Lot Details
Lot 107
DAY, J. WENTWORTH Sport in Egypt.
London: Country Life Limited, [1938]. First edition. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches; xviii, 151 pp.; frontispiece, plates, half-title. Jacket with surface soiling and some losses, cloth tips lightly bumped, gift inscription to front free endpaper.
"Day serves more as editor than author in this compendium of sport compiled inthe halcyon days prior to World War II. Chapters include sailing on the Nile, big game fishing, duck and dove shooting and the like. There are, however, two sections devoted to big game hunting. Sir T. W. Russell contributed a chapter on hunting Nubian ibex and gazelle int he hill country near the Red Sea. In addition, Alec Ralli wrote of hunting Dorcas gazelle near the Libyan Desert, with mention of sportin gtrips after Barbary sheep and ibex" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 76.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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