Illustrations by Joseph Vance
First edition: 479 pages, map, 8 colour plates, numerous black and white illustrations, green pictorial cloth over bevelled boards, titled gilt on the upper cover and spine, a fine copy in the matching slipcase.
The limitations page reads: One thousand copies of the first edition have been printed. This numbered and signed edition is the eleventh book in the Classics in African Hunting Series. This is copy number 683 signed by the author and the illustrator.
Czech (Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 -1999, page 244 -245: An anthology of hunting stories on all manner of game in Ethiopia including elephant, wallia ibex, lions etc., mostly culled from famous books by Samuel Baker, Alfred Neumann, and others, but also more modern less well known stories by the likes of John Brandt, Craig Boddington, Brian Duckworh, Rudolph sand, Peter Capstick etc.
- Overall Condition: A fine copy
- Size: 4to (300 x220mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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