First US Edition: 270 pages, frontispiece, 10 black & white photographic plates, original light brown cloth titled in green on the spine and decorated with a spear on the upper cover, a good copy.
Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, page 175, ‘The represents an accumulation of letters spanning thirty years the author received from big game hunters including F.C. Selous, C.H. Stigand, R.J. Cunninghame, T.A. Barns, Martin Ryan, Alfred E. Pease, J. Stevenson Hamilton, J.A. Hunter, Abel Chapman and many others.’
- Size: 8vo (220 x 140 mm)