Kambaku!

Revised Limited Edition, 1986; No. 411 of 1000; Amwell Press, Clinton, New Jersey. Octavo 14.5 x 21.5cm, xii 457pp. Full brown leather in tan cloth slipcase. Gilt elephant to front and gilt titles and decorations to spine; sewn in ribbon marker. Signed by Harry Manners and Jim Rikhoff. Illustrated with original colour frontispiece of elephants by Harry Manners and a special photographic section from the author's private collection, plus map at rear. Foreword by Tony Sanchez-Arino.

“This is the enduring life story of Harry Manners, one of the greatest elephant hunters of all time. Harry Manners was born in Grootfontein, South Africa, on 17 November 1917 to an English father and a German mother. When young Harry was six, his family moved to Lourenço Marques, then the capital of Portuguese East Africa, now Mozambique, where his father worked as a shipping agent. Harry shot his first elephant when still a teenager using an old 10.75mm Mauser rifle, and he was so successful-the elephant had tusks of over eighty pounds per side-that this set him on his course for life.He began his career in 1937 and continued until 1953 when commercial ivory hunting was closed in Mozambique. With his beloved .375 H&H he hunted buffaloes for meat and elephants for ivory during this period. Thereafter, he was the first professional hunter to be employed by Safarilandia, the company owned by the famous hunter Werner von Alvensleben. During the years Harry was a professional elephant hunter, he shot approximately 1,000 specimens. Among his many magnificent trophies was an incredible pair of tusks that weighed 185 and 183 pounds, the fourth largest African tusks ever recorded.”

Condition: Book and slipcase are near fine.