RECENT HUNTING TRIPS BRITISH North AMERICA Yukon Canada Caribou Frederick Selous.



Copyright 1987 First Premier Press Leatherbound Edition of RECENT HUNTING TRIPS IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA (Yukon Territory to Newfoundland),


by F. C. Selous, Limited to 3,000 copies, this being No. 2430, with a Frontispiece and 3 other tissue-guarded color plates by Carl Rungius, along with dozens of B&W photographs, and with a new 10-page Introduction by Charles A. Wechsler, dated December 15, 1986. It was Published in Camden, SC in an octavo measuring 6.25" x 9.25" and contains xxiv, [i], 419 pp.. It is printed on acid-free paper, with all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, and a gold silk ribbon bookmark. The book is bound in full light gray leather titled and decorated in gilt on the front cover and spine.


"Recent Hunting Trips in British North America" is a 400 page (plus 65 plates), 6"x9" hardcover written by Frederick C. Selous and published in 1907 in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons. This is the first American edition - it appeared in Great Britain the same year. Selous was a renowned British hunter and explorer, with earlier books focused on his exploits in Africa. Here he writes of hunting moose, wild sheep, wolves, caribou and other wildlife in Central Canada, Newfoundland and the Yukon Territory. There are 65 black-and-white illustrations