THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO AND OTHER EAST AFRICAN ADVENTURES by LIEUT-COL J H PATTERSON, DSO - 1911

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London: Macmillan, 1928. Caravan Library edition. Dark red cloth, spine faded, name and address on endpapers. Illustrated. Author went to Mombasa in 1898 to build the Uganda railway. This involved shooting a number of lions and at least one rhino, among others. . New Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket.

Paperback / softback. New.

Macmillan & Co , 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Fair/Poor. Reprint. 350 Pages. The jacket is shelf rubbed and edge worn, with closed tears and chips along the edges. There is a large chip on the top front of the jacket. It is protected in cellophane. The boards are strong and sturdy. Internally, Minor foxing, lightly tanned pages. There is a previous owners inscription on the front end page. clean and complete. Tightly bound. r*05/05/2022. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

LONDON: MACMILLAN AND COMPANY, 1934. REPRINT . Hardcover. Very Good. Scarce early edition in original publisher's cloth, clean and tidy. Light marking to boards. Clean throughout. Very good.

New York: MacMillan, 1947. reprint. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback in original cloth xv + 350pp., b/w pls., appendix, Neat ownership signature & cloth slightly faded at spine o/w nice copy of a particularly nice well-illustrated edition

London: MacMillan and Co., 1952 VG/VG.12mo. original red cloth gilt (a trifle rubbed & marked, occ. spots and offsetting, prev. owner's name to FFE, upper hinge slackening) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed & nicked, discreet closed tear and label removal mark to upper panel); pp. xvi, 352 (last blank), with illustrations. A 'St. Martin's Press' label to spine indicates that this copy was intended for the US market. A very good copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG/VG.

London: Macmillan, 1914. First Edition. Octavo. Frontispiece, 351 pages. Later printing. A book that led Teddy Roosevelt to invite him to the White House and has influenced hunters and writers for over a century. Paul Theroux and a host of modern readers refer to it again and again. Patterson writes with cold reality: "I felt at once that this was a device to lure me into the narrow part of the ravine where, with gangs in front of me and behind me, there would be no escape; still, I thought I would see the adventure through, whatever came of it, so I accompanied the jemadar up the gully." Fiction could not do better than this which influenced Kipling and others in the early 20th Century. A very good copy bound in dark blue cloth centrally stamped in gilt depicting a tiger's head within a double gilt ring, spine lettering gilt, top edge gilt, two bumperd corners, chipping to spine ends.Previous owner's nameGeorge W. Rhoad[from ?] Kenya Colony.

St. Martin's Street, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. First Edition, October, 1907. Fourth printing, January, 1908. The original larger heavy volume measuring approx. 6" x 8 3/4". Navy cloth boards, gilt cover design and spine titles, moderate shelf, corner, edge wear, crease. Front cover features dynamic roaring lion in gilt with circular borders. Pages generally very good. Front blank endpaper removed. Ominous frontispiece, with fine tissue guard intact, of lions' heads on black b.g.: "Heads of Eight Lions Shot by the Author in British East Africa." Bind good, moderate cant; hinges reinforced. Scarce good early printing. Profusely illustrated with photographs throughout. Features a preface by the author and foreword by F. C. Selous. Appendix at back with details on hunting in Africa for the sportsman. A turn-of-the-century account by a railway engineer working in East Africa of his encounters with man-eating lions. Printed by Richard Clay and Sons,… Read More

1921. Macmillan and Co., 1921. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt vignette of lion to front, gilt lettering to spine; xx + pp. 338, with a photographic frontispiece, and illustrations throughout; very good. Provenance: bookplate of Anita Loos (1888-1981), actress, writer of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and unexpected owner of this classic on big game hunting. New edition. "No lion story I have ever heard or read equals in its long-sustained and dramatic interest the story of the Tsavo man-eaters as told by Col. Patterson."(foreword by F.C. Selous). Czech: "This has been in print almost continuously since 1907." Czech p. 126.