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Auction #119 begins on 14 Nov 2024

Sommer (Francois)

MAN AND BEAST IN AFRICA

Published: Herbert Jenkins, London, 1953

Edition: First English Edition

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $60

Bidding opens: 14 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 21 Nov 16:30 GMT

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Published in London by Herbert Jenkins 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth covers. An edge worn pictorial dust jacket. First British printing. With a Foreword by Ernest Hemingway. Translated from the French by Edward Fitzgerald. 206 pp. Illustrated with sketches and b&w photographs. 

Sommer began as a hunter with guns and finished as a photographer.

Contents: The Professional Big-Game Hunters; A Few Personalities; The Distribution of Africa's Fauna; The Elephant; The Lion; The Rhinoceros; The Buffalo; The Derby Eland; The Dangers of Big-Game Hunting; Big-Game Rifles and Ammunition; Big-Game Hunting Today; and Big-Game Hunting of Tomorrow.

  • Jacket Condition: Fair
  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo (240 x 160 mm)


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