Lot Details
Lot 74
BURGER, JOHN F. Horned Death.
Huntington, West Virginia: Standard Publications, 1947. First edition. Publisher's cloth in original glassine wrapper. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; [xi], 342 pp.; frontispiece, plates, half-title. Wrapper with tears and chips, minor browning to endpapers at gutter, else fine.
"An Afrikaner, Burger hunting throughout Central Africa, particularly for buffalo which he had become well acquainted with while serving as a meat hunter for troops in Africa during the Great War. His narrative spans several decades, encompassing exploits from the Lado Enclave to the Belgian Congo, Tanganyika and Northern Rhodesia. There is also a chapter on hunting man-eating lions in the Mahenga District of Tanganyika" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 45.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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