Lot Details
Lot 211
JOHNSON, OSA I Married Adventure. The Lives and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson.
Philadelphia, New York, etc.: J. B. Lippincott Company, [1940]. Limited edition, number 189 of 520 copies, inscribed by the author. Publisher's ivory pictorial cloth backed in red cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, with original glassine wrappers laid into original box, unopened. 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches; double-page vignette title page, plates after photographs, with 16 art prints from the Martin Johnson Photograph Collection in original envelope laid in. Box toned with wear to corners, glassine wrappers torn but present, envelope torn with some loss, art prints lightly toned, text volume in fine, unopened condition.
A superb copy of Osa Johnson's tale of love and adventure in Africa, in the original box and with the original glassine wrappers present, as well as 16 prints from the Collection of Martin Johnson Photographs in the original envelope. Inscribed "Best African Wishes / Osa Johnson" on limitation page. Czech, Africa, p. 145.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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