Search Results: the wanderings of an elephant hunter by wdm bell

Briar Patch Press, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good. A very nice copy in Near Fine condition. Red with gold gilt design, lettering and page edges. Binding firm, interior clean and unmarked. Small bookplate on ffep. 1987 Reprint Edition.

Neville Spearman, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reprint. The jacket is a little shelf rubbed, there is a 2cm chip on the back top corner and 3 closed tears. The jacket spine is sunned and the edges a bit frayed. It presents well is cellophane. The boards are clean and handsome, they are slightly edge worn. There are no inscriptions, and the pages within are crisp, clean and tightly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Long Beach.: Safari Press., 2002. First Safari Press edition. Reprint of the 1923 edition.. Black textured cloth, gilt spine title.. Fine in a fine dust jacket.. 26x19 cm.. weight: 2.0 lb. 75 pages of illustrations.

Leather bound. Briar Patch Press, 1987, part of their African Collection. Red leather covers with gold gilt decoration on front and spine, ribbed spine, gilt edges with bound in ribbon. Square spine, clean crisp pages, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Covers are clean, corners are unworn.

London: Neville Spearman, 1981. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 187 pp, ill. Reprint of a classic. A nice reprint. Former owner's name written 3 places in front, otherwise really near fine in like jacket.

1958. Second Edition. London, Neville Spearman & The Holland Press, 1958. 18 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, VII, 188 pages. 58 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher's original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine is faded. Front board carries faint hint of staining. Some very occasional light spotting to an otherwise bright and clean interior with sharp corners. Includes, for example, the following: Hunting the Big Bull Elephant / The Brain Shot at Elephant / African 'Medicine' or Witchcraft and Its Bearing on Sport / Dabossa / Hunting in Liberia / The Ascent of the Bahr Aouck / Rifles etc. Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell (8 September 1880 – 30 June 1954), known as Karamojo Bell, was a Scottish adventurer, big game hunter in East Africa, soldier, decorated fighter pilot, sailor, writer, and painter. Famous as one of the most successful ivory hunters of his time, Bell was an advocate of accurate shot… Read More

Sudbury, Suffolk, UK: Neville Spearman. Bound in half black leather, with faux marbled boards repeated on both sets of endpapers, this dated 1981 Facsimile Reprint is Fine in VG black cloth custom-made slipcase.Bright gilt titles and Elephant's head outline illustration to spine, with raised bands and horizontal gilt decorative lines. V11/188pp with 16 Chapters and 57 Sketches by the Author as in the 1923 First Edition. Hardcover book in Fine condition, slipcase minmal rubbing at front edges, where book is inserted . Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint. 1981.

Country Life, Ltd. London. Very Good. 1923. First Edition. A slight stain at the top front of the buckram. Wear on the bottom front corner of the spine. The boards are worn around the edges. Bell's card in laid on the fep. .