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Price: US$230.90 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1933). 1933 1st edition. 8vo (150 x 225mm). Ppxvi,260 + 18pp ads. B/w photograph plates. Brown patterned cloth, spine titled in gilt, gilt elephant head vignette on upper board. Cloth used & gilt very dull. Ex-library copy with several small unobtrusive stamps and a small label on rear paste-down. The scarce first edition of one of the classic studies of African elephants and elephant hunting. "Blunt was an elephant control officer in Tanganyika, hunting primarily in the Lindi Province. He details the natural history and biology of the elephant, relates his experiences as a cultivation officer and provides an excellent chapter on past and present elephant hunters." Czech. ".probably the most encyclopaedic book on elephants." Melland. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Blunt, David Enderby. ELEPHANT. East Africa, 1933 1st edition, 1933.
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Description: 35+260 pages, adverts, 22 illustrations : author worked among elephants in Tanganyika from 1925 in Lindi Province & later in Iringa & Lake Rukwa, this is an excellenr survey of elephant hunting & hunters, rifles, habits & preservation of elephants, natives & game, Czech page 30 "A classic of African elephant hunting"; hardback, gilt elephant motif to front board, spine faded ow almost vg SCARCE - a heavy book that may attract extra postage east africa elephant hunting elephants big game hunters tanganyika iringa rukwa tanzania tanzanian safari
Seller: Yesterday's Books, BOURNEMOUTH, United Kingdom
Blunt, David Enderby. ELEPHANT. East Africa, 1933.
Price: US$296.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st 1933. Good condition with no wrapper. Brown imitation leather cloth with gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 260 pages + xxxv. B/w photos. Spine and corners bumped. Covers worn and marked. Gilt to spine faded. Foxing to textblock and some page margins. Some grubby fingermarks to prelims. Endpapers lightly browned. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. xxiv, 260 pp. Illustrated; plates, ads. Inscribed by big-game hunter and author Russell Aitken in 1953. Original brown cloth (rubbed, spine dull, evidence of repairs to joints) with gilt-stamped elephant head on upper cover (dull). Good copy.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Commander David Enderby Blunt. Elephant Special Collection. East Africa, 1933.
Price: US$490.57 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition thus, fine condition. Elephant Special Collection by Commander David Enderby Blunt. Published by East Africa in 1933. Hardcover. First edition of a classic study on African elephants and elephant hunting. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium