Search Results: a tear for somalia by douglas collins

Jarrolds Publishers, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Di Sopra, Bruno. Previous owners name. The front free end paper page has been removed. Publication of 192 pages. Frontispiece. The dust jacket is worn, tears and chipped pieces. The boards are slightly marked on the spine edges, remain in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London, The Adventurers Club, 1960, hardcover, 192 pp, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, tidy name and date to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, foxing to top and fore-edge of textblock. Dustjacket, light edge nicks to spine-ends and corners, spine slightly darkened, in new Brodart sleeve, the best example of this dustjacket I've ever seen. The British-born soldier, administrative officer, and professional hunter's first book about his adventures in northern Africa beginning in 1941 when he was just 22 years old. Illustrated with 16 full-page drawings by Bruno De Sopra.

USA: AMWELL PRESS, 19809. 1ST EDITION. HARDCOVER. MINT/FINE. Amwell Press, USA, 1980, hardcover, limited special signed edition #835 of 1,000 , SIGNED by author, and Jim RIKOFF, President of NSFL, leather binding, satin ribbon, mint (as new/unread)) in matching slipcover, not remaindered, bookclub or library, beautiful and collectible

The Adventurers Club. Fine in Good Dust Jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo . From the library of Marlin Perkins. With long letter tipped in. We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionaly packaged and shipped promptly. P36 .

London: Jarrolds, (1960)., (1960).. Good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR DOUGLAS COLLINS TO PROFESSIONAL HUNTER BILL RYAN - Octavo, 8-1/4 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in light bluish-gray cloth titled in black on the spine, laid into a pictorial dust wrapper. The covers are bumped. The edges of the soiled dust jacket are chipped with small pieces out from the head and tail of the jacket's spine. 192 pages illustrated with a frontispiece, a map and 17 mostly full-page vivid drawings of native Somalis. Very good in a good dust wrapper.
First edition.
With a wonderful inscription to professional hunter Bill Ryan: "For Bill Ryan, one of the more gentlemanly white hunters of the present day (he'll know what I'm talking about here) & he'll damn well know what I'm talking about in this Far-gone book - Le sh[?] / Douglas Collins / Christmas, [?], 1960."
In a tribute to Bill Ryan (c.1908-1985) in Gamecoin Magazine, Chuck Ennis writes of him: "Bill was one of Kenya's best liked and well-known… Read More

The Amwell Press, 1980. One of 1000 copies, signed by the author and Jim Rinkoff. Ownership inscription to both front pastedowns, else fine in fine publisher's slipcases.. Red leatheretter.

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1980. First Limited to 1,000 Sets. Hardcover. Fine/Orig Clipase fine. Third and fourth titles in the African hunting heritage series issued by the National Sporting Fraternity. 182 & 192 pp. Books and slipcase are fine. Popular set and not much in print on hunting in Somalia.