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Author: Foran, Major W. Robert
Title: The Elephant Hunters of the Lado
Place: Clinton, NJ
Publisher: Amwell Press
Date: [1981]
Item # : 172213
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   89
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:
xxi, 312 pp. Foreword by Anthony Dyer. Original Preface by Capt. C.R.S. Pitman. Illustrated with drawings and a color frontispiece by Bob Kuhn. Also, photographs from Mr. Dyer's private collection. 9x6, gilt-decorated black leather, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's slipcase. No. 55 of 1000 hand-numbered copies.
Signed by Anthony Dyer (Administrator and Last President of the East African Professional Hunters’ Association) and Jim Rikhoff (President of the National Sporting Fraternity Limited) on the limitation leaf. A well-written and exciting book on early East Africa/ Kenya, which is where Tony & Rose Dyer still live today. Considered the author’s best book on Africa, which was only discovered after his death among his manuscripts. Sixth book in the African Hunting Heritage Collection series.
Condition:
Fine in fine slipcase.
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