Big Bore (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. New edition. Wear on top and bottom of covers; dent on top edge of cover. Rebacked, tear to map, end paper renewed; 7.25 x 5.25 x 1"; 269 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. New Edition. xv, 269pp, folding map in good order, tables, appends inc. rules, tarrifs, areasdiary pages, etc. The book is good with browning to free eps, wrapper is sugar paper, rubbed and worn with small missings and archival tape repairs. 700g.

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1924). (ND) 1924 new edition. Small 8vo (124 x 186mm). Ppxx,269,xiii[ads]. Advertisements to rear. Half bound in brown leather, black paper-covered boards. Hinges slightly tender, slight foxing, lacks map, good only. Workmanlike, contemporary half leather binding, probably Indian. Titles to spine. "This book has been compiled with the special object of assisting sportsmen visiting these hills to know, when, where, and how to get at game. Information with regard to record heads shot in the Nilgiris, the chief shooting centres, particulars of game to be found in various parts, list of Travellers' bungalows, motorable roads, and bridle-paths, showing distances, etc. has been furnished which should be of great help. .I have also given particulars concerning some adjoining districts which hold good shooting grounds, with a brief summary also of one or two other places which should be of use to sportsmen in general." "This handbook for sportsmen hunting in the Nilgiris region features descriptions of tiger, panther, and other game, .measuring tiger, .hunting crocodile, hiring shikaris, choosing rifles, and the preservation of trophies. Another hunter with the pseudonym of '.405' provides a chapter on shooting cheetal and bison, while Edmund Ball contributes a segment on tiger hunting." .

8vo., with large folding map (one fold neatly repaired on inner surface), neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; grey-green cloth, upper board lettered in black, neatly rebacked in faux-vellum to style, new printed label, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Arthur Probsthain on front paste-down, and 12pp of trade advsertisements bound in at end. EXTREMELY SCARCE. Czech, p.26.