Big Game Shooting on the Equator...With an Introduction By Sir Charles Norton Eliot

Big Game Shooting on the Equator...With an Introduction By Sir Charles Norton Eliot...77 illustrations reproduced From Photographs.

London & New York: John Lane, 1908. Octavo. Pp. [1-]7-285[-286]. Title printed in red and black, front blank, half-title. Half-tone  frontispiece, 77 halftone plates on 45 leaves. (Occasional spotting, but generally very clean).

Original green cloth, dark green ruled boreder to the upper cover and spine, lettered in gilt within  the borders,  top edges of the book-block gilded, the other edges uncut. (Head and foot of spine bumped, the spine somewhat discoloured [see images])

Overall: a better than average copy of the first edition.  ‘Dickinson’s approach is systematic, describing the haunts of each major species of wild game in East Africa including lion, kudu, oryx, eland, and other plains game, particularly near Guaso Nyiro and the River Tana. There is an excellent chapter on stalking buffalo accompanied by some marvelous photos of the author hunting a wounded buffalo in the swamp regions near lakes Solai and Baringo.’ (Czech. An annotated Bibliography of African Big Game hunting Books, 1785 to 1950, page 48).