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Auction #134 begins on 01 Oct 2026

Ofcansky (Thomas P.)

PARADISE LOST: A HISTORY OF GAME PRESERVATION IN EAST AFRICA - limited edition of 50 copies

Published: West Virginia University Press, Morgantown, 2002

Edition: De Luxe First Edition

Reserve: $150

Approximately:

Estimate: $180

Bidding opens: 1 Oct 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 8 Oct 16:30 GMT

Ships from: South Africa

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This edition is limited to 50 copies, each individually hand bound in premium dark green natural grain goatskin. Marbled endpapers. Signed by the author Thomas Ofcansky and the binder Matt Eggleston. Original photograph of large tusked elephant as frontispiece and signed by the photographer.

xxiii + 134pp. Illustrated.

'This book is an expansion of Thomas Ofcansky's Doctoral dissertation. It is full of well researched detail. It gives a picture of the workings of the early administrators and shows how East African parks and wild areas came to be what they are today. This makes the book of interest to photographic tourists and hunters alike. It contains numerous footnotes and an excellent bibliography.

  • Binding Condition: Fine
  • Overall Condition: Fine
  • Size: 4to.


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