A HUNTER'S WANDERINGS IN AFRICA. (Perhaps the most famous of all hunting books)

First Edition: 455 pages, wood engraved frontispiece - A narrow escape; Mashuna Land, September 17, 1878, folding map torn at the first fold, 17 engraved plates, half brown leather rebacked preserving the remnants of the original back strip, marbled paper sides which are worn around the edges, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Thomas Gordon Duff (a prominent Scottish landowner and bibliophile) on the front paste-down endpaper, small stamp of a previous owner at the head of the title page.

Czech (Dr Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 to 1999, page 251: One of the most often reprinted African big game book titles, the first four are the most sought after. Selous travelled through Bechuanaland and Matabeleland with numerous hunting episodes after lion, black rhino, buffalo and elephant particularly in the Linquasi Valley. In the second half of the book he trekked across the Zambesi with a long hunt for elephant in Mashonaland. Throughout the text are descriptions of a wide variety of game bagged including hippo, sable, kudu. Eland and other antelope species. A true classic of the African sporting field.

Taylor (Stephen): The Mighty Nimrod. The author's first book A Hunter's Wanderings was an immediate success and the first edition of 1000 copies sold out within a year. The first edition of perhaps the most famous of all hunting books.