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London: Macmillan and Co., 1912. Reprint of November 1912. Half-Leather. Very Good. 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.

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. As new. KUHN, Bob. 1000-copy slipcased edition. This copy is no. 235. An African Heritage Book xxxviii, 210p. 23.5 x 31cm brown hardcover binding with gold gilt on spine and blind impressing on front board. In a 25 x 34cm slipcase. Signed by Brakefield and Jim Rikhoff, President, NSFL. Foreword and illustrations by Bob Kuhn. Features numerous full colour photographs. No discernible wear to book. Some bumping to corners of the slipcase and a dent to one of its edges.

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. SHOFFSTALL, Donald. 1000-copy slipcased edition. This copy is no. 235. xiv, 150p. 26 cm blue hardcover binding with gilt on spine and front board in a 27 cm slipcase. Signed by Charles Dickey, Donald Shoffstall, and Jim Rikhoff, President, NSFL. Foreword by Jim Rikhoff. Illustrated by Donald Shoffstall. Small nick in edge of slipcase. A few small marks to book covers.

Toronto: Proguide Publishing, nd. Softcover. Near fine. 242 p. 28 cm. B&w illustrations.

Lakewood, CA: California Cuties, 1971. Staplebound. Fair. [8 p.]. 28 cm. Player photos in b&w, tinted blue to match text. Staplebound booklet. Soiling to covers and chip from top near spine. Signed by "Gert" on front cover. Some spotting to interior. Includes team photo with signatures of every player. Twenty-Third Season program of "The World's Funniest Softball Team" for 1971. Gives team history, short bios.

Saul, Gloucestershire: Standfast Press, 1976. Hardcover. Very good/good +. The Standfast Sporting Library. 303 pp. 30 cm. Illustrated by Michael Lyne, Mary Browning, John Tickner and Leslie Benenson in colour and b&w. Green cloth hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket rubbed, with small tears, small stains to back. Back cover of cloth stained. An essential book on the subject. Includes chapters on The National Coursing Club, training, Coursing in Ireland and America, Saluki Coursing Club, various hounds, and Coursing in Art. Foreword by Earl Fitzwilliam, introduction by Marcus Kimball. Appendices. Bibliography. Tucked inside is a pamphlet called A Greyhound in the Home.

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. As new. 1000-copy slipcased edition. This copy is no. 235. An African Safari Heritage Book. xvii, 164p. 22 cm in 22.5 cm slipcase. Red hardcover binding with gold gilt on front board and spine. Signed by Brian Herne and Jim Rikhoff, President, NSFL. Foreword by Rudolph Sand. Includes a portfolio insert of numerous b&w photographs. No discernible wear.

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1929. Hardcover. Near fine. 373 p. 24 cm. 106 full page illustrations, most in b&w, with a colour frontispiece. Leather binding with gold impressing. Top edge gilt. Inscribed by the author to Mr. J. E. Atkinson in 1934. Intro by Claudius Gregory. Topics include the London (Ontario) Hunt in 1883, fox hunting at Toronto, side saddle days, Sir Adam Beck, Sir Clifford Sifton, steeplechasing, sporting horses, hunter trials and horse shows, sporting country homes, etc.

Clinton, NJ: The Amwell Press, 1985. Hardcover. As new. 1,000 copies published by The Amwell Press for The National Sporting Fraternity Limited as the 15th & 16th books in its African Hunt Heritage Collection. These are copies no. 235, signed by Margaret Kummerfeldt and Jim Rikhoff, President of NSFL. 2 vols.: xvii, 374; xvii, 305 p. 24 cm burgundy hardcovers in 25 cm black slipcase. All edges gilt. Numerous b&w illustrations by the author and Martin Johnson. Foreword by Margaret Percival Kummerfeldt. Originally published 1924 and 1928. The author writes of lions, lion hunting, leopards, cheetahs, hunting dogs, hyenas, elephants, rhinos, hippos, buffalo, giraffe, swine, zebra, photographing game, primates, waterbuck, wildebeest, jackals, crocodile, snakes, disease and drought, war and game, etc.

