An inveterate reader with wide-ranging interests, Jim Fender has spent a lifetime collecting and reading books in a wider variety of areas. In many senses a reader of the “old school” (someone with wide-ranging interests and a willingness to delve deeply into those interests, he has spent a lifetime in the warm embrace of books. The end result has been a carefully cataloged library running to many thousand volumes and covering a wide range of subjects, many of them of compelling interest to devoted readers of Sporting Classics. Over time we will be offering for sale volumes in those subject areas. Fender is obviously a keen reader and also of note is the fact that he is the author of a qu9intet of books, “The Frost Saga.” The novels, set in the era of the Revolutionary War, have solid underpinnings of historical fact as they chronicle the adventures of a fascinating New England privateer captain. Fender has also contributed numerous articles to respected publications such as Shooting Sportsman, Double Gun Journal, and others, so he’s a man who seriously researched and read about the subjects on which he wrote.
One of this retired Department of Defense legal counsel’s areas of special interest has been Africa, and his eclectic and interesting holdings in this field are currently on offer. They are so extensive that the works of Africana will likely be offered in multiple lists as they are cataloged, described, and photographed. Books in other fields of interest will follow in due course. For the present here’s something for anyone interested in Africa—books by the great hunters, volumes dealing with exploration, some of the finest literary efforts to come out of the Dark Continent, the efforts of notable authors of fiction, and much more. Prices range as widely as the subject matter, but the sum of the matter is that here’s an opportunity to pick up obscure items at a bargain price or perhaps fill in a special blank space on your shelves with an elusive book. Virtually all of the books carry the owner’s signature on the front endpaper along with a blind stamp, and that information is not included in the individual descriptions. All of the listings that follow are one of a kind.