A Shikari (40 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Ink mark on bottom edge, else pages clean; binding tight; minor wear to covers. 316 pages. Illustrated. Size: 6" x 9".

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine +. First Thus. Agnes Elsie Diana Thorpe, a.k.a. Widow Herbert, writes this 316 page memoir of Alaska hunting - circa 1908- alongside an anonymous character A. Shikari - otherwise known as The Leader. She and a female companion, Cicely, hunt bears, caribou, moose , Dall sheep, and ptarmigan. Read more about: Pitka Charley, Ales Gigas, Cassiar Gold, Yakutat, Butte City, topeks and Cape Rodgnof. Cond : Paper wrapper is two tone green with burgundy decoration. The front cover illustration is taken from the frontispiece photo of the author in her hunting parka - circa 1908. Spine corner and edges are all sharp. No names, marks, creases, nor tears. Binding tight, colours bright. Clean and bright. Quote (p. 303) : As we lay prone, waiting for the chance King Circumstance might deign to accord us, the giant deer emerged from the water. We could not see, but we could hear him. Breathlessly we waited, and across the flume of open country ahead of us, some hundred and fifty ._._._. .". B/W Photographs (illustrator).…

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Rebound library copy (green buckram, gilt titles and rules) with usual marks. Boards rubbed. 1909 Hard Cover. xii, 316 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece photographic plates (29 total). Memoirs of a female-led big game hunting expedition in Alaska. Arctic Bibliography 7007: "Story , by a popular writer of travel books, of hunting big game on Kodiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula.…

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Camden, SC: The Premier Press, 1997. Number 314 of a limited edition of 3000 copies. Rich crimson red leather printed in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, attached ribbon bookmark. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread, tight binding, clean pages, no names or other markings. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Facsimile Reprint. 316pp. Illustrated. Full maroon leather binding with gilt lettering and decoration. 4 raised spine bands. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Sewn-in red marker ribbon. This is an unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 3000 copies.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 16 pages of ads. Rubbing minor tears to head and foot of spine board.

XII/316 S./pp., Abbildungen auf Tafeln/illustrations on plates, Originalleineneinband (publisher's cloth binding), Einband etwas fleckig/binding somewhat stained, Sprache: englisch.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Condition: New.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Detection of Plant Viruses | Advanced Techniques | Aflaq Hamid (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Springer Protocols Handbooks | xiv | Englisch | 2026 | Springer | EAN 9781071643921 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. Contains numerous photographs/illustrations. No markings apart from general foxing to pages. Contains 316 pages plus catalogue. May require additional postage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Number 2810 of 3000. Pages clean & bright; binding tight; very minor wear to covers; moderate edgewear to glassine dustjacket. 320 pages. Illustrated. We also carry other volumes in the Premier Collection. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".

hardcover. Condition: very good(-). Illus. xii, 316pp. plus publisher's ads. 8vo, green cloth, spine worn and repaired, cloth lightly soiled. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1909. Narrative of a hunting trip to Alaska by a English women and her guide.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Second Edition. With 29 Photographs. INSCRIBED and DATED (March 1916) by Agnes Herbert on second white page. Very Good Minus: green covers with gilt title, author name and embossed gold ram's head on front cover. Gilt title, author's names & publisher on spine. Cover worn on edges, corners and spine ends. Former owner bookplate on front pastedown. Pages and front foredge age spotted. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages; Signed by Author. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hunting of Gonzales - An adventure of Senor Ramon Torres, a Captain of Rurales - the famous mounted police of Mexico; Adrift on an Ice-Floe - Lieut. Commander Fitzhugh Green provides a photo-illustrated account of the amazing fashion in which a primitive Eskimo extricated himself from a predicament which would assuredly spelt death for a white man; An Englishwoman in Upper Egypt - Part II - Winifred S. Blackman's photo-illustrated account of the three winters she spent with the local people of Upper Egypt; Fraser's Price - The tale of an angered railroad engineer; The Three Angleteers - Part V (conclusion) of the trouble and adventures of three English wanderers in Constantinople and Athens; "Remember the Mortons" - A stirring story of an episode in the Matabele rebellion of 1895; Salvage Extraordinary - An Indian planter's account of an odd affair on the Brahmaputra River in Assam, including photo of five elephants pushing a stranded steamer; The Head-Hunters of Sepik - Part III - Beatrice Grimshaw explored the Sepik River of New Guinea and dealt with the local cannibals - article with photos; Where Everyone is Wealthy - The Osage Indians of Oklahoma come up with the strangest ways to divest themselves of their wealth earned from local oil - article with photos; "Grip" and I - Part III - Count Nils Cronstedt spares a condemned bull-terrier which rewards him by saving him multiple times while he served in West Africa as Commander of H.M.S. Heron and Assistant Marine Superintendant in Northern Nigeria; "Old White Face" - Allen Borders of Montana relates a terrifying cougar experience; To Afghanistan in Disguise - Part III - The story of a British officer's remarkable journey - disguised as an Oriental - across a large part of India and finally into forbidden Afghanistan and beyond, living among the natives; "Captain Jed" - a tale of the whalers of New Bedford, MA, involving the "Cap'n Jed" and the "Wanderer" - very few men have ever fought a 'right' whale single-handed and lived to tell the tale; Python and Lion in Nyassaland - after visiting a witch-doctor for poisoning the author is attacked first by a great python, then a lion!; Photo of a Manchurian man 7 feet and 3 inches tall; Photo of a veritable forest of masts at Lowestoft, the Suffolk fishing port, during the height of herring season; and more. 88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Wood, Stanley, L.; Elcock, Howard; Abbey, S.; Woodville, R. Caton; De Walton, John; Prater, Ernest; Reynolds, Warwick; Woodville, R. Caton; York, W.G.; Somerfield, T. (illustrator).…

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.