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Stebbing, E. P.. Stalks in the Himalaya. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1912.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 23 x 15 cm. Octavo.321pp. Bound in green illustrated cloth with gilt spine lettering. Extensively illustrated with drawings. Light edgewear.

Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Stebbing, E. P.. Stalks in the Himalaya: Jottings of a Sportsman-Naturalist. John Lane/Bodley Head, London, 1912.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Description: Hardcover book, ex-library, 6" x 8.75", light green covers are very good (personal bookplate overlaying another, white ink number to spine which has the spine cloth strip neatly re-attached at one side) covers are very good - lettering bright, top edge is gilt; internally very good+ (offset to endpapers, small raised stamp to title page and 1 other page, ink number to title page, pocket at rear); xviii, 321 pp illustrated with drawings- few black-and-white photographs, index, no dustwrapper issued; indigenous animals, cats, bears, goats, etc (f-2lbs)

Seller: M H Harrington, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

STEBBING, E. P.. Stalks in the Himalaya. Jottings of a Sportsman-Naturalist.. , 1912.

Price: US$100.67 + shipping

Description: London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1912. 8vo. Binders illustrated cloth. (xxviii, 322, 2pp.). With frontisp., half-title vign., title-vign., full-page plates, and num. text-illusts. Title-page printed in green/black ink. 1st ed. Former owner's inscription on front fly-leaf and toning on end-papers, otherwise a fine clean copy.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

E. P. Stebbing. Stalks in the Himalaya. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1912.

Price: US$162.52 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: The first edition of Edward Percy Stebbing's descriptive account of his time spent hunting in the Himalayas, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.An extensive and vivid hunting work on the sport in the Himalayas, recording the author's hunts of goral, bear, serow, and more.Illustrated with a frontispiece, five plates, and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.Written and illustrated by Edward Percy Stebbing, a pioneering forester and forest entomologist in India. He was one of the first to warn of desertification and desiccation.Prior owner's stamp to the recto to the front endpaper, 'Brain Ashley'.Eighteen pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Some light marks to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the spine and extremities. Small puncture marks to the spine. Some indentations to the rear board. Stamp to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with some occasional light spots. A few pages unopened to the fore edge. Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Stebbing, E.P.. Stalks in the Himalaya Jottings of a sportsman-naturalist. John Lane the Bodley Head, New York, 1912.

Price: US$195.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 321p, ills. Hunting gorals, Himalayan stags, black and red bears, tigers, leopards, serows, tahrs, markhors, ibex, and bharals.

Seller: Yak and Yeti Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

Stebbing, E.P.. Stalks in the Himalaya. , 1912.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: STALKS IN THE HIMALAYA. John Lane, the Bodley Head, London 1912, 1st edition, 321 pages, TEG, "Jottings by a Sportsman-Naturalist with Upwards of a Hundred Illustrations by the Author and Others." One of the classics on Himalayan mountain game, stags, cats, bears, goats and sheep The decorated cover and spine and gilt spine lettering is bright and intact. The green cover is unfaded with slight bumping in one corner. Has a previous owner signature on the title page. Overall tight, clean and Very Good Plus. $225.00

Seller: Theodore J. Holsten Jr., Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.

Stebbing, E. P.. Stalks in the Himalaya: Jottings of a Sportsman-Naturalist. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1912.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Owner's signature dated 1917. Some foxing to endpapers and preliminary leaves. Some spotting to page edges. Plates clean. No splitting to gutters at hinges. Slight bruising to spine cloth. No tears or chips to cloth. Minor rubbing to cloth at tail of spine.; xxviii, 321, [1] pages + [2] pages advertisements + frontis + plates. Illustrated green cloth boards. Title page printed in green and black. Page dimensions: 220 x 142mm. "There is something peculiarly fascinating and exhilirating about mountain scenery and mountain air the world over, and especially is this so, perhaps, for the European exile in India."- page 3.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand