The African Collection

A near complete set (21 of the 24 volumes) in The African Collection from Briar Patch Press. The volumes in this series were chosen by longtime Sporting Classics Editor at Large Jim Casada and, as the list below notes, he wrote detailed introductory material for 11 of the reprints. He also used his contacts in the community of researchers and specialists in the world of African hunting books to arrange for specialists in the field to write material for the remaining 13 reprints. This offering contains all but three volumes and, as such, represents a near complete set that could be finished with a bit of researching through booksellers on the Internet. Two of the key volumes, both folio size, by Millais and Potocki, are present. The latter is, in the original, is among the rarest of all works on African sport. The entire collection for $1,200. All are in excellent condition.

C. J. Andersson, Lake Ngami. 1988 MISSING

*S. W. Baker, The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia. 1988

*S. W. Baker, Wild Beasts and Their Ways. 1987

W. D. M. Bell, The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter. 1987

Abel Chapman, On Safari. 1988

William Finaughty, Recollections. 1987

*F. R. N. Findlay, Big Game Shooting and Travel in Southeast Africa. 1990 MISSING

*Edouard Foa, After Big Game in Central Africa. 

Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, A Hunter’s Life in S. Africa. 1987

*F. Vaughn Kirby, In Haunts of Wild Game. 1989

William Cornwallis Harris, The Wild Sports of Southern Africa. 1987

Denis D. Lyell, The Hunting & Spoor of Central African Game. 1987

*Denis D. Lyell, Memories of an African Hunter. 1990

John Guille Millais, A Breath from the Veldt. 1987

Arthur Neumann, Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa. 1987

J. H. Patterson, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo. 1986

A. B. Percival, A Game Ranger’s Notebook. 1987

Count Josef Potocki, Sport in Somaliland. 1988

*W. H. Powell-Cotton, A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia. 1990

Theodore Roosevelt, African Game Trails. 1987

*F. C. Selous, African Nature Notes and Reminiscences. 1988

*F. C. Selous, A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa. 1986

*James Sutherland, Adventures of an Elephant Hunter. 1990 MISSING

*John Willoughby, East Africa and Its Big Game. 1990

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*Introductions by Jim Casada