SUTHERLAND, James.. The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter.. , 1912.

Price: US$343.59 + shipping

Description: London: Macmillan, 1912. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth (inner hinges strengthened; corners worn). Gilt. T.e.g. (xx, 324, 2pp.). With frontisp., and num. illusts. some of which are full-page. 1st edition. Front hinge cracked. Inscription on front end-paper. Toning on end-papers, otherwise a very good copy of this important work.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

SUTHERLAND, James. The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter. Macmillan and Co., London, 1912.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: xviii, 324 p. 23 cm. 53 b&w illustrations. Bound in quarter leather with marbled paper boards. A little foxing to title page and frontispiece tissue guard. Discoloured lower corner pages 22-23 and tear at bottom of 205. The memoirs of a world-record-holding elephant hunter. Besides describing the hunt, Sutherland meets man-eating lions, snakes, hippos, leopards, African natives, slave girls, etc. The author does not recommend elephant meat, being "coarse-fibred and without any flavour" but finds the trunk "by far the most palatable portion of the elephant." This window into a vanished age is not for the squeamish or politically correct.

Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada

Sutherland, James. THE ADVENTURES OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER. Macmillan, London, 1912.

Price: US$458.19 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Binding: rebound in blue cloth; Condition notes: original spine and vignette from front cover of elephant and terrier laid down, new eps, a nice tight copy of a rare classic; Illustrations: 53 B/W; Pages: xix + 324; Edition/printing: 1st

Seller: Peter J. Ayre's Books, Somerset, United Kingdom