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Cumming, R. Gordon : A Hunter's Life in South Africa

Galago, 1986

ISBN 0947020152

Inscribed by Author(s)373 pages. Foreword by Peter Stiff who has inscribed at the end of the piece (dated 10th March 1986). Facsimile edition of 1857 edition. The dustjacket has a tough clear plastic protective cover. The cover beneath is clear and vibrant. The green cloth cover has wear to the extremities, particularly along the bottom rim. The corners have some minor wear. The back cover has some shelving depressions. The spine has shelf pulls to the head and foot. The front page has crease marks to the top right hand edge. The contents throughout are clean, strong, very clear and bright and very fresh. fk. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

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Cumming, R. Gordon : A Hunter's Life in South Africa

(Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe, 1980) 086920209X

ISBN 086920209X

These are the first two volumes in the 'African Hunting Reprint Series.' Text facsimile reprint of the two-volume John Murray 2nd edition of 1850, with a new introduction by Professor James A. Casada. Two 8vo volumes; original brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt elephant device to upper board in each case; pictorial dustwrappers, housed in removable protectors; pp. xvii + xv + (i) + 388, (iv) + 381; plates, + route map in first volume. Spine panel of first volume's dustrapper slightly sunned. Near fine condition. 'A particularly fine example of Victorian sporting literature, the book was markedly successful and ran to many editions. Gordon-Cumming writes of his hunting expedition which started from Grahamstown in October 1843 and which took him through countryside teeming with game - "not with herds, but with 'one vast herd' of springboks; as far as the eye could strain..." - to the Orange River and Griqualand West where he met Oswell, and, at Kuruman, Robert Moffat and, soon after, David Livingstone. He appears to have hunted every species of South African fauna and to have indulged himself in the sport to an extent almost unique even amongst the mighty hunters of Africa. The narrative is valuable for its description of the country and its inhabitants, and for its zoological and botanical notes.'

CUMMING, R. Gordon (New Introduction James A CASADA) : A Hunter's Life in South Africa

Books of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, 1980

2 vols. Fine unread copies in vg++ edgeworn lightly faded dw's. African Hunting Reprint Series #1

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CUMMING, R. Gordon : A Hunter's Life in South Africa

Galago, 1986

A fine copy in a fine d.w.

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