(Africa, Big Game, Travel.) W.D.M. Bell, 2 titles: 'The Wand...

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£200

(Africa, Big Game, Travel.) W.D.M. Bell, 2 titles: 'The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter', London, Country Life Ltd., 1923, 1st edition, frontispiece + 42 plates, 38 with illustrations recto and verso, plus illustrations in text as called for, ix, [1], 187, [1 (index)]; title in red and black, 4to, original quarter yellow buckram gilt, cloth gilt title label to front cover, 6 page photocopy of an obituary of the author "Karamoja" Bell by Maj. BG Kinloch, Chief Game Warden, Uganda, published in the Uganda Journal, 1954, loosely inserted, 'Karamojo Safari', NY, Harcourt Brace, 1949, 1st US edition, orig. pictorial cloth; together with an autograph letter signed by one Dave Southwood, from Shire River, Malawi, to John Humphreys (1939-2012), c.1990's, on elephant dung paper, with 4 associated colour photographs African elephants, loosely inserted. Scarce first edition of Bell's first work, describing his 'early elephant hunting days in the Karamojo region' of Africa, in modern-day Uganda; together with Frederick Courteney Selous, 2 titles: 'Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa', London, Rowland Ward, 1893, 1st edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece + 21 plates, folding map + ills. in text as called for, [4]pp adverts at end, original pictorial cloth gilt, inner joints reinforced. "In this work recounting eleven years of exploration, work and sport in the 1880s and 1890s, Selous describes numerous adventures with lion and leopards, particularly near the Zambezi, Zweswi, and Manyami rivers ..." (Czech), 'A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa. Being a narrative of nine years spent amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa.', L, Macmillan, 1907, 5th edition, frontispiece, title vignette, folding map, 17 full-page plates + 6 illustrations in text as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, replenished EP's. (4)

From the estate of John Humphreys (1939-2012), distinguished sporting and countryside author who wrote for Shooting Times for more than 40 years – for much of that time contributing the weekly ‘Country Gun’ column. He was a much loved character of the shooting community who dedicated his life to the promotion of shooting, fishing and the countryside.