Sale 19JJ03 | Lot 208

JOHNSON, MARTIN Lion. African Adventure with the King of Beasts.

Catalogue: Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

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Lot 208
JOHNSON, MARTIN Lion. African Adventure with the King of Beasts.
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1929. First edition. Publisher's red cloth gilt, pictorial endpapers. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; xiii, 281 pp.; folding map, frontispiece and plates after photographs, vignette title page, half-title. Spine ends worn, endpapers lightly toned, bookplate to front pastedown.
"A popular title of its day that went through many printings. Martin and wife, Osa, followed, photographed and eventually bagged a few of the big cats in East Africa. The first chapter, on the dangers of lion hunting, is perhaps the best" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 144.


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Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11am EDT