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For your convenience: You may purchase books online through our online checkout process, or you may call us directly and purchase books by Phone: 952-474-5780 Fax: 952-401-9032 Email: orders@hunterbooks.com Be sure to provide us book ID#s and titles so we can easily locate the items you are interested in purchasing. Search Books For Sale By Author, Title or Keyword: Browse Books For Sale By Category: Browse A Category Africa Alaska & Canada Archery & Bowhunting Asia & India Autobiography & Biography Bibliography Big Game Hunting Big Game Trophy Records Birds Boone & Crockett Elephants & Elephant Hunting Exploration & Travel Fiction Fishing General Guns & Shooting History Hunting & Fishing Mountaineering Natural History & Conservation Polar Roosevelt Sheep & Sheep Hunting Tigers & Tiger Hunting Upland Game & Waterfowl Wildlife Art & Photography Check Out Our Recommended Books Lists: View A List Authors - Roosevelt,, Theodore Authors - Akeley, Carl E., Delia & Mary L. Jobe Authors - Anderson, Kenneth Authors - Baker, Samuel Authors - Beard, Peter Authors - Bell, W.D.M. (Karamojo) Authors - Capstick, Peter Hathaway Authors - Cloete, Stuart Authors - Corbett, Jim Authors - Dinesen, Isak (Blixen, Karen) and Blixen, Bror Authors - Hemingway, Ernest Authors - Johnson, Martin & Osa Authors - Keith, Elmer Authors - Lyell, Denis D. Authors - Markham, Beryl Authors - O'Connor, Jack Authors - Ruark, Robert Authors - Selous, Frederick Courtney Authors - Smith, Wilbur Authors - Stanley, Henry Morton Authors - Stigand, Capt. C. H. Publishers - Amwell Press (African Hunting Heritage Series) Publishers - Amwell Press (High Country, Big Game and Asian Heritage Series) Publishers - Amwell Press (Membership Series) Publishers - Amwell Press(Miscellaneous and Angling Heritage Series) Publishers - Boone & Crockett Club Publishers - Borzoi Books For Sportsmen Publishers - Briar Patch Press Publishers - John Culler & Sons Publishers - Rowland Ward Publications Topics - African Buffalo Hunting Topics - Deep Sea Fishing Topics - Elephant Hunting Topics - Jaguar Hunting Topics - Leopard Hunting Topics - Lion Hunting Topics - North American Big Game Hunting Books Topics - African Wildlife Photography Books Topics - Recommended Reading For The Big Game Hunter Topics - Wildlife Art Books Featured Books  There are currently 20  featured books Leonard, Dale R. Hunting Colorado's Bighorn [T25756] n.d. (1969) Privately printed and dedicated to Dale Hibbs who spent his life studying bighorn sheep and who lost his life in Alaska in 1967, large 4to, typewritten, unnumbered pages. Includes articles by many prominent sheep hunters and a great many photographs. Very scarce. Fine.  ID#: 1516 Category: Big Game Hunting $475.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Ruark, Robert SOMETHING OF VALUE "N28733" Garden City, N.Y.1955, first edition stated, 566 pages, illustrated wth line drawings by Daniel Schwartz. Ruark's famous novel set in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR as follows: ""To Esther and Coleman Jonas, with gratitude and admiration and thanks. Sincerely, Bob Ruark."" Coleman Jonas was an early pioneer of modern taxidermy, Inscribed books by Robert Ruark are very scarce. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. Jacket and book are Near Fine.  ID#: 2545 Category: Fiction / Africa $575.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Benoit, Larry HOW TO BAG THE BIGGEST BUCK IN YOUR LIFE "LG30141" The Whitetail Press, Duxbury, VT 1975, second printing, 158 pages, B & W photographs by Peter Miller and John Randolph, B & W illustrations by Ed Vebell. Written with Peter Miller. Wegner writes ""A no-nonsense hard-fact book written by a deer hunter from Vermont with a successful track record unequaled in modern times. Describes in detail how he tracked one trophy buck for thirteen days ---traveling well over three hundred miles on foot before tagging the old monarch of the woods. An engaging book with impressive photos of trophy deer hunting activities in Vermont. As the author finally notes 'Oh, a good buck track just sets me to quivering!'"" Dust jacket and book are Very fine.  ID#: 2158 Category: Big Game Hunting $225.