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Frederick Courteney Selous. Sport and Travel: East and West.. Longmans, Green And Co., 1900.
Price: US$11.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1900. No Edition Remarks. 311 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white photographs throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and photographs are lightly tanned with stains and markings throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. ix, 311 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates; 32-page publisher's catalogue at rear. Phillips, p. 338. Heller 346: "Chapters on pronghorn antelope, wapiti, mule deer, bighorn sheep, and whitetail deer." Czech Asia, p. 182: "[Hunting] in Turkey [for] wild goat [and] trophy maral stags. The second half of this work deals with [Selous's] hunts in the Rocky Mountains." Ex-Massachusetts State Library copy, with its blindstamp and ink "c." under the date on title page and accession stamp and "withdrawn" stamp on verso, label removed from spine, a good solid copy. Original gilt-stamped decorated blue-green cloth (spine ends somewhat frayed, hinges repaired). (7382).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: As new leather bound copy ala Easton Press with raised hub spine, silk moire endpapers gilt edges sewn in marker etc. Special edition for the Firearms Classics Library. 2010 B64 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Frederick Selous. Sport & Travel East and West. Longmans, Green & Co, 1900.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. ix, 311 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plate.Prize Presentation copy with inscription to fep, red calf with gilt edges, boards rubbed but tight & clean internally
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
Frederick Courtney Selous. SPORT AND TRAVEL East And West. Longmans, Green, And Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$205.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy of this well illustrated hunting memoir, principally covering Selous' exploits in Asia Minor and the Rocky Mountains. Dulling to block edge, but pages are clean and bright. Former owner's signature, in pencil, to fep. Light wear to smart dark green boards with bright gilt decoration and titling to front and spine. Minor marks to rear. 8vo. 311pp
Seller: Dodman Books, Morston, United Kingdom
Price: US$211.19 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Green boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Gilt picture of an elk makes for a striking presentation in spite of some random splotches or stains that are present more on the front than rear. There are three small 1/4" in length x 1/16" width white marks. maybe paint. Some rubbing and fraying of top and bottom of spine, but no tears. Corners are rubbed, but not swollen. End papers are toned. Former owner's name in pencil on the first front end paper. After the half title page there is a crack on the inside of the binding. However, the front hinge is still very much operational. No library marks or bookplates save the pencilled name. Black and white pictures of game killed in the 1800s-wapiti, elk, mule deer.
Seller: Adams Shore Books, Quincy, MA, U.S.A.
SELOUS Frederick C.. SPORT AND TRAVEL EAST AND WEST.. London & New York: Longmans Green, 1900.
Price: US$641.34 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 311, numerous text illustrations, original green cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board, gilt stag's head on upper board, near fine. F C Selous, long noted as an authority on hunting big game in Africa, also took time to hunt in Turkey. Ascending the rough slopes of the Musa Dagh and the Maimun Dagh, he bagged wild goat (Capra aegagus). During a hunt on the Ak Dagh (White Mountain) Selous stalked and bagged trophy maral stags. The second half of this work details hunts in the Rocky Mountains. Czech p182
Seller: J & S L Bonham ABA ILAB PBFA, London, United Kingdom
SELOUS Frederick Courteney. Sport and Travel East and West. Longmans, Green and Co, 1900.
Price: US$678.53 + shipping
Description: Ix â" 311 pages + 32 pages of adverts, fill page and text illustrations. Pasted to front paste down a letter on headed paper from Selous dated Jan 15th 1910.The letter 3 sides folded and clearly written in ink to Mr Heath (Reginald Hepburn Heath, Heaths armorial bookplate on front free end paper). Selous thanks Heath for sending him a copy of The Bombay Natural History Society, Selous explains why he does not subscribe to the society. If he should ever visit India, he would like to meet Heath and renew their acquaintance. Selous ends by inviting Heath to have another look at his museum. Tipped onto front end paper are 3 newspaper cuttings relating to Selous death. Blind stamp to upper margin of half title and title page of the author's address. Publisher's grey cloth, gilt title and deer head vignette to upper cover, cloth clean and bright. Selous recounts a hunting trip to Asia Minor including hunting goat on the Malmum Dagh, the 2nd part of the book deals with his hunting trips to the Rocky Mountains Czech Asia 182
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom