Glossop Captain B R M (6 results)

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 9 Pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 17 x 25 cms. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Category: Badminton Magazine; Inventory No: 194943. Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 11 Pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 17 x 25 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Badminton Magazine; Inventory No: 194968. Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sporting Trips of A Subaltern. By Captain B. R. M. Glossop. Published by Harper & Brothers in 1906. A First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 9 x 5 3/4 inches or 23 x 15 cms. Page number:241. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and the image of an antelopes head on the front. Deckle edge pages. Contents include hunting trips in India and Africa with chapters entitled Shoots Around A Hill Station in The Himalyas; Buck and Boar Round Meerut; Three Lions Before Breakfast; Rhino, And How Not To Shoot Them and A Borgu Leopard. 26 photographs illustrate the text. Condition: Very Good. The cover is quite worn and bumped and has been marked by a Boots library sticker. A library sticker is also on the last end paper. The spine is somewhat faded and the corners bumped. The binding is somewhat lose with one crack in the hinge, but the whole remains esentially sound. The pages, but for occasional marks and small flaws, also a note in pencil that refers to the size of a bull, are clean and un-thumbed. A previous owners name, her address and a date are written on the first end paper. there is no dust jacket. A heavy book. Additional postage may be necessary if it is to be posted outside the U.K.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Good only copy in blue cloth with gold decorated covers. (Dampstaining to edges of cloth. Previous owner's bookplate on paste-down & inked signature on half-title. Corners bumped. Light fraying at spine ends. ) Hunting memoir of India under the Raj. Numerous illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. First. 246 pp. ill. Tiger hunting in India, then hunting other game in the hill and jungle country of the Asian subcontinent. Then to Africa for lions, LIONS, and more lions in Somaliland (then known to offer some of the best lion hunting in Africa) as well as other game (roan, rhino) in Eastern Africa. Scarce title. VG in original blind stamped cloth. Very minor foxing first few pages otherwise contents very clean. Cover dull looking, see website image.

1st Edn,. xii 245 pages, 2 pages advs, frontis and 23 plates from photographs, some foxing to contents, publisher's blue cloth, blind stamped title and antelope head to upper board. The author hunted lion, gazelle, oryx, rhino etc in Africa, goral, karkur, sekow and bear in India with some pig sticking and other game with a spear. he failed to bag a tiger. Czech Africa 108, India 87.