1. Baden-Powell, Lord [Robert] / [Chief Scout].

More Sketches of Kenya.

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1940. 15.5 cm x 20 cm. 151 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cream cloth] with lettering and pictorials on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Board corners bumped. Foxing to interior, but otherwise bright and clean. Binding is strong and firm and square.

2. Bell, W.D.M.

The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter.

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.

3. Du Chaillu, Paul.

My Apingi Kingdom: With Life in the Great Sahara. And Sketches of the Chase of the Ostrich, Hyena, &c. Numerous Engravings.

New York, Harper & Brothers, no year (c.1870). 12.5 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece with tissueguard, VIII, 254 pages. 33 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine. Gilt pictoral on front board. Blind stamp to rear board. Coloured pastedowns and endpapers. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean with sharp corners. Tissue guard in very good condition. Preowner details on front endpaper: “James Hill – Westell Farm – Kewell, Read 1916”.

4. Dugmore, A. Radclyffe,

The Vast Sudan [With Notes on the Distribution, Appearance, Peculiarities and Habits of the Game of the Sudan (Water-buck, Black Rhinoceros, Buffalo, Reedbuck, Hartebeest etc.) / With a List of the More important Animals found in the Sudan – Some of the More Important Birds Found in the Sudan].

London, Arrowsmith, 1924. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, 312 pages. 19 excellent photographic illustrations including frontispiece. One fold-out map showing ‘Anglo-Egyptian Sudan’. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind tooling and design to front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only one of two fold-out-maps present (the small Africa-Map-missing). Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Binding firm and strong.

5. Johnson, Marti / [Osa Johnson].

Over African Jungles. [60000 Miles by Aeroplane over the Big Game Country of Africa]. The record from pen and camera of a glorious adventure over the big game country of Africa 60,000 miles by aeroplane.

Second Edition. Rare in original dustjacket. London, Harrap, 1935. 15 x 23 cm. 249 pages, including illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. The dustjacket with tear and some loss to upper front flap. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. [Murray Smith, T.] Wykes, Alan.

Nimrod Smith – A Profile of T. Murray Smith, M.C. Professional Big Game Hunter. [Signed / Inscribed] Illustrated.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1961. 14.3 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, XI, 207 pages. 11 illustrations (black-and-white photographs). Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Signed and inscribed by Big Game Hunter T. Murray Smith: “Tom Johnson, Wishing you good Hunting – T. Murray Smith – June 1961”. Including Erratum note, identifying Smith as photographer of nearly all included images. Signed copies by Old-Time Professional Hunter T. Murray Smith are extremely scarce !

7. Savile, Frank.

The River of the Giraffe – A Chronicle of Desert, Stream, and Forest Shooting in the Southern Sudan.

London, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1925. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, 217 pages. 11 illustration including frontispiece. Frontispiece missing. Missing Sketch map showing locality of the Bahr El Zeraf. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Split on boundary between pastedown and endpaper. Binding still firm and strong. Occasional spotting to interior, otherwise clean and bright. Foxing to edges. One plate cleanly detached. Preowner’s name on front endpaper.

8. Scobie, Alastair.

Adventurer’s Paradise.

London, The Travel Book Club, 1955. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 249 pages. 12 illustrations. One map near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inked mark and smudges on spine. Interior bright and clean with very minor spotting. Front pastedown carries preowner’s name and reference (empty) card holder.

9. Stoneham, C.T.

Wanderings in Wild Africa. Illustrated.

Third Impression. London, Hutchinson & Co, 1932. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 286 pages. 34 illustrations including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original slamon cloth] with lettering on spine. Tooling to spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some stronger signs of foxing.

10. White, Stewart Edward.

The Rediscovered Country. Illustrated from Photographs.

London, New York, Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, no year. 14 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, VIII, 358 pages. 100 illustrations. Fold-out map of region at rear. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. The fold-out-map with tear. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean and sharp-cornered.