Lot Details
Lot 117
BEARD, PETER The End of the Game.
New York: Viking Press, 1965. First edition. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. 11 x 8 inches (28 x 20 cm); 256 pp., illustrated. Light edgewear to jacket with a one inch tear to top edge of front panel near the spine, price clipped, cloth lightly toned at head and tail of boards with very minor edgewear, small stain to front endpaper, contents otherwise clean; Together with Longing For Darkness. Kamante's Tales From Out Of Africa. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First edition, first printing. Publisher's boards, dust jacket. Light edgewear to jacket and boards, faint toning along top edge of jacket, minor bumping to spine, altogether a well-preserved copy.
Two first edition books by the artist, author, diarist, photographer and socialite Peter Beard. They include his first book, The End of the Game, which documented a changing East Africa and cemented the author's reputation as an artist and conservationist, as well as his homage to Blixen's classic memoir Out of Africa, but this time as told many years later by her close friend and cook, Kamante Batura.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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