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Blixen, Karen OUT OF AFRICA Putnam, London 1937, a stated first UK edition of this great work on colonial Africa before it was issued a year later under the pseudonym "Isak Dinesen," 416 pages. The text block is Fine and withoout marks or writings. The hinges are firm and clean. The front pastedown has a few tiny specks on it. The covers and spine shaow some general wear, with a horizontal crease mark on rear cover, about 1" from bottom. Large rectangualr portions of the front and rear covers are uniformly darkened by expposure; moreso to the rear one. The gilt lettering on the spine is reasonably bright. There is a later printing dustjacket made of a unique, varient jacket design by Robin Darwin, a renowned British artist which depicts an African landscape with Kafen Bliven's Kenya home in the background. The jacket was issued with the Putman's name at the bottom of the spine.This book comes with a copy of a photo of the Blixen home. Overall, the book is Very Good and the dustjacket is Near Fine. An unusual and scarce item.  ID#: 2474 Category: Africa $675.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Armstrong, Major Nevill A. D. YUKON YESTERDAYS, THIRTY YEARS OF ADVENTURE IN THE KLONDIKE "N485790" John long, London 1936, first edition, 287 pages, with 54 B & W illustrations and 2 maps on endpapers. "Personal memories of the famous Klondike Gold Rush, first-hand accounts of lucky strikes, stories of Dawson in the wild Nineties, together with adventures in mining, exploring and big game hunting in the unknown sub-Arctic." No dust jacket. This book is clean, tight and unmarked internally. Gilt lettering on spine sharp and bright. Appears to have not been read. This book was followed a year olater by Armstrong's second and last book, "Big Game Hunting in the Upper Yukon". Overall a Near Mint copy of a 75 year old and rarely seen book.  ID#: 2511 Category: Big Game Hunting $475.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Hallamore, Lou & Woods, Bruce CHUI! A GUIDE TO HUNTING THE AFRICAN LEOPARD "T30240" Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA 2011, new reprint of the highly sought after work. 237 pages, profusely illustrated with B & W photographs and drawings.Czech writes: ""An excellent work on hunting leopards in the bush and from a blind, offering shooting advice, stalking practice, natural history, etc."" The original printing in 1994 has been in extremely high demand and has been considered probably the best book ever written covering exclusively the African leopard. Dust Jacket, As New.  ID#: 2359 Category: Big Game Hunting $75.00 Currently 0 available in stock. Schilling, Ton TIGERMEN OF ANAI "T26924" George Allen & Ubwin, London 1957, 1st English edition, 190 pages, B & W photos. Turn of the century adventures in the Dutch East Indies with exciting pursuit of big game on Java and Sumatra. Unique experiences with tigers, elephant, boars, panthers, banteng and observations on the widespread legend of men who turn themselves into tigers at will. Dust jacket has a little soiling on the back but is otherwise unclipped and Near Fine. The book is Very Fine.  ID#: 2285 Category: Big Game Hunting $85.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Hunter, J.A. WHITE HUNTER "N28223" Safari Press, Long Beach 1986 limited edition reprint of the classic 1938 work, Copy #247 of limited edition of 1000 copies, the first book in the Classics in African Hunting Series, 282 pages, illustrated. "The Adventures and Experiences of a Professional Big Game Hunter in Africa." Slipcase and book are Very Fine.  ID#: 2499 Category: Big Game Hunting $340.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Smith, Wilbur THOSE IN PERIL (W30159) Macmillan, London 2011, first U.K edition, SIGNED BY WILBUR SMITH. A novel involving pirates in the Indian Ocean. The books just arrived from the U.K. .Here is an outline of the story. Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp., one of the major oil producers with global reach, While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel's private yacht is hijacked by African Muslim pirates. Hazel is not on board at the time, but her nineteen year old daughter, Cayla, is kidnapped and held for ransom. The pirates demand a crippling ransom for her release. Complicated political and diplomatic considerations render the major powers incapable of intervening. When Hazel is given evidence of the horrific torture which Cayla is being subjected to, she calls on Hector Cross to help her rescue her daughter. Hector is the owner and operator of Cross Bow Security, the company which is contracted to Bannock Oil to provide all their security. He is a formidable fighting man. Between them Hazel and Hector are determined to take the law into their own hands. An exciting story in the Wilbur Smith fashion! Dust Jacket, As New.  