Hunting books including New Zealand and overseas.
Small game, big game, pest control etc.
Complete basic guide to all aspects of outdoors first aid and rescue of injured campers, trampers, hunters etc
VG softback
$8 B/B
New Zealand Mountain Safety Council Inc.1984, 126pp.[#241 adventure sports, outdoors, tramping ]
A guide to gamebird and waterfowl shooting in New Zealand. With identification of species, protected species, gear, choosing a gun-dog, cartridge loads etc.
VG softback
$10 C/A
A Tackle House Publication 1974, 80pp.
[#3360 ]
Stories from his lifetime of recreational and commercial hunting. Illustrated with photographs in the text.
ISBN0723307377
VG softback with light soiling to covers
$25 B/C
Whitcoulls 1984 first thus edition in soft covers, 208pp [#2172 hunting ]
Forrester's follow up to his classic 'The Chopper Boys', the story of the helicopter riding deer hunters, both shooting and capturing them live for stocking deer farms.
ISBN072330811X
new zealand, hunting, deer, helicopter, chopper, live capture, venison
VG softback with a faint crease to cover
$35 B/C
Whitcoulls 1987 first edition stiff card covered, 185pp with colour and b&w photos throughout. [#4283 ]
VG softback with a crease to front and back covers
$35 B/C
Whitcoulls 1987 first edition stiff card covered, 185pp with colour and b&w photos throughout. [#2869]
Chris described the symptoms of Pig Huntingitis, as owning a 4WD truck with a dog box on the back, a long pointed knife, a collection of motley looking dogs and when you are talking with your mates every second sentence has the word "pig" in it at least once.
Fortunately not a life-threatening problem, except possibly for the pigs. The progress from just infected to "chronic" is described in the stories in this book.
As it progresses it involves wives, children, friends and even casual acquaintances.
Rather than alarming it becomes life affirming as lots of fresh air and exercise in the pursuit of pigs improves overall health and the pigs provide nutritional food that is totally organic and as free range as it is possible to be.
ISBN9781877566196
hunting, pig hunting, new zealand
VG softback
$15 C/C
Halcyon Press 2012, 199pp.
[#3441 ]
Technical and common sense information for hunters on how to maximise the efficiency and accuracy of their guns by correct choice of ammo and aiming technique etc.
Approved by New Zealand Deerstalkers Association
ISBN 0589006991
stalking, hunting, firearms, accuracy, rifles
VG+ hardback with VG dust jacket.
$45 C/C
Reed 1982 Revised Edition, 284pp with photos and diagrams in the text.
[#5133 ]
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Ex-library, boards rubbed and soiled, bumped, minimal amount of stamps, closed edges fingermarked, the first edition, a few notations to the ballistics tables at rear
$25 C/C
Reed 1972 First Edition, 270pp with photos and diagrams in the text.
[#4894 ]
Hunting New Zealand's South Island West coast amid rugged mountains and bush. Illustrated throughout with photographs.
ISBN0589014323
deerstalking, big game, Westland
VG hardback in VG dustjacket. Short inscription to paste down.
$35 C/C
Reed 1982 first edition, viii 136pp.
[#4284 ]
New Zealand Government deer cullers in the Urewera.
Helmer spent time culling deer with Barry Crump in the bush, and he is mentioned.
Includes photos of the cullers.
G+ hardback with sunned spine and no dust jacket.
$15 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1964 second impression, 180pp + plates. [#244 ]
VG+ hardback with name to free end paper in VG- dust jacket with edge wear.
$30 C/B
Whitcombe and Tombs 1964 first edition, 180pp + plates. [#4736 ]
A young adult story about the first year in the life of a Red Deer in New Zealand.
The first book of the trilogy Fawn, Stag and White Patch
Illustrated by Tony Oliver
ISBN 0340342889
deer, hunting, fiction, story
VG softback.
$15 A/B
Hodder and Stoughton 1986 first edition thus, 130pp.
[#242 ]
A young adult story about a family hunt for an East Coast wild boar.
ISBN 0340366621
pigs, pig-hunting, fiction, story
VG hardback in VG dust jacket, some rubbing and wear to book and jacket corners.
