A WHITE KING IN EAST AFRICA

First US Edition: xv, 320 pages, photograph of the author as frontispiece, 1 map, 11 black and white photographic plates, original red cloth with gilt titling on spine and upper cover, nick in the fore edge of the upper cover, a very good copy.

Signed by Edward H. Davis, June 1913, on the front free endpaper.

‘Edward Davis was a collector who lived near Mesa Grande outside of San Diego. He collected ethnographic objects from southern California for George G. Heye's Museum of the American Indian in New York’

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Czech (Dr. Kenneth P.) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999 (Second enlarged edition, Trophy Room Press, 2011), page 33, describes this as the American edition of John Boyes’ King of the Wa-Kikuyu, published in London in 1911. ‘This is an excellent African adventure story but with only a few pages of hunting for rhinoceros, leopard and lion in British East Africa. Boyes became the virtual leader of the Kikuyu tribe and relates his observations of the people and intertribal warfare.’