ID#: 2207 Category: Fiction $69.00 Currently 0 available in stock. Czech, Kenneth P. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTING BOOKS 1785 - 1999 "T30239" Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA 2011, first edition, 313 pages, illustrated with 32 colored images of rare dust jacket covers. This edition, printed in an edition of only 500 copies, brings through the year 1999 the details of books by hunters, pioneers, explorers and settlers whose exploits are sought after by book collectors. The number of entries is nearly double those of Czech's earlier book which covered books published only through 1950 and is now long out of print. His detailed descriptions of the books make this new and updated edition an essential tool for the collector or serious reader of African adventure titles. Dust Jacket, As New.  ID#: 2357 Category: Bibliography / Africa $85.00 Currently 0 available in stock. Lacy, Thomas E. KANIKSU, STORIES OF THE NORTHWEST "W29301" Keokee Publishing, Sandpoint, ID, collector's edition , numbered and signed copy of a limited edition of 225 copies, 143 pages, issued without a dust jacket in a gray cloth hard cover with gilt lettering and a gilt grizzly bear on the front. A collection of stories of people who lived in the Kanksu of northern Idaho and the Lolo of of western Montana in the 1920s and 30s during the time the author was growing up - the homesteaders, the sourdoughs, the lumberjacks, the rogues, the rascals , the sweet people. Lacy's experiences there from a time long gone by, with his love of the wilderness, the mountains, the wildlife. He describes his experience with the Forest Service, stories of the Bitteroots and fishing in western Montana. The book has been illustrated by Thomas Hunter and includes a two page ORIGINAL watercolor sporting scene in full color by Hunter on the interior front endpapers. There is a different sporting scene in each copy of the book.Very Fine  ID#: 2469 Category: General / Hunting & Fishing $95.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Muir, John The Cruise of the Corwin [T25770] Houghton Mifflin, Boston and N.Y. 1917, first edition, 279 pages, illustrated with B & W photographs. The cover has a full color painting of the Corwin in the Ice which is intact. There are no marks or inscriptions. No dust jacket. The lettering on cover and spine is intact. Endpapers renewed. The contents are tight and clean. Very Good Plus.  ID#: 360 Category: Polar $150.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Boone and Crockett RECORDS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME - 1932 "DM26221" Derrydale Press N.Y. 1932, first printing, one of 500 copies, 4to, 178 pages Edited by Prentiss N. Gray. First in the records series and because so few copies were printed, much sought after.This copy has slight cover soiling. The lower corner, front and back is bumped and there is a slight bump halfway up the ouside edge of the front cover. There is a previous owner signature and address and the date 1933 on the front endpaper. Overall the book is tight, clean and Very Good. Very scarce.  ID#: 2232 Category: Big Game Trophy Records $1,600.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Andrews, Roy Chapman ENDS OF THE EARTH "T27497" National Travel Club, N.Y. 1929, special limited edition , 355 pages, B & W photos, pictorial endpapers. Lost in a Borneo jungle, whaling off the coast of China, hunting in Mongolia. Adventures as stirring as the strongest stories of fiction. Dust Jacket is complete with a few small repairs.. The book itself is without marks or inscriptions and is Fine.  ID#: 1946 Category: Exploration & Travel $150.00 Currently 1 available in stock. RUTLEDGE, ARCHIBALD Fireworks in the Peafield Corner [W25128] Amwell Press, Clinton, N.J. 1986, numbered copy of limited edition of 1000 copies, 357 pages, original illustrations by Steve Thomas. signed and edited with a special introduction by Rutledge's son, Judge Irvine H. Rutledge. "A treasury of the best of The Sage of Hampton Plantation and the First Poet Laureate of South Carolina." Slipcase and book are Very Fine.  