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Auction #120 begins on 16 Jan 2025

Lyell (Denis D.)

AFRICAN ADVENTURE

Letters from Famous Big-Game Hunters

Published: E.P. Dutton and Company Inc., New York, 1935

Edition: First US Edition

Reserve: $100

Approximately:

Estimate: $125/150

Bidding opens: 16 Jan 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 23 Jan 16:30 GMT

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First US Edition: 270 pages, frontispiece, 10 black & white photographic plates, original light brown cloth titled in green on the spine and decorated with a spear on the upper cover, a good copy.

 Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, page 175, ‘The represents an accumulation of letters spanning thirty years the author received from big game hunters including F.C. Selous, C.H. Stigand, R.J. Cunninghame, T.A. Barns, Martin Ryan, Alfred E. Pease, J. Stevenson Hamilton, J.A. Hunter, Abel Chapman and many others.’

  • Size: 8vo (220 x 140 mm)


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