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Author: Shorthose, Captain W. T.
Title: Sport and Adventure in Africa: A Record of Twelve Years of Big Game Hunting, Campaigning & Travel in the Wilds of Tropical Africa
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: L.B. Lippincott
Date: 1923
Item # : 172497
Sale Number   331
Lot Number   198
Sale Name    
Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/11/2006
Price realized   $ 138
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Description:
316 pp. Frontispiece and 16 photo plates. Folding map at rear. Errata slip. 8½x5½, orange cloth. First US Edition.
Author was an officer in the King's African Rifles in East Africa in the second decade of the twentieth century. Well illustrated with photos of trophys of the hunt as well as native peoples.
Condition:
Nick to cloth of spine into first word of title; slight wear to spine ends; bookplate to front pastedown, else very good.
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