman, hunted from coast to coast across central Africa with numerous sporting episodes. His hunts for buffalo, elephant, lion, leopard, and other game in the Chiromo district. He continued to hunt elephant and hippopotamus as he traveled westward in 1895 into Barotseland. Entering the Congo, he bagged a wide variety of antelope as well as buffalo and more elephant." 1st and 2nd pages unstuck. Original gilt-stamped decorated blue cloth in very good condition. Translated from the French, with an introduction by Frederic Lees. With 71 illustrations and sketch map showing Route
Seller: CAZAYLIBROS.COM, MADRID, Spain
Price: US$515.31 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover in original blue cloth covered boards with gilt elephant on front cover and gilt titles to spine, firm and tight binding with original endpapers, previous owners name written neatly in ink on half title page dated 1899, some light shelfwear to head and foot of spine and top and bottom corners commensurate with age and in otherwise Near Fine condition. First English edition, pp xxvii, 330, 9adv, introduced and translated by Frederic Lees, 29 b&w plates, numerous photographs and illustrations in text, map of route across Africa. THE PACKED WEIGHT OF THIS BOOK IS OVER 1KG, SO FOR UK FIRST CLASS AND INTERNATIONAL, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COSTS WILL BE REQUIRED.
Seller: Deeside Books, Ballater, United Kingdom
Price: US$837.37 + shipping
Description: First English Edition, 8vo, pp xxvii, (i) blank, 330, 10 advertisements, half-title, map, 29 plates, frontispiece portrait of author, many textual illustrations, original blue cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, t.e.g., a very good copy. The first edition was published in 1897. There is an account of Kimberley and the de Beers mine, Transvaal, Gazaland, Nyasaland and Central-East Africa. Included is a Tete vocabulary. Hosken p74; Mendelssohn I, p553 (French edition).
Seller: J & S L Bonham ABA ILAB PBFA, London, United Kingdom