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Auction #120 begins on 16 Jan 2025

Taylor (John)

PONDORO - LAST OF THE IVORY HUNTERS

Published: Frederick Muller Ltd., London, 1956

Edition: First UK Edition

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $50/60

Bidding opens: 16 Jan 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 23 Jan 16:30 GMT

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First UK Edition: 275 pages, frontispiece portrait and 25 photographic plates, original green cloth faded, foxing, a good copy.

Czech (Kenneth) Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 -1999, page, 'With this work Taylor stepped away for the more technical aspects of big game rifles to describing his numerous adventures in Africa. He collected elephant, eland, leopard, buffalo, hippo and a wide variety of other game in Nyasaland and other locales. "Pondoro" means "Lion" in Chinyungwe.'

  • Size: 8vo (220 x 145mm)


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