Munchen: Braun & Schneider, nd. ca. 1880. Kleine Ausgabe. Hardcover. Fair. 160 p. 28 cm. B&w line drawings on every page. Cloth spine with paper covered boards. Some soiling to exterior, corners worn, small holes in spine cloth, hinges cracked internally. Some thumbing and foxing to interior. German text.

E. P. Dutton, 1978. Hardcover. Near fine/Fair. viii, 166 p. 24 cm. B&w line drawings. Quarter cream cloth with brown paper boards. In mylar-covered dustjacket with chips and tears. Silver ribbon is not attached. Inscribed by Hill on half title.

Peterborough, 1982. Softcover. Good. 310 p. 30 cm. B&w and colour drawings. Light wear and soiling. Colour pages have ink notes and underlining. Ink signature on first leaf.

Clinton, NJ: The Amwell Press, 1985. Hardcover. As new. 1,000 copies published by The Amwell Press for The National Sporting Fraternity Limited, of which this is no. 235, signed by Hartley and Jim Rikhoff, President of NSFL. An African Hunting Heritage Book. ix, 241 p. 23.5 cm dark blue hardcover in 24 cm slipcase. All edges gilt. Includes 34 b&w photographs.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1907. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. xxv, 413 p. 23 cm. 73 b&w illustrations and one colour fold-out map of Ceylon. Green cloth with gold lettering. Moderate soiling to boards and small tears at spine ends. Corners bumped. Ink signatures to front endpapers. Some spotting throughout. Last page and map are detached and torn. Small label on rear pastedown. The author hunted everything in Ceylon, from trout to elephants.

Clinton, NJ: The Amwell Press, 1986. Hardcover. As new. 1,000 copies published by The Amwell Press for The National Sporting Fraternity Limited. Signed by Lamar Underwood, Jere Williamson and Jim Rikhoff, President, NSFL. This is No. 235. xiii, 550 p. 24 cm green faux leather book in 25 cm green slipcase. Colour frontispiece, title vignette, 20 b&w line drawings. Anthology includes such writers as Charley Dickey, Nash Buickingham, William Faulkner, Theodore Roosevelt, Havilah Babcock, Jim Rikhoff, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, etc. The authors hunt doves, turkeys, waterfowl, deer, and quail.

Tralee: The Kerryman Ltd., nd. Introduction dated 1954. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. xvi, 222 p. 23 cm. Frontispiece and 7 other b&w plates. Brown cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has creases and light wear, some spots and rubbing. Scratch on rear cover of book. A few spots on top edge. Clean neat interior. Foreword by Lt.-Col. Harry Llewellyn, Olympic gold medallist.

London: T. N. Foulis, 1910. Eighth edition, rewritten and enlarged. Hardcover. Good. xiii, 467, xvii p. 23 cm. B&w photo plates mounted on brown card interspersed throughout text. Brown cloth with b&w photo pasted on front board. Boards stained, spine ends softened, corners bumped. Darkening to endpapers. Illustration opposite p. 174 is loosening. Offsetting to tissue guards. Chapters by Lord Malise Graham, Capt. H. Shaw Kennedy, Dr. Charles Reid, H. Burn-Murdoch, P. D. Malloch, F. G. Aflalo, Henry Lamond, Tom Speedy.

ca. 1901. Good +. Originally an editorial in Toronto Mail and Empire, February 14th, 1901. One 19 cm broadside. Small stain at bottom and some tiny tears and creases to edges. An editorial that appeared in the Toronto Mail and Empire, Feb. 14, 1901, praising new game hunting laws in Bruce County's Indian Peninsula and advocating similar measures elsewhere. The writer is against the hunting of deer in open water.

1901. Good. 19 cm one-sided leaflet. Some soiling to edges and rear. An editorial that appeared in the Toronto Mail and Empire, Feb. 14, 1901, praising new game hunting laws in Bruce County's Indian Peninsula and advocating similar measures elsewhere. The writer is against the hunting of deer in open water.

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1984. Hardcover. Fine. 1000 copy slipcased edition. This copy is no. 235. Signed by Bradford O'Connor and Jim Rikhoff, President, NSFL. xv, 247p. 23.5cm burgundy with black speckling hardcover binding. Gilt on spine and boards in a 24.5 cm slipcase. Includes 54 b&w photos from the O'Connor family archives as plate inserts in middle of text. Foreword by Bradford O'Connor.