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W. Buckley. Big Game Hunting in Central Africa. Cecil Palmer, 1930.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 1930. Includes inscription inside front cover: "To dear George from Erik and belle, xmas 1932"
Seller: Chapter Two (Chesham), Chesham, United Kingdom
W. Buckley. Big Game Hunting in Central Africa. Cecil Palmer, London, 1930.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dark brown cover, clear gold text on spine, title debossed but faded on front cover. Half-tone illustrations. Foxing to top and front pages but text block clear and tight, aged. Beautifully rough cut fore edge pages. Stated First Edition. Large book, additional postage will apply.
Seller: Secret Bookshop, Johannesburg, GAUTE, South Africa
Buckley, W.. BIG GAME HUNTING in CENTRAL AFRICA. Cecil Palmer, London, 1930.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Hard cover published by Cecil Palmer in London in 1930. No dust jacket. Brown covers with embossed lettering on front and gilt lettering (which has faded) on spine. Also on front are the words Salesian College, Chertsey in gilt. Spine has darkened, corners are bumped and worn, and covers have some edge wear. Front endpaper has a bookplate that states that this book was awarded as a prize at Salesian College. Top and side edges of pages have some foxing. Pages have slight tanning. Hinge inside back cover has some tears. 268 pages, 1.3 lbs.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages
Seller: Inside the Covers, Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$230.99 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1930). 1930 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 225mm). Ppviii,268. Frontispiece, b/w photographs. Brown cloth, blind-stamped titles and trademark within ruled borders to upper board, spine titled in gilt. Slight staining to cloth, slight browning, book-plate and gift inscription but good. "One of the better elephant hunting titles. Buckley hunted pachyderms primarily near the headwaters of the Nile in Uganda Territory and the Manyema region of the Belgian Congo. His descriptions of the region are quite good. There is also mention of lion hunting near the Chari River." (Czech). Chapters include: After elephant; Shooting from a ladder; Native owns wild elephant; Pace of an elephant; A narrow escape; Another close shave; Surrounded by elephants; The closest; Lost in the bush; Cow elephants; elephant food; Dangerous game; Bennet's experience; An experience among the Lugwara; Guns, traps, and trappers; Queer characters I have met; Camp-fire yarns; Native servants; An interesting canoe trip; I arrive on the Kimberley diamond fields; At the river diggings; On the Murchison range; The Matabele Rebellion; I elect to settle in the country; The Jameson Raid; The Second Matabele Rising. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Buckley, W.. Big Game Hunting in Central Africa.. London; Cecil Palmer, 1930., 1930.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Large octavo. viii, 268pp. Frontispiece photographic portrait of the Author plus 23 half-tone illustrations. Book condition: Very Good. Publishers' brown cloth with gilt titles to spine; blind titles, border and motif to upper board. Cover cloth lightly toned to spine and unobtrusively soiled, mainly to upper board; corners bruised and edges rubbed with small nick head of spine. Small white mark to ffep; scattered light foxing, mainly to prelims and page edges. No annotation or inscriptions. Classic big game hunting title with the main focus on the pursuit of elephant and lion in Uganda. Scarce.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
W. Buckley.. Big Game Hunting in Central Africa.. Cecil Palmer, London 1930, 1930.
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardback. Original cloth lightly used with slight fading to spine and faint mottling around fore-edge, a couple of page edges slightly ragged from careless opening, otherwise about very good indeed and complete with all plates. No dust jacket. Inscription to endpaper.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
BUCKLEY W.. Big Game Hunting In Central Africa. Cecil Palmer, 1930.
Price: US$324.67 + shipping
Description: viii 268 pages, 15 full page illustrations from photographs, brown publishers blind stamped cloth, a vg+ copy. A difficult title to find "one of the better elephant hunting titles, there is also much on lion hunting" a Czech 42.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom