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Stigand, Capt. C.H.. Hunting the Elephant in Africa and Other Recollections of Thirteen Years' Wanderings. With an introduction by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. With illustrations. Macmillan Co, New York, 1913.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Description: First American edition. 8vo. xv, (1), 379 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Czech Africa, p. 156: "A pre-eminent hunting title, this details Stigand's big game hunting efforts primarily in British East Africa, North Eastern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, and the Lado Enclave. He includes chapters on hunting rhinoceros, buffalo, and lion, but relates his encounters with elephant with particular verve . 'there is something so fascinating and absorbing about elephant hunting that those who have done much of it can seldom take any interest again in any other form of sport.'" Very good. Original green cloth (rubbed, spine somewhat creased). (7417).

Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.

Stigand, Capt. C.H.. Hunting the Elephant in Africa and Other Recollections of Thirteen Years' Wanderings. With an introduction by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. With illustrations. Macmillan Co, New York, 1913.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Description: First American edition. 8vo. xv, (1), 379 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates. Czech Africa, p. 156: "A pre-eminent hunting title, this details Stigand's big game hunting efforts primarily in British East Africa, North Eastern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, and the Lado Enclave. He includes chapters on hunting rhinoceros, buffalo, and lion, but relates his encounters with elephant with particular verve . 'there is something so fascinating and absorbing about elephant hunting that those who have done much of it can seldom take any interest again in any other form of sport.'" Still a good solid copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated navy cloth (rubbed, old repair to rear joint). (#7822).

Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.

Stigand, C. H., Capt. Hunting the elephant in Africa, and other recollections of thirteen years' wanderings . with an introduction by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Macmillan and Co, London, 1913.

Price: US$1562.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 379, [1], [6] ads; folding table giving particulars of 25 felled elephants, 27 photographic illustrations on 16 plates; some rubbing at the extremities, otherwise a very good copy in original red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Czech, Africa, p. 156: "A pre-eminent elephant hunting title, this details Stigand's big game hunting efforts primarily in British East Africa, North Eastern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, and the Lado Enclave."

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

Stigand, Capt C H.. Hunting the Elephant in Africa. Macmillan & Co, NY, 1913.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Description: And other recollections during 13 years wanderings. With an intro by Theodore Roosevelt. 379 pp, ill. Top edge gilt. One of the great elephant hunting classics by the prolific and widely collected (and respected) authors of big game hunting classics. A beautiful, near fine to fine copy in original cloth. Great for any collector.

Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.