Lot Details
Lot 240
LYELL, DENIS D. The African Elephant and its Hunters.
London: Heath Cranton, 1924. First edition. Publisher's red cloth gilt. 8 5/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 221 pp.; frontispiece and plates after photographs, half-title. Spine ends lightly bumped, else a very handsome copy.
"This excellent book includes the author's adventures hunting elephant in various parts of Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa: 'An elephant often screams when he comes for a hunter, but not always, for I have seen one come on without making a sound except with their feet as they rustled through the grass.' Of additional interest, are his chapters on early elephant hunters, recent (ca. early 20th century) hunters, and even a passage on hunters killed by wild game" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 174.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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