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Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition. Hard cover published by Skeffington and Son in London in 1929. No dust jacket. Dark red covers with gilt lettering on spine. Spine is faded and is cut along front edge from top for several inches. Covers have stains and scuffing. Corners are bumped and worn, and ends of spine are worn and fraying. Hinge is split inside front cover from the top down for several inches. Some pages have foxing or spotting. Book is in fair condition. 287 pages, 1.6 lbs.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 287 pages
Seller: Inside the Covers, Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$516.52 + shipping
Description: 287 pages, frontis illustration of the author and gun bearers + 15 plates, armorial bookplate to front paste down, light spotting to closed page edges. In the publisher's brick red cloth slight fade mark to vert top of the front cover VG. A scarce title, Hudson served as Consul in Ethiopia from 1914 to 1923, then Consul in S/West Abyssinia to 1926. He recounts his hunting experiences for lion, buffalo etc., There is a section on rifle and loads, Hodson preferred a .256 Mannlicher for big cats. Czech 130
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$834.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The scarce first edition of this exploration and hunting book in Abyssinia in the early twentieth century. First edition of Where Lion Reign, An Account of Lion Hunting & Exploration in S.W. Abyssinia by Arnold Hodson.Considered one of the finest works on hunting lions in Africa.Rebound in modern quarter crushed morocco with cloth boards.A scarce edition with only nine held in libraries.Illustrated with fifteen monochrome plates with twenty one photographs and a folding map to the rear. Collated, complete. The plate listed as facing page 94 is facing page 270. Rebound in quarter crushed morocco and cloth boards. Externally, very smart. There is some minor bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with some occasional spotting. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom