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Lot 252
McCUTCHEON, JOHN T. In Africa. Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country.
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1910. Limited edition, no. 50 of 250 copies, signed by the author. Publisher's cloth-backed boards, in original cloth dust jacket. 9 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches; [xiv], 402 pp.; frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, half-title, limitation page. Light fraying to edges of jacket, extremities bumped, occasional short tears to deckled fore-edge.
"A cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune, the author joined Teddy Roosevelt's famous hunting expedition to East Africa. Stalking with Carl Akeley, he bagged elephant, lion and a variety of plains game. McCutcheon writes with a wry sense of humor, and provides visual commentary through a host of cartoons caricaturing episodes of camp and sporting life" (Czech). Czech, Africa, pp. 188-189.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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