Theodore Rathbone Hubback. Elephant and Seladang Hunting in the Federated Malaya States. Rowland Ward, 1905.

Price: US$700.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition. Red cloth cover with gilt lettering shows minor wear, rubbing, and soiling, small tear at the crown of spine. Gift inscription in the prelims. Pages are lightly tanned with foxing on the edges.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Hubback, Theodore R.. Elephant & seladang hunting in the federated Malay states. Rowland Ward, London, 1905.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 289, [3]; 17 illustrations from photographs (10 full-page); original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g.; fine copy. Czech, Asia, p. 107: "A longtime resident of Malaya, Hubback recounts his numerous hunting trips after elephant and seladang. Traveling from Singapore to the Pertang River and Kenawan, he collected several seladang which he regarded with respect: 'I have indeed seen a big seladang in his first rush snap a creeper as thick as a strong man's wrist - a creeper with which twenty men could easily play tug-of-war.' Near the Pahang River he successfully stalked and bagged several elephants."

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.