Lot Details
Lot 169
[GORILLAS] Three volumes.
Comprising: BURBRIDGE, BEN. Gorilla. Tracking and Capturing the Ape-Man of Africa. New York and London: The Century Co., [1928]. First edition. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth, map endpapers. Frontispiece, plates, half-title. Slight lean, extremities lightly bumped, interior fine; a copy of the UK edition. London, Bombay, and Sydney: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1928]. First UK edition. Publisher's black cloth, map endpapers. Extremities bumped, foxing throughout; and JOHNSON, MARTIN. Congorilla. Adventures with the Pigmies and Gorillas in Africa. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket, photographic endpapers. Frontispiece, plates, half-title. Jacket spine sunned with loss to foot, large loss to lower panel and smaller losses to edges, cloth tips bumped, scattered foxing.
For Burbridge see Czech, Africa, p. 44 and for Johnson see p. 144.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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