Hunting in Africa
by Hibben, Frank C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Robert Hale. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1964). Hardcover. Previous owner's signature. Some spots of foxing to page edges. Dust-jacket with small tears and chips at corners and at ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First UK edition (previously published in the US in 1962). 191 pages + 21 illustrations on 6 plate leaves. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 214 x 136mm. "The author takes us with him as he tracks lions in the bush and a herd of dangerous Cape buffalo; baits the vicious leopard; dodges the stupid rhino and barely escape an elephant stampede. We follow the difficult paths of rare gazelles and antelopes - the forest sitatunga, called the 'ghost of the forest', the dibitag, which inhabits the arid stretches of East Africa; and Nile lechwe, which lives in inaccessible swamps; and we also venture into the treacherous Sahara for the addax." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18905
- Title
- Hunting in Africa
- Author
- Hibben, Frank C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- Robert Hale
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1964)
- Keywords
- Hunting Shooting Big Game Elephant Rhino Lion
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...