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Macmillan & Co , 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Fair/Poor. Reprint. 350 Pages. The jacket is shelf rubbed and edge worn, with closed tears and chips along the edges. There is a large chip on the top front of the jacket. It is protected in cellophane. The boards are strong and sturdy. Internally, Minor foxing, lightly tanned pages. There is a previous owners inscription on the front end page. clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*05/05/2022. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

New York: MacMillan, 1947. reprint. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback in original cloth xv + 350pp., b/w pls., appendix, Neat ownership signature & cloth slightly faded at spine o/w nice copy of a particularly nice well-illustrated edition

LONDON: MACMILLAN AND COMPANY, 1934. REPRINT . Hardcover. Very Good. Scarce early edition in original publisher's cloth, clean and tidy. Light marking to boards. Clean throughout. Very good.

London: MacMillan and Co., 1952 VG/VG.12mo. original red cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked, occ. spots and offsetting, prev. owner's name to FFE, upper hinge slackening) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed & nicked, discreet closed tear and label removal mark to upper panel); pp. xvi, 352 (last blank), with illustrations. A 'St. Martin's Press' label to spine indicates that this copy was intended for the US market. A very good copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG/VG.

St. Martin's Street, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. First Edition, October, 1907. Fourth printing, January, 1908. The original larger heavy volume measuring approx. 6" x 8 3/4". Navy cloth boards, gilt cover design and spine titles, moderate shelf, corner, edge wear, crease. Front cover features dynamic roaring lion in gilt with circular borders. Pages generally very good. Front blank endpaper removed. Ominous frontispiece, with fine tissue guard intact, of lions' heads on black b.g.: "Heads of Eight Lions Shot by the Author in British East Africa." Bind good, moderate cant; hinges reinforced. Scarce good early printing. Profusely illustrated with photographs throughout. Features a preface by the author and foreword by F. C. Selous. Appendix at back with details on hunting in Africa for the sportsman. A turn-of-the-century account by a railway engineer working in East Africa of his encounters with man-eating lions. Printed by Richard Clay and Sons,… Leer más

1921. Macmillan and Co., 1921. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt vignette of lion to front, gilt lettering to spine; xx + pp. 338, with a photographic frontispiece, and illustrations throughout; very good. Provenance: bookplate of Anita Loos (1888-1981), actress, writer of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and unexpected owner of this classic on big game hunting. New edition. "No lion story I have ever heard or read equals in its long-sustained and dramatic interest the story of the Tsavo man-eaters as told by Col. Patterson."(foreword by F.C. Selous). Czech: "This has been in print almost continuously since 1907." Czech p. 126.

St. Martin's Street, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907. Stated at copyright: "First Edition, October, 1907. Reprinted November and December, 1907." Rare third printing from first year of publication. The original larger heavy volume measuring approx. 6" x 8 3/4". Navy cloth boards, gilt cover design and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, rub, bump. Front cover features dynamic roaring lion in gilt with circular borders. Pages very good, clean. Moderate toning, discoloration at endpapers. Stylish antiquarian signature at front endpaper: "H. T. Gwen Reipham." Ominous frontispiece, with original tissue guard, of lion's heads on black b.g.: "Heads of Eight Lions Shot by the Author in British East Africa". Bind good, moderate cant. Rare near very good third printing from first year of publication. Profusely illustrated with photographs throughout. Features a preface by the author and foreword by F. C. Selous. Appendix at back with… Leer más

St. Martin's Street, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907. 1907 at title page. No additional printings denoting a first edition from MacMillan; true first printing of October, 1907. The original larger heavy volume measuring approx. 6" x 8 3/4". Navy cloth boards, crisp gilt cover design and spine titles, moderate shelf, corner wear, bump. Front cover features dynamic roaring lion in gilt with circular borders. Protected in (unadhered) thick clear sleeve. Pages generally very good; moderate toning at endps., few small areas of discoloration at several leaves. Ominous frontispiece of lion's heads on black b.g.: "Heads of Eight Lions Shot by the Author in British East Africa". Bind good, square; hinges intact. Rare near very good first printing. Profusely illustrated with photographs throughout. Features a preface by the author and foreword by F. C. Selous. Appendix at back with details on hunting in Africa for the sportsman. An account by a railway… Leer más