The Tiger's Claw.

London, Burke, 1956. 1st Edition. 22 pages. Elegantly bound in yellow half leather with marbled boards. Internally fine. Frontis map of Korea/Manchuria. Black and white ills. Scarce

George (Yuri or Jerzy) Mihailovich Yankovsky (Russian: Юрий Михайлович Янковский) (5 June 1879 - 13 June 1956) was a Russian tiger hunter in Manchuria, a son of the Polish settler in the Russian Far East, Michał Jankowski. He was known as one of the most prolific hunters of Amur tigers and wrote a book on tiger hunting in 1940 called Полвека охоты на тигров [Half a Century of Tiger Hunting]. The family moved from Sidemi, in Primorsky Krai across the border into northern Korea following in 1922. After the Soviets entered northern Korea, he was arrested in 1945 and sent to the Siberian Gulags where he died. His life became better known to the English speaking world after a biography, The Tiger's Claw, written by English actress in Korea, Mary Linley Taylor, was published in 1956.