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Finaughty, William : The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant Hunter 1864-1875

(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991) 031205503X

ISBN 031205503X

A volume in the 'Peter Capstick Adventure Library', the series editor of which is Peter Hathaway Capstick. 8vo; original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 242. Text facsimile of the Harrison printing of 1916, which was limited to 250 copies. A little light spotting to endpapers, edges and outermost leaves. Very good condition. 'Taken from the years well before and during the Anglo-Boer War, one of the great, early ivory hunters told his adventures to a friend who owned the pioneer paper The Rhodesian Journal. Adventurer, rogue, and hunter extraordinaire, William Finaughty survived the death that awaited many early elephant hunters, bagging over five hundred tuskers in five years, as well as living through the intrigues with which the early South Africa was fraught. "Bill" Finaughty even shot five elephants with four bullets, a feat that is typical of this book. That he hunted entirely with a muzzle-loading rifle adds a great deal of zest to this classic tale of which only 250 copies were printed, and less than half survive today.'

Finaughty, William : The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant Hunter 1864-1875

(Bulawayo: Books of Zimbabwe, 1980) 0869202294

ISBN 0869202294

This is the third volume in the 'African Hunting Reprint Series.' Text facsimile reprint of the J. B. Lippincott first edition of 1916, with a new foreword and notes by Edward C. Tabler, and additional sketch map and illustrations. 8vo; original brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt elephant device to upper board; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. (xxviii) + 244, incl. index; plates; map. Spine panel a little sunned. Near fine condition. Concerning the original, Ken Czech writes: 'One of the rarest of all African big game hunting titles, this was privately printed by George L. Harrison in an edition of 250 copies for distribution to noteworthy African sportsmen and other luminaries including Theodore Roosevelt and Sir Alfred Pease. Harrison, who was on safari in Rhodesia in 1908, not only hunted with Finaughty's son, but later met the author and was given a set of The Rhodesian Journal, a weekly newspaper which had serialized the elder Finaughty's original recollections. From these, Harrison published the work less one chapter from an issue missing from his set. When William Finaughty entered Matabeleland and Mashonaland in the 1860s, the "elephants practically did not know what a gunshot was." Though the recollections bounce around a bit, this volume presents numerous exciting encounters with elephant, buffalo, lion and other big game.' - Kenneth Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999

Finaughty, William : The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant Hunter 1864-1875

(Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1973)

This is the twenty-ninth volume in the Rhodesiana Reprint Library Gold Series. Text facsimile reprint of the J. B. Lippincott first edition of 1916, with a new foreword and notes by Edward C. Tabler, and additional sketch map and illustrations. 8vo; original brown boards with gilt lettering to spine and upper cover; pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pp. (xxviii) + 244, incl. index; plates; map. Spine panel very slightly sunned; faint trace of foxing to endpapers. Near fine condition. Concerning the original, Ken Czech writes: 'One of the rarest of all African big game hunting titles, this was privately printed by George L. Harrison in an edition of 250 copies for distribution to noteworthy African sportsmen and other luminaries including Theodore Roosevelt and Sir Alfred Pease. Harrison, who was on safari in Rhodesia in 1908, not only hunted with Finaughty's son, but later met the author and was given a set of The Rhodesian Journal, a weekly newspaper which had serialized the elder Finaughty's original recollections. From these, Harrison published the work less one chapter from an issue missing from his set. When William Finaughty entered Matabeleland and Mashonaland in the 1860s, the "elephants practically did not know what a gunshot was." Though the recollections bounce around a bit, this volume presents numerous exciting encounters with elephant, buffalo, lion and other big game.' - Kenneth Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785-1999

Finaughty, William : The Recollections of William Finaughty. Elephant Hunter 1864-1875

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1916)., 1916

First printing limited to 250 unnumbered copies, intended for private distribution. 8vo. 242 pp. Unillustrated. Original half-brown cloth with brown paper over boards. Printed front cover and spinal labels. An exceedingly scarce book on African big game hunting. The spinal cloth has some discoloration and there is an area of stain/abrasion extending up onto the label. In addition the book has two (presumably) insect holes, approx. 1/8" diameter, which extend up from the bottom edge approximately 1/2" into the body (not affecting the print), on pages 167-240. Thus only a good book.. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover

1st Edition

FINAUGHTY, William : The Recollections of William Finaughty Elephant Hunter 1864 - 1875

A.A. Balkema, 1957

A fine unread copy in a fine d.w. This edition is the first to contain in book form the missing chapter XVII, omitted from the first edition

First Edition

FINAUGHTY, William : The Recollections of William Finaughty, Elephant Hunter, 1864-1875

Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1973

A fine copy in a fine d.w. Rhodesiana Gold Series #29. Facsimile reprint of the rare original edition, with a new introductin.

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