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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia | being a narrative of events in Matabeleland both before and during the recent native insurrection up to the date of the disbandment of the Bulawayo field force | Frederick C. Selous | Taschenbuch | 352 S. | Englisch | 2017 | hansebooks | EAN 9783337378264 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Hansebooks GmbH, Trakehner Weg 52, 22844 Norderstedt, gb[at]hansebooks[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2000). 2000 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 245mm). Ppxiv,187. B/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Stone-grey pictorial cloth. Edition limited to 1000 signed and numbered copies. Fine in slipcase. Signed by Jim Casada. One of an edition limited to 1,000 copies. Part I is a selection of writings by Selous. Part II comprises articles about him written by his friends. Volume 37 in the Classics in African Hunting Series. .

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 9 x 6", pict grey cloth, 276pp, former owner's bookplate on front fly else a nice, clean copy in a lightly used slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #118), SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, JAMES A. CASADA.

Zustand: Fine. Heavy set, will require extra shipping. weight: 31.2 lb. Fine in near fine slipcases. 22.5x14 cm. collation not provided Full brown leather, red spine labels, gilt spine titles, top edges gilt, decorative endpapers, in matching leather slipcases.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. 32p octavo, 32 pages of news clippings of obituaries from the UK and Africa. Selous, author of books on hunting he's most famous for "Travel & Adventure in South-East Africa.(1893). He hunted with Teddy Roosevelt. On Jan 4 1917 at the age of 65 he was killed fighting the Germans in East Africa. The octavo album is bound in green cloth and labeled "Press Cuttings" on the spine. Laid in is an a.l.s. ( hand written letter) from Selous to Mr Coplles Dec 31st 1900. In the letter Selous tells the reader that he doesn't want to discuss his hunting trip in Newfoundland because it was sopoor. "only saw one good Stag". "The westher was nearly always bad and very few of my photographs came out". "I now know where to go." He wants to write about Newfoundland after his next trip. 12mo, fine, folded. WITH Dollman, J G ., Catalogue of the Selous Collection of Big Game in the British Museum(Natural History). London, British Museum 1921. First edition, octavo, 112p frontispiece. Cover warped, spotted, bookplate.

1st Edn. xiv -187 pp., illustrated in b/w from photographs, publishers' grey cloth titled in black with portrait of Selous to the upper cover in slipcase. A fine copy, limited to 1000 copies signed and numbered (28) by James Casada. Part I is a selection of writings by Selous. Part II comprises articles about him written by his friends.

2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. He begins by informing the unnamed recipient that the reason for the delay in answering his letter is that Selous has 'just returned to this country from a trip to Hungary'. For his part, Selous will be 'very pleased if you will quote anything you like from my book, "Travel and Adventure in S. E. Africa". He presumes that 'the publishers, to whom the book I suppose really belongs, will have no objection either, as to quote any passage from a book is to call attention to the book itself, which may result in the sale of a copy'.

Seven Volumes. Hardbacks, approx 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Uniformly bound in dark blue calf leather and blue cloth to boards, with raised banding, gilt paneled decorations and lettering to spines. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In very good conditions. Some fading to spines, bump to top end of spine on ?Hunters? Wanderings.? Three volumes with rubbing/soiling to front boards. Bookplates to front endpapers ?David M. Ritchie.? One or two minor handling marks and a couple of minor foxing spots else very good clean and tight copies. Else a very good clean and tight set. With B&W illustrations by Smit, Whymper & others. Includes Maps and folding plates. A Hunter?s Wanderings In Africa, 1881; Travels & Adventures in South-East Africa, 1893; Sunshine & Storm in Rhodesia, 1896; Sport & Travel (1901 reprint); Hunting Trips in British N. America, 1907; African Nature Notes, 1908; Life of Frederick C. Selous, 1918.