Lot Details
Lot 289
[PEASE, ALFRED, ed.] Some Account of George Grey and His Work in Africa.
London: privately printed at the Chiswick Press, 1914. First edition. Publisher's cloth-backed paper-covered boards. 8 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches; v, 119 pp.; frontispiece, full-page map, half-title. Spine darkened, boards worn and stained, text block loose but holding, scattered foxing, some pencil marginalia, ownership signature of author F. E. Studt to front free endpaper.
Uncommon in the trade. "Grey was a hero of the Matabele Rebellion and, later, a special commissioner in Swaziland and Katanga. An excellent game shot and explorer, he was noted for his bicycle trips into the interior. His friends and contemporaries contributed chapters on their recollections of him. Most important to the African hunting bibliophile is the chapter by Alfred Pease detailing Grey's fatal encounter with lions when he failed to stop a charging lioness with a .280 Ross rifle" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 112.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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