African Rifles & Cartridges by Taylor, John - 1995

USA: Winchester Press, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Second Revised Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover with blue boards and pictorial dust jacket, second revised edition, 2000gms, 517 pages, blank endpapers. This single volume brings together three of the most significant and useful books covering the whole realm of American firearms. Book 1 is titled Rifles, Book 2 is titled Shotguns, and Book 3 is titled Pistols and Revolvers. Book and boards are in very good condition with only very minor general wear and tear. Dust jacket is in good condition with light shelf wear, scuffing and chipping. Front dust jacket shows old sticker partially removed, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Book weighs 2kg and may incur additional postage..

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

Franklin W. Dixon: While The Clock Ticked (1932, Grosset & Dunlap Hardy Boys), 1948 Printing Thus. BROWN BOARDS, ORANGE ENDPAPERS. QUITE RARE IN THE ORIGINAL RED DUST JACKET. HARDY BOYS #11. GROSSET & DUNLAP. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD- ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. DESCRIPTION: The book is in an original red kidnap jacket. That jacket is original, has an orange spine. Loss to top and bottom of spine. with a triangular divot out of the letter H in the word the. The front panel of the dust jacket is unclipped and has a 7575 priced front flap. Back flap a blurb for "Touchdown Pass", dating this copy to 1948. Back panel of the dust jacket states ADVENTURE STORIES FOR BOYS BY ZANE GREY. BOOK: Brown boards with two boys in 30's period clothing at center. One wears a hat and scarf. Two sets of orange and white endpapers that show the boy with the hat up a tree with binoculars gazing at a cabin on a bluff across the way. Pages and endpapers are clean and bright. Black topstain. Copyright 1932 Grosset… Read More

London: Edward Arnold. Good. 1897. New Edition. Hardcover. Sportsman's Library series. Rebound in cloth and marbled paper with title label on spine. New pastedowns and endpapers, and top edge gilt. All plates present. Ex-library copy with perforating library stamp and "discard" written on title page. Boards have light soiling and text block has light toning and wear to edges. One of the most celebrated Scottish hunting books of the Victorian period. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pp .

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Longmans Green & Co., London. No copyright date. States New Impression 1921 on the title page. USED. VG/ No DJ Included. Blue boards withdark red- orange titling. 274 pages plus adverts. 5 1/8 X 7 5/8. Summary "King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is one of the first English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world genre."

USA: Winchester Press, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Second Revised Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover with blue boards and pictorial dust jacket, second revised edition, 2000gms, 517 pages, blank endpapers. This single volume brings together three of the most significant and useful books covering the whole realm of American firearms. Book 1 is titled Rifles, Book 2 is titled Shotguns, and Book 3 is titled Pistols and Revolvers. Book and boards are in very good condition with only very minor general wear and tear. Dust jacket is in good condition with light shelf wear, scuffing and chipping. Front dust jacket shows old sticker partially removed, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Book weighs 2kg and may incur additional postage..

Vienna: Commission C. A. Hartleben, 1840 Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original picturial hard covers with damaged spine, initial frontispiece (Ober dem Thore von Konia), title page in German with ownership by Mubarak bin Ali (seems to be from the Arabian Peninsula) in Arabic and Latin dated 1896, forrword and dedication to Philipps Augustus, xxxii, 115 p. German translation by Purgstall including partial Arabic and Latin texts, 96 p. Ottoman Turkish (Seljuk) text with 2 p. errata and picturial and floral initials in the beginning of the Turkish text. Partially water stained but generally in good condition. Limited to 300 copies..

New York: J. W. Bell, 1835. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in blue cloth with faint vine pattern, title label on spine. Very Good, cloth lightly rubbed, two previous owner bookplates to front endsheet. Written by an anonymous New York journalism and now attributed to J. Davis, of which little is known. Contains numerous on sportsmen, dogs and bird shooting. A lovely copy, housed in a custom case. Phillips, p.115.

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

(Persian) Falconry.Husam al-Dawlah Taymur Mirza. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri. A Persian Treatise on Falconry, translated by D. C. (Douglas Craven) Phillott, 1st edition, Bernard Quaritch, 1908, One of 500 copies.Description: halftone illustrations in the text, original publisher's green pictorial cloth with gilt reproduction of ancient Persian ms. with falconer on horseback, gilt-lettered spine, one minor worm hole through bottom margin first few pages, 8vo 25.5 x 17 cm. Kept in, and comes with, non adhesive transparent dust jacket. See pics for overall condition.Blanc front and end papers, half title page, frontispiece with clean protective tissue, title page, dedication page in English and one in Farsi, xxiv and 195 pp and illustrated with 25 illustrations of Persian paintings, animals, and original ms. Quaritch printer's device to last leaf (see pics).Notes: - Wood; p. 519; Zimmer p. 623. One of 500 copies only. The author was a grandson of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar (1772-1834) and a respected authority on… Read More