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Auction #118 begins on 03 Oct 2024

Wilbur Smith

WHEN THE LION FEEDS (1964) - author's FIRST novel

Published: Heinemann, London, 1964

Edition: First Edition

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Publisher's green hardcover binding with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated panorama dust jacket showing the "long grass" from a feeding lion's perspective.

459pp.

A true first edition, first impression (not "Reprinted Before Publication") of the late great author's epic FIRST novel.

Binding is solid. Boards are clean and bright. Pages white and contents clean apart from tape ghosts on the front and rear endpapers and a contemporary Xmas gift inscription on the front endpaper. Price clipped jacket is bright with the red titles on front panel and spine being uniform in colour with none of the usual fading. 

  • Jacket Condition: Very Good
  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Sold By: Rare Paper
  • Contact Person: Armandt Marais
  • Country: South Africa
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