Life Of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O. Capt, 25Th Royal Fusiliers by Millais, J.G - 1919

Paperback / softback. New.

Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1919. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4th Impression. 387 pages (complete). Heavy. Extra postage coast, unless posted within South Africa. The boards are rubbed, marked and edge worn. Internally the pages are Lightly tanned, with minor marks but the pages remain neat legible and tightly bound. 20/01/2021. ak. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

(London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1918). First edition. Demy 8vo; original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; no dustwrapper; pp. xi + (iii) + 387, incl. index; frontis. portrait; several plates after photographs and the author's own artwork. Corners bumped and cloth rubbed; binding slack; scattered, moderate foxing; contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf. Good only. (Czech, p. 196) Classic biography of the greatest big-game hunter. "Written as a tribute to Selous, who was killed in action against German forces in East Africa during the Great War, Millais includes numerous passages from his subject's books and articles, recounting big-game hunting adventures in Africa and other international locales." - Czech: An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1999. .

New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1919. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Fair. 387 pages, no dust jacket is present, illustrated with 14 full-page illustrations by the author and 2 portraits, footnotes, index. Ink name of previous owner and date written on front flyleaf, ink notation on half-title page. Some discoloration to a few pages, boards worn, spotted, and scuffed, board corners bumped. Frederick Courtenay Selous DSO was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. He was killed in action during World War I on January 4th, 1917, in German East Africa.