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Lot 138
[ASIA-HUNTING] CLARK, JAMES LIPPITT. To the Mountain Tops of Central Asia for Ibex.
New York: 1961. Typed manuscript in faux leather three-ring folder in clamshell case. 8 1/2 x 11 inches (21 x 28 cm); title, 8 pp., 6 original photographs (in duplicate, mounted and unmounted) of the region and the animals, plus two photographs of Clark's art, one of a drawing of ibex, the other of his famous sculpture of the same; with two rejection letters on Sports Illustrated and Field and Stream letterheads. Fine.
Prepared in manuscript by Clark in 1961 for magazine publication but rejected, this expedition to the Tien Shan mountains was undertaken in 1926 with William J. Morden, also of the American Museum of Natural History, a redoubtable explorer. Clark (who was Theodore Roosevelt's taxidermist and for many years in charge of mounting the Museum's specimens and preparing the dioramas) was a renowned hunter and the author of several books on the subject. Both Sports Illustrated and Field and Stream felt that too many years had elapsed since the expedition, but it makes interesting reading regardless.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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