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LETCHER Owen.. BIG GAME HUNTING IN NORTH EASTERN RHODESIA.. London: John Long, 1911.
Price: US$95.40 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 266, plates (lacks Hartebeeste p182), original red cloth, t.e.g, text clean.
Seller: J & S L Bonham ABA ILAB PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Owen Letcher. Big Game Hunting In North-Eastern Rhodesia. John Long, london, 1911.
Price: US$152.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Big Game Hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia. By Owen Letcher. Published by John Long in 1911. A First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches or 22.5 x 14.5. Page number: 266. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. A classic of its time the book is written by one of the foremost hunters of the period. Chapters include: In Nature's Playground - An Exiting Buffalo Hunt; Across The Muchingas; The Country of The Awemba - Into The Great Swamps and More Hunts in the Luangwa Valley - The Return To Fort Jameson. With 52 photographic illustrations and a map. Condition: Very Good. The boards are a little worn and marked; the spine slightly faded. The binding is beginning to loosen, there are cracks in the hinges and one page sits proud of the rest such that the end block is not uniformly even. A page tip has been turned. The pages are, but for small marks, and flaws that have to do with age, are generally clean and remain un-thumbed. A previous owners name, a date and 'Reading' has been written in ink on the first end paper. There is no dust jacket. A heavy book. Additional postage may be required if shipped outside of the UK.
Seller: Bluebird Books, Brecon, POWYS, United Kingdom
Letcher, Owen. Big Game Hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia. John Long Ltd, London, 1911.
Price: US$240.41 + shipping
Description: 230mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). xii, 256pp. B/W frontis portrait, photographic plates (one missing) and fold out map. G - : in Good [minus] condition without dust jacket. Cover marked and edgeworn with chip at head of spine. Front inner hinge cracked. Foxing within, including to map. Occasional ink annotation. Tape repair to map
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Letcher, Owen. Big Game Hunting in North Eastern Rhodesia. London, John Long Ltd, 1911, 1911.
Price: US$318.01 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. 266 pages. Near fine half leather binding with marbled boards. Internally very good with numerous black and white ills. Some rashes of foxing. Scarce title.
Seller: WHITE EAGLE BOOKS, PBFA,IOBA,West London, london, United Kingdom
LETCHER Owen. Big Game Hunting In North Eastern Rhodesia. John Long Co, 1911.
Price: US$321.82 + shipping
Description: xii 266 pages, frontis portrait of the author and 52 illus from photographs and map, some occasional spotting to contents and closed page edges. Publishers red cloth evenly fading to the spine and some fading to boards. Hunting rhino, elephant, buffalo lion leopard and other game in the Luangna Valley and in the Swampland near Lake Bangweula. A classic big game hunting title. Czech 164
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
LETCHER Owen.. BIG GAME HUNTING IN NORTH EASTERN RHODESIA.. London: John Long, 1911.
Price: US$508.81 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 266, illustrations, some light occasional foxing, original red cloth, t.e.g.
Seller: J & S L Bonham ABA ILAB PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Letcher, Owen. Big Game Hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia. John Long, London, 1911.
Price: US$546.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Hardcover. Pp. 266. First Edition and includes a plate on front end-paper inscribed by the author. In very good condition; red cloth binding with gilt title on the spine. Faint shelf-wear, such as minor bumping at top and bottom of spine, and small ink stains particularly on the spine. Pages themselves are clean and tight with light foxing. Few pencil annotations and the fold-out map at the back has a small tear which doesn't obstruct the map itself. Ex-library bookplate on the front end-paper as well as library stamp in top right corner. Complete with b/w illustrations and photographs. Owen Letcher was a British gentleman adventurer and one of the first 'tourist' trophy sportsmen who made their appearance with the arrival of the railway at the Zambezi. He had studied mining and became a mining journalist in the 1920s in South Africa.
Seller: Henry Pordes Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom