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Author: Gray, Prentiss N.
Title: African Game-Lands: A Graphic Itinerary in Kenya and Along the Livingstone Trail in Tanganyika, Belgian Congo, and Angola
Place: Missoula, MT
Publisher: The Boone and Crockett Club
Date: [1995]
Item # : 169622
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   105
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 230
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Description:
xxx, 196 pp. Foreword by Theodore J. Holsten, Jr. Prologue by Susan C. Reneau. Introduction by Anthony A. Dyer. Illustrated from numerous photographs, mostly from old sources and most are full-page; plus a color reproduction bird print plate before half-title. 4to. Full crushed maroon morocco, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's slipcase with cloth edges. No. 20 of 50 hand-numbered copies. Special Deluxe Limited Edition.
Signed by the author's son, the editor, The Boone and Crockett Club President, and the editor/chair of the Editorial and Publications Committee (4 total signatures), all on the limitation page. The extra full color bird plate (before half-title) is of halcyon albiventris prentissgrayi, the bird discovered on Mr. Gray’s expedition, which was named after him and is included in this special deluxe edition only. Publisher's full-page printed prospectus/ order form, laid in.
Condition:
Fine.
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