Beard peter hill 1938 (4 risultati)

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1990). (1975) 1990 2nd edition. Paperback with flaps. Folio (205 x 306mm). Pages (264) not numbered. Illustrated with contemporary & b/w photographs & illustrations, & paintings / drawings by Kamante. Light use & fading to covers, front flap price-clipped, some browning o/w very good. Kamante, servant and friend of Karen Blixen, tells the story of Karen Farm in his own words. Handwritten by his sons and illustrated with his own paintings and with Karen Blixen's and Peter Beard's wonderful photographs. . Illus. With Photos (illustratore).…

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Paperback, 1977). (1963) 1977 Doubleday revised and updated edition. Paperback. Large quarto paperback (244 x 273mm). Pp280. B/w photographs and illustrations throughout, bibliography. Card covers without flaps, sepia photograph of elephant seen from front, title in white, spine untitled, publisher's name in white. Quite used but a good-plus copy. "This is a revised and updated edition of the book published under the same title by Viking Press in 1965." Beard's unique style and startling photographs and illustrations form an exciting and memorable record of the last days of the big game hunters. Includes "A twenty year illustrated record of the great pachyderm (Loxodonta africana) and man"; tales of Karen Dinesen von Blixen, Philip Percival, J A Hunter, Col Richard Meinertzhagen and Ewart S Grogan; "the never-before-published, hand written diaries of Colonel John Henry Patterson, single-minded pursuer of the man-eaters of Tsavo." Chapters include: Introduction; Prologue; The White Mountain; A snake from the coast; In the glare of the game's eye; Game control; Beside the carcass of a beast; Nor dread nor hope attend; Epilogue. . Profusely Illustrated (illustratore).…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 230, [50] p. : chiefly ill., ports. ; 28 cm. Subjects; Mammalia Loxodonta africana Big game hunting Endangered animals Africa History. Blixen, Karen Portrait. Lindstrom, Ingrid Portrait. Finch Hatton, Denys Portrait. Kinyanjui Chief Portrait. Sendeyo Portrait. Blixen, Bror Baron Portrait. Boyes, John Portrait. Patterson, J H Biography Portrait. Grogan, Ewart Scott Biography Portrait. Hunter, John Alexander Portrait. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 230, [50] p. : chiefly ill., ports. ; 28 cm. Subjects; Mammalia Loxodonta africana Big game hunting Endangered animals Africa History. Blixen, Karen Portrait. Lindstrom, Ingrid Portrait. Finch Hatton, Denys Portrait. Kinyanjui Chief Portrait. Sendeyo Portrait. Blixen, Bror Baron Portrait. Boyes, John Portrait. Patterson, J H Biography Portrait. Grogan, Ewart Scott Biography Portrait. Hunter, John Alexander Portrait. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg. …