Five Years Hunters Life Far Interior South Africa, First Edition (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Vol 2 only of 2, discoloration to original green cloth covers, gilt spine title still readable, f/o name in pencil on tp, ads in rear dated February 1852., 1st edn, usual foxing, engraved tp by prominent engraver William Roberts.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First American Edition. A solid set with worn covers and foxing. Volume II has a stain from the top edge that affects the first 25 pages or so; the backstrip of Vol I has some chipping and tearing. ; Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback - volume two only of a two volume set, 1950, with no jacket as issued. In overall good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards slightly rubbed with chips to cloth at spine head and tail, and slight crack to lower front spine fold. Binding tight and appears little read - hinges sound. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text and illustrations (with tissue-paper guards) bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Small octavo, 2 volumes, 326pp., 303pp. Illustrated half-titles retained. A very good set bound in later 3/5 red morocco and red cloth. Spines sunned, some rubbing/drying to the joints. Some waviness and very mild foxing to the pages blocks, but the contents clean and sound. It seems that the UK edition contained 13 plates, none of which are present in this copy, nor in other examples of the American edition that we've encountered.

Condition: Fair. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. 1st U.S. edition. Volume 1. Sm 8vo. Disbound hardcover. Poor book or binding copy. Disbound: lacking boards and spine. Dampstained. Pencil drawing on rear endpage. (Hunting, South Africa) Inquire if you need further information.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. After a military career, Cumming took to Africa, where he hunted springbok, gemsbok, oryx, wildebeest, roan, kudu, buffalo, rhinoceros, eland, elephants, lions & hippopotami; also encountering Dr. Livingstone, with, we presume, no shots fired. "One of the classics of African big game hunting and exploration.a necessary title in the big game library." (Czech, page 43) Two volume set, hardcover, original blue cloth, gilt titling. Light wear, corners bumped; small insect holes in the outer hinges; some foxing & minor staining inside. Text clean; 326, 303 pages + 8 pages publishers ads; illustrated half-titles.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [.] With Notices of the Native tribes, and Anecdotes of the Chase. Small 8vo. Hardcover. In Two Volumes. Vol 1. pp. 386. Vol 2. pp. 370. First Edition. In very good condition. Professionally rebacked. Brown cloth binding with gilt illustration on the cover and gilt title on the spine. Minor wear to cover such as bumping on the corners and faint scuffs and marks; spines are torn in places particularly at top and bottom. Vol 2. has a black ink smudge on the cover and both volumes have faded patches on the back boards. Pages themselves are clean and unmarked with light foxing and faint watermarks. Very few pencil annotations. These copies previously belonged to Edmund Loder, an English aristocrat, landowner and plantsman. His book-plates appear on the front end-papers. Protective tissue over frontispiece in Vol 2. Complete with all plates including the map at the end of Vol 1. Roualeyn Gordon Cumming was a Scottish traveler and sportsman, known as the "lion hunter". The story of his exploits are vividly told in this book. David Livingstone, who furnished Gordon-Cumming with most of his native guides, wrote: 'I have no hesitation in saying that Mr. Cumming's book conveys a truthful idea of South African hunting' (Missionary Travels, chap. vii.).

2 volumes. Scarce First Edition. With a frontispiece and vignette title page in each volume, and 13 additional plates including a map, a total of 17 illustrations as called for. 8vo, bound in contemporary three quarter dark-rose calf over marbled boards by Bosworth and Harrison. The spines with gilt stippled and ruled raised bands between gilt framed compartments with elegant corner-pieces, additional gilt ruling at the tips, one compartment with morocco labels gilt lined and lettered xvi , 386; x, 370. A handsome, clean and attractive set, the text still quite bright with only occasional minor evidence of foxing, very solid and sturdy, bindings tight and strong. The spines lightly mellowed as to be expected, the gilt is very vivid and bright, the calf with a little rubbing or eveidence of age. FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE CORNERSTONE BOOKS ON AFRICAN EXPLORATION AND HUNTING. ".I was the first to penetrate into the interior of the Bamangwato country, and.my axe and spade pioneered the way, which others have since followed" (- from the introduction). This lively and entertaining book was very successful in its time and made the author "the lion of the season." Cumming was a reknown and experienced sportsman whose thirst for adventure could only be somewhat slaked in the unexplored wilds of the African continent. This book is an account of his adventures hunting in the "untrodden wilds" of South Africa.