Temple Perkins (24 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near Fine. 1st edition. 2006, first edition. Very Good. 8vo, 192 pp. Illustrated with full color photographs. Bound in green cloth with full color dust jacket. Dust jacket in Near Fine condition, unmarked. Book has a very slight waviness to the text block, otherwise Very Good. Signed by author on…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Black cloth with gilt spine titles; 8vo; 271 pp; illustrated with b/w photos plus 2 maps; color pictorial dust jacket. Stories of hunting elephant, both for conservation and also sport. The author was perhaps one of the most famous big-game wardens in the worl…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Spine cover sun-toned. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; 319 p. : front. (port.) plates. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Westminster Ab…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Spine cover sun-toned. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; 319 p. : front. (port.) plates. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Westminster Ab…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd reprint, the same year as the first edition. Preface by Col Sir James Sleeman. 271pp. Green cloth covered boards, the title faded to the spine. 40 b + w photographs. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Memoirs of many years of big game hunting in Ugan…

Montbel "Les aventuriers voyageurs", 2009 grand In/8, broché, couverture illustrée en couleur. 381 pages. "Arrivé en Ouganda en 1919, Temple-Perkins chassera durant toute sa carrière dans l'administration coloniale britannique. Si son gibier de prédilection est l'éléphant - qui prolifère et dévaste les cultures - il ne néglige p…

271 pages, maps, 40 illustrations : author spent 35 years in East Africa and was regarded as the most daring of big game hunters. Czech page 280 "He relates numerous hunting adventures . . aroung Lake George. He also details his successful hunt after white rhinocerous"; hardback, vg vg dw east africa kenya uganda big game huntin…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 1st edition. The dust jacket is edge worn, has some small edge tears, chipped and marked. The boards are slightly edge worn. Tanning. It is in very good condition, excellent binding. MK. (r*fh). Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery serv…

Wraps. Condition: Very Good-. Vol. CXLVIII, No. 4. Coverart by Modest Stein for "Jungle Test" (pt. 1 of 5) by Kenneth Perkins. Includes "The Ledbury Fist" (pt. 2 of 4) by Elizabeth York Miller; "Good Looking and Rich" (pt. 3 of 6) by Edgar Franklin; "Tarzan and the Golden Lion" (pt. 6 of 7) by Edgar Rice Burroughs; "The Free Tra…

REPRINT, SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 271pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & fading to spine extrems, sl bruising to board corners, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor general soiling throughout) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping/tearing t…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Very good condition in fair price clipped dust jacket. The book is bumped to the corners and head and tail of the spine. Free from any internal markings or inscriptions, previous owners sticker to front fly leaf. The dust jacket is rather tatty and torn, particularly s…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. London: Andrew Melrose Ltd., 1953. First edition, third printing. Good/fair. Dedicated and signed by the author, scarce thus. D.j. with significant loss to top of spine and front cover, splits and minor losses, boards stained, contents largely clean and binding sound. Sign…

Condition: Good. Inscribed by the author. A story of hunting, drama and adventures in Ugana. Temple-Perkins was regarded as one of the most famous and experienced big-game wardens in the world. With 40 b&w illustrations. some foxing to top edges. 271 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. Reprint. Condition: Good. Dust jacket:…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Big Game Hunting, especially trophy elephants in Uganda and Tanganyika by one of the famous and respected Game Wardens and a great elephant hunter. Temple Perkins was a crack shot. His many accounts includes a safari with Colonel Jim Corbett of Kumao…

London: Andrew Melrose. 1955. 8vo. Original cloth and wrapper; pp. xii, 271, 40 photographic plates; a little chipping to dustwrapper at head of spine, internally very fresh, very good indeed.Third printing inscribed by the author to title page. A vigorous defence of elephant hunting as a necessary conservation activity is follo…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1920 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd repri…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine l…