Kenya by Editor, Signed (3 results)

#270 of a limited edition of 1000 copies SIGNED BY EDITOR JIM RIKHOFF. Issued as the twenty-seventh volume in Amwell Press' African Hunting Heritage Collection. No slipcase, i.e. lacking. No dust jacket as issued. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 16.25cm. [2], i-xxiv, 1-637 pages plus unpaged plates. Bright red textured leather (imitating a game animal skin); vibrant gilt stamping to spine and both boards; slight rubbing/soiling to front board; stronger soiling and flaked gilt marks to rear board caused by previous light adhesion to an adjacent book on a shelf (henceforth called Easton Press adhesionitis as that was its unfortunate shelfmate). All edges gilt; red silk moire endpapers; sewn-in red silk ribbon page marker. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. Limitation statement, copy#, and ink signature of editor-compiler-publisher Jim Rikhoff on special unpaged leaf preceding frontispiece. Published by Amwell Press for The National Sporting Fraternity Limited as the twenty-seventh volume in its African Hunting Heritage Collection. Features contributions by Errol Trzebinski, Col. Richard Meinertzhagen, J.H. Patterson, Theodore Roosevelt, A. Blayney Percival [Arthur Blayney Percival], Arthur H. Neumann, Martin Johnson, J.A. Hunter, Elspeth Huxley, Beryl Markham, Kermit Roosevelt, Joy Adamson, Jack O'Connor, Craig Boddington, Gene Hill, et al. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 4 pounds (1.81 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {Amwell_Shelf#2}.

636 pages. The twenty-seventh volume in the African Hunting Heritage Collection. #143 OF A LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY JIM RIKHOFF, EDITOR AND PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL SPORTING FRATERNITY LIMITED. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN RED LEATHER WITH GOLD STAMPING ON THE COVERS AND SPINE. GILT EDGED, SILK MARKING RIBBON AND FANCY END PAPERS. IN A STURDY SLIPCASE. Original color plates and line drawings by Guy Coheleach. The book is an Anthology of 48 hunting stories in Kenya, covering all hunting periods from the earliest days till the closure of hunting in 1977. Contains contributions by men who are legends in the big game hunting field. among others, Meinertzhagen, Patterson, Roosevelt, Percival, Neumann, Sutton, Hunter, Dyer, Wincza, Hibben, Collins, Batten, O'Connor, Herne, Coogan, Ommanney and many others. Lots of good reading. Both the Book and the Slipcase are in Very Fine As New condition.

8vo. pp. [2], xxiii, 636, [1]. gilt-paneled leatherette, red silk endleaves. First Edition, Limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by the author and Jim Rikhoff, president of the NSFL.