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GAME RANGER NOTE BOOK SAFARI Pericval AMWELL HUNTING. This two-volume set of A GAME RANGER ON SAFARI and A GAME RANGER'S NOTE BOOK by A. Blayney Percival were published by the AMWELL PRESS in 1985. These are the fifteenth and sixteenth volume's in the National Sporting Fraternity's "AFRICAN HUNTING HERITAGE BOOK SERIES". A difficult set to find especially in this condition. Very find condition - both volumes are unread. ********************************************** The AMWELL PRESS is the publishing arm of THE NATIONAL SPORTING FRATERNITY founded in March,1976 by Jim Rikhoff. He was know and liked throughout the sport publishing industry as a result of his early founding of the Winchester Press. Because of his popularity with the industry he was able to get a who's who of international big game hunters and sport hunters as authors. The titles in the series would include original works by professional hunters, books by active sport hunters, anthologies that contained selections from both contemporary hunters and classic works and reprints of sought after titles. The titles are limited to 1000 copies or less with beautiful LEATHER binding's and SLIPCASE'S. These titles are all SIGNED by the author or editor or both and by Jim Rikhoff. In many editions you will find great PHOTOGRAPHS from the authors personal collections while in others you will find ILLUSTRATIONS from artists that capture the feel of the stories. ********************************************* A. Blayner Percival was a famous game warden in Kenya for a twenty-three year period during the first quarter of the Twentieth Century. His earlier work, A GAME RANGER'S NOTEBOOK deals with his experiences with lion, rhinoceros, buffalo and elephant in the Kenya Colony. A GAME RANGER ON SAFARI is a continuation of that work, with lots of information on safari hunting, and individual chapters on hunting Baboons, Chimpanzees, Monkeys, Oryx, Antelope, Waterbuck, Impala, Wilderbeast, Thomson's Gazelle, Jackels, Crocodile, Snakes, and more. ********************************************* Illustrated throughout with NUMEROUS photographs from the author's personal collection, as well as those of Martin Johnson. Each volume also has an attached fold-out map. ********************************** Beautiful dark RED leather, spine's lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt with the picture of a elephant and leopard, covers double-gilt-ruled, in a two-compartment, divided, BLACK slipcase ********************************************* THE BOOK'S AND SLIPCASE ARE IN VERY FINE CONDITION. ********************************* LIMITED EDITION OF #958 out of 1000 COPIES, SIGNED BY MARGARET KUMMERFELDT (PERCIVAL), (AUTHOR'S DAUGHTER) AND JIM RIKHOFF (THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL SPORTING FRATERNITY). THERE ARE TWO NEAT PREVIOUS OWNER'S BOOK PLATES TIPPED IN. ********************************* -679 total pages. -forward by Margaret Kummerfeldt, daughter of the author. -type for this volume was set by the Kingsport Press, Kingsport, Tennessee. -printed on acid-free paper, and Smythe-sewn and custom bound by the Kingsport Press, Kingsport, Tennessee. -designed by Monica Sullivan. ******************************* A GAME RANGER ON SAFARI and A GAME RANGER'S NOTE BOOK recall observations made during nearly 30 years in Africa, of which 22 were spent in the Game Department of Kenya Colony. His chapters on lions and elephants are exceptional. In 1924 he claimed that he could smell giraffes 300 yards downwind, a fact now supported by scientist at California's Humboldt State University. A reprint of two great classics of African hunting, first published in 1924 and 1928