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Auction #124 begins on 03 Jul 2025

Makepeace (Gordon)

SAFARI SAM

Published: Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1933

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $40

Approximately:

Estimate: $60/70

Bidding opens: 3 Jul 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 10 Jul 16:30 GMT

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First Edition: 254 pages, frontispiece portrait, 2 illustrations, blue cloth, spine titled in white, book plate on front paste-down endpaper, dust jacket chipped at the top of the spine and now preserved in a protector.

Czech (Kenneth) Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 -1999, Page 179: Makepeace, a journalist, recorded the experiences of “Safari Sam” during a long interview. Sam evidently spent much time in the Northern Rhodesian brush country and relates incidents of encounters with rhino, lion, leopard and crocodile, as well a conversation with a veteran elephant hunter. The frontispiece and plates reveal a bright-eyed Sam in various poses.

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 8vo (220 x 150mm)


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