Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller
Item #46307 Elephants and Other Big Game Studies from The Times. Marcuswell Maxwell.
Elephants and Other Big Game Studies from The Times
Elephants and Other Big Game Studies from The Times
Elephants and Other Big Game Studies from The Times
Elephants and Other Big Game Studies from The Times
Elephants and Other Big Game Studies from The Times

Elephants and Other Big Game Studies from The Times

London: Times Publishing Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. 2 leaves, 28 plates. Original gray textured cloth with gilt-stamped lettering and publisher's device on cover, gilt lettering on spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, protected by modern mylar. Series of camera studies of elephants and other wildlife in Kenya. "From the photographic point of view, I consider the lion the most pleasing, the rhino the most interesting, and the buffalo the most exciting. But the elephant possesses all these attributes in a high degree, and, in addition, is extremely amusing and intelligent." (Maxwell). Short introduction by the photographer followed by twenty-eight pages with fascinating sepia-toned photographs of African big game, with captions. Inside flaps of dustjacket with Times advertisements. Dustjacket with some wear along edges, small chips, medium at head and tail of spine, rubbed. Binding with very light wear along edges. Dustjacket in overall good-, binding in very good, interior in near fine condition. g- to near fine. Item #46307

Price: $175.00

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