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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Major Arthur Radclyffe DUGMORE (1870-1955)

Camera Adventures in the African Wilds, Being an Account of a four Months' Expedition in British East Africa

with an original self-portrait and a related letter from the author

Published: Doubleday Page & Co, New York, 1910

Edition: 1st American Edition

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Camera Adventures in the African Wilds, Being an Account of a four Months' Expedition in British East Africa, for the Purpose of securing Photographs of the Game from Life. With map and reproductions of numerous photographs from life by the author.

New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1910. Quarto. Pp. [i-]xix[-xx; 1-]233. Frontispiece, full-page map, numerous half-tone plates. Extra-illustrated with an original drawing by the author, dated 18 Feb 1918, and a related letter, dated March 21 1918, and envelope mounted at the rear, three newspaper cuttings mounted at front. (Some toning)

Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt,  with lion vignette on upper cover (some scuffing and bumping to extremities, light damage to front inner hinge).

Provenance: Mrs. Franklin Farrel (Tower Hill, Ansonia, Ct., letter from the author).

Inscribed copy of the first US edition, with a letter from the author, and a charming original self-portrait caricature of the author photographing a lion, unaware that right behind him sits a second lion watching the proceedings.

Czech p.53

  • Binding Condition: Acceptable
  • Overall Condition: Acceptable
  • Size: 10 3/4 x 8in; 274 x 203mm
  • Sold By: Shadowrock Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Adam Langlands
  • Country: United States
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