Lot Details
Lot 352
STIGAND, C. H. Hunting the Elephant in Africa and Other Recollections of Thirteen Years' Wanderings.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt. 8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches; xv, 379, [4] pp.; frontispiece, plates, half-title, publisher's advertisements. Spine ends bumped, a bit overopened, foxing to endpapers and title page.
"A preeminent elephant hunting title, this details Stigand's big game hunting efforts primarily in British East Africa, North Eastern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and the Lado Enclave. He includes chapters on hunting rhinoceros, buffalo and lion, but relates his encounters with elephants with particular verve. As he states in Chapter 1: 'There is something so fascinating and absorbing about elephant hunting that those who have done much of it can seldom take any interest again in any other form of sport" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 269.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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