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Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1922 ). 1922 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 221mm). Pp252. B/w photograph plates by the author, illustrations by Walter Seed. Binding C - Bright red cloth, upper board and spine titled in black, black border to upper board. Top of spine very frayed. Good only. This excellent account of a safari through the Okavango just prior to the First World War, and also includes a really good history of the East African Campaign. The author was an MP in the Australian parliament. This is a copy of Binding C - bound in bright red cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine and a black border to the upper board. The title-page of this issue states "Six drawings by Walter Seed and photographs." Other copies seen, also dated 1922, state on the title-page "Six drawings by Walter Seed and photographs by the author." .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$166.82 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1922 ). 1922 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 221mm). Pp252. B/w photograph plates by the author, illustrations by Walter Seed. Binding C - Bright red cloth, upper board and spine titled in black, black border to upper board. Several plates loose. Split to top of spine. Good only. This excellent account of a safari through the Okavango just prior to the First World War, and also includes a really good history of the East African Campaign. The author was an MP in the Australian parliament. This is a copy of Binding C - bound in bright red cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine and a black border to the upper board. The title-page of this issue states "Six drawings by Walter Seed and photographs." Other copies seen, also dated 1922, state on the title-page "Six drawings by Walter Seed and photographs by the author." .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Moderately heavy dust stains to cloth spine and to page edges. Moderate to quite heavy foxing to endpapers. Some staining to front endpaper. Some foxing throughout. One plate leaf detached and reattached inexpertly with small hinges of adhesive paper, this plate leaf now protrudes a few mm from the rest of the text block. Contemporary owner's inscription on front endpaper. ; 252 pages + 6 plates from drawings by Walter Seed (including frontispiece) + 19 photographic illustrations on 9 plates leaves. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 215 x 135mm. With an Introductory Note by Lt.-Col. Humphrey Wienholt. Part I: Peace: Lion Hunting; Part II: War: A Scouts' Patrol; Part III: War: Campaiginin in East Africa. ; 8vo
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$244.55 + shipping
Description: first edition octavo brown cloth boards with gilt lettering, 252pp illus, VG (light bruising to extremities, discolouration to eps, occassional very light foxing, owners name in pencil to fep) A VERY TIDY COPY OF A SCARCE TITLE
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Wienholt, Arnold. The Story of a Lion Hunt. Andrew Melrose, London, 1922.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 252 pp, ill. Hunting for lions along the Okavango River on what can only be called a super sporting excursion. Also incl. some of the author's military adventures during the war. Scarce book in vg to vg+ condition in red cloth (variant binding). Excellent reading.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Description: (Hardcover, 1922 ). 1922 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 221mm). Pp252. B/w photograph plates by the author, illustrations by Walter Seed. Binding A - Maroon cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt. Some foxing throughout, cloth worn and faded, spine frayed else good copy of a scarce book. This excellent account of a safari through the Okavango just prior to the First World War, and also includes a really good history of the East African Campaign. The author was an MP in the Australian parliament. This is a copy of Binding A - bound in maroon cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. The title page of this issue states ".photographs by the author." Other copies seen, also dated 1922, have had the title-page re-set with the words ".by the author" removed. .
Seller: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom
Price: US$259.03 + shipping
Description: in-8vo, Frontispiece (drawing by Walter Seed) + 252 p. + 5 drawings by Walter Seed + 10 p. with photographs, small legacy stamp ?Guggisberg?, orig. red cloth. First edition.Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.
Seller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., Fribourg, Switzerland
Wienholt, Arnold. The Story of a Lion Hunt. Andrew Melrose, London, 1922.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 252 pp, ill. Hunting for lions along the Okavango River on what can only be called a super sporting excursion. Also incl. some of the author's military adventures during the war. Scarce book in vg+ to near fine condition with neat gift inscription on front free end paper. Excellent reading.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.
Wienholt, Arnold. The Story of a Lion Hunt. Andrew Melrose, London, 1922.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 252 pp, ill. Hunting for lions along the Okavango River on what can only be called a super sporting excursion. Also incl. some of the author's military adventures during the war. Scarce book in vg+ condition. Excellent reading.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.