ID#: 955 Category: General $300.00 Currently 1 available in stock. LYELL, DENIS D. Hunting Trips in Northern Rhodesia [N29443] Horace Cox, London 1910,.4to, 118 pages plus 2 pages of ads, profusely illustrated with B & W photographs and drawings. "With accounts of sport and travel in Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa and also notes on the game animals and their distribution." Czech writes "Lyell recounts his experiences in the big game lands of Rhodesia with exciting detasil. All manner of game was collected, including elephant near Lake Chiuta, hippopotamus on the Shire River, rhinoceros on the Luangwa River, and lion. In addition, sable impala, kudu, eland, lechwe, waterbuck and other antelopes were also taken." The book has been rebound in green leather to match the original color. The camp scene photograph from the original cover has been inlaid and the gilt lettering on cover and spine closely match the original. There is a small previous owner signature on the half-title page otherwise the contents are tight and clean - a Fine copy of a very scarce title.  ID#: 1522 Category: Big Game Hunting $1,750.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Bates, Robert H. MOUNTAIN MAN "T26204" Amwell Press, Clinton, NJ 1988, copy #807 of limited edition of 1000 copies signed by author and editor, 4to, 420 pages in slipcase. The story of Belmore Browne, hunter, explorer, artist, naturalist. Illustrated with color and B & W reproductions of original art by Browne in addition to photographs from the archives of the Browne family. Browne was nearly the first man to have climbed Mt. McKinley, failing to reach the summit by only 100 feet. Browne did many of the dioramas in the North American big game exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Slipcase and book are Very Fine.  ID#: 2377 Category: Mountaineering $250.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Lacy, George ("The Old Pioneer") PICTURES OF TRAVEL, SPORT AND ADVENTURE "N28523" C. Arthur Pearson, London 1899, first edition, 420 pages,TEG, illustrated. Quoting from Czech ""Lacy hunted in various locales in South Africa during the 1860s and 1870s, West of the Drakenburg Mountains, near the Bombo Hills, he and his hunting partner bagged buffalo and elephant, with some hippopotamus hunting on the Umlomati River..He also recounts later hunting episodes after various small game in the Orange Free State and leopard hunting in Natal, with hippo bagged on the Tugela River."" Gilt sporting crest on cover and lettering on cover and spine are intact and bright. Moderate shelfwear. Small previous owner blindstamp on the title pager. Slight browning on endpapers. Contents are tight, clean and overall a Very Good Plus copy of a very scarce title.  ID#: 2041 Category: Big Game Hunting $300.00 Currently 1 available in stock. Roosevelt, Theodore THE WINNING OF THE WEST "PB48571" DANIEL BOONE EDITION Roosevelt, Theodore. THE WINNING OF THE WEST. Limited to only 200 copies ( The Daniel Boone edition). G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1900. This is set # 176 with an original Manuscript leaf entirely in the hand of Roosevelt, bound into Volume 1. Quarto. In four volumes, Volume I: xxvii, [3], 352; Volume II: vii, [3], 427; Volume III: ix, [3] 339; and Volume IV: [3], 363pp. plus five folding maps and 103 plates. Beautifully bound ¾ original green (unfaded) morocco leather over marbled boards; three raised bands with gilt lettering within the two compartments. Uncommon to this publication is the fact the spines are virtually unfaded. Top edges gilt, bright and unmarked, all others uncut. Elaborate green marbled endpapers, matching the cloth material on the covers. Internally, the set is Very Fine save for some minor and scattered foxing to a few preliminary and early pages, not affecting text, illustrations or text and the upper right corners of 2 of the preliminary pages of Volume 4 at one time had been folded, leaving crease marks, not affecting text. Externally the boards and spines are clean and without lean. Some minor archival reinforcement repair has been done to the outer front hinges of Volumes I and II. Overall, this is a Near Fine set. Scans of all features are available on request.  ID#: 2488 Category: Roosevelt / History $22,000.00 Currently 1 available in stock. PAGE, WARREN One Man's Wilderness [W25350] Holt Rinehart & Winston 1973, 1st edition, 256 pages. "From the African veldt to New Zealand's Southern Alps to Alaska's glacier country, a world-known writer and veteran sportsman recounts the joys of a lifetime of global hunting" Exciting chapters - from glacier bears in Alaska to the rams of Iran. Dust jacket is price clipped and has some cover rippling but is otherwise complete and Very Good. The book is Fine.  ID#: 1559 Category: Big Game Hunting $50.00 Currently 1 available in stock.