$20 C/B
Hodder and Stoughton 1984 first edition, 118pp.
[#4851 ]
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$30 C/B
Hodder and Stoughton 1984 first edition, 118pp.
[#5761 ]
A young adult story about a magnificent Stag who is hunted by wild dogs, a deer farmer, and a determined deer stalker.
The finale of the trilogy Fawn, Stag and White Patch
Illustrated by Bob Kerr.
ISBN 0340279893
deer, hunting, fiction, story
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$25 C/B
Hodder and Stoughton 1981 first edition, 144pp.
[#5067 ]
Hunting Game Birds, Small and Feral Game in New Zealand.
Hints on gamebirds, waterfowl, small game and wild goats and sheep.
Where to find them and what guns to use.
ISBN 9780340519665
small game, hunting, gamebirds, shotguns
VG- hardback with pictorial boards.
$15 C/C
Hodder 1990 first edition, 246pp.
[#5280 ]
Jonesy was there in the earliest days of Government deer-culling, starting in Ruatahuna in 1954, as a government shooter.
Choppers had not been invented so it was tent camps, fixed wing airdrops four months apart, run out of anything and it was a long walk out for more supplies.
Four bob a tail for deer, three shillings and sixpence for pigs, seven quid a week retainer.
He was in the thick of it, trying hard to be good enough so he would not be shipped out, like so many were, that could not make the grade.
Learning his bush craft and the ways of deer and pigs, hunting from fly camps and department huts.
Spending his days in the bush hunting the elusive deer and pigs that he was paid to kill.
ISBN 9781877256660
hunting, deer stalking, deer cullers
VG+ softback, small name to inside of front cover.
$40 C/B
The Halcyon Press 2007 First edition, 200pp.
[#5212 ]
White hunter after various big game as well as much African anthropological information from Mendjim Mey country in the French Cameroons.
Corgi GA855
G+ paperback with light creasing to covers, aged paper stock.
$15 A/B
Corgi 1960 first thus, 286pp + plates.[PB1523 ]
The Story of an African hunter, John Alfred Jordan.
Jordan started his African adventure before the Boer War, and hunted Elephant for ivory, and crocodiles for pleasure.
Uganda, Belgian Congo, natives
G+ hardback with no jacket.
Some minor foxing.
$35 C/C
Nicholas Kaye 1956 first edition, 248pp. Illustrated
[#5366 ]
Descriptions and colour photography of game animals and their habitats in New Zealand. More in depth than its size and appearance would suggest.
VG hardback in G+ dust jacket with some wear and tears.
$10 B/B
Reed 1968, 112pp. [#3550 ]
G+ hardback with no dust jacket. Front hinge shows, a few small dots on contents page
$8 B/B
Reed 1968 first edition pictorial boards, 112pp. [#1126]
Joff Thomson was a Government employed deer culler in remote areas of the South Island. This book focuses on his time hunting red deer, but he also tells of wild-goat hunting in Marlborough and of successful Wapiti hunting expeditions in Southland's great lakes and fiords.
hunting, big game, first edition, signed copy
VG hardback with no dust jacket. Former owner name to free end paper, and the author's signature to the title page. RARE author signed copy.
$195 C/C
AH and AW Reed November 1952 First Edition, 194pp + plates.
[#3560 ]
Tustin recounts his quest to find any remnants of moose in Fiordland. He believes he has camera footage and other evidence of their continuing prescence.
ISBN9780958372305
hunting, new zealand, fiordland, Herrick creek, Wet Jacket Arm
VG- softback with rubbed covers
$20 C/C
Wild South Books 1998, 224pp.
[#3461 ]
An Understanding of New Zealand's Wetland Gamebirds.
Gamebird hunting in New Zealand.
ISBN0959760903
keywords
VG- softback with worn wrappers.
$10 C/B
Wetland Press 1981 first edition, 123pp photo illustrations in text.
[#4279 ]
VG- softback with worn wrappers, scattered pencil annotation.
$10 C/B
Wetland Press 1981 first edition, 123pp photo illustrations in text.
[